LOS ANGELES—Radoslav Zlatkov has joined Matthews Retail Group as chief financial and operations officer. The position is the first at the growing company. The former director of finance at Keurig Green Mountain Co., Zlatkov is known for helping to take Keurig from a $500 million company to $4.5 billion company. This career move is a transition back into real estate, which is the industry he studied at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business, where he had a dual concentration in investment and financial markets and real estate.

“After I helped build the hot system in the US marketplace for Keurig, I found that as a natural transition point to go look for another journey,” Zlatkov tells GlobeSt.com about the path that led him back into real estate. “At the point, a very large private company reached out to me, and I thought that was a great opportunity to go back and learn what a private company is like and how that functions. That company was Shark Ninja. There, I learned a lot, from high-growth business models to structuring contracts to feed that growth and having a focus on earnings. That was a fundamental step in my ability to come to Matthews Retail Group, because, here, we are a high-growth private company. I love this company because it is in an industry for which I went to college. The approach that the company wants to take is one that is very different and very innovative from the market and our competitors today in real estate specifically.”

Zlatkov plans to leverage his experience growing both public and private companies to fuel growth at Matthews Retail Group. In this role, he plans to head financial and business planning, treasury, run the financial analysis and underwriting department, as well as oversee administration and business operations.