Matthews™ Appoints Jimi Li as Chief Product and Technology Officer

NEW YORK, NY—Matthews™ announced today the appointment of Jimi Li as Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPTO). As CPTO, Li will lead Matthews™’ technology development strategy and oversee its centralized IT, product, and engineering divisions, uniting product development, software engineering, data scientists, analytics, and AI under a centralized technology organization. The appointment comes as Matthews™ continues to invest in and advance proprietary technology, data infrastructure, and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.

 

Li brings more than 20 years of experience leading technology and digital transformation across finance, retail, media, and professional services at organizations including GE Capital, L’Oreal, Coach, News Corp, and most recently served as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at ALM. During his tenure at ALM, Li led the company’s AI transformation, helping drive 40% profit growth while scaling its platform to support more than 10 million users globally.

 

“We are on the precipice of something special. We have begun to deliver real value to our agents, and through them our property owner clients, with augmentation of our technology stack that we have been rolling out over the past 12 months,” said Founder and CEO, Kyle Matthews. “Jimi will further accelerate and augment this value delivery, ensuring that not only Matthews™ maintains its place as the technology leader in the brokerage space, but that we widen the gap.”

 

“What attracted me to Matthews™ is the combination of an ambitious growth strategy, proprietary data, and a clear commitment to building technology around how brokers actually work,” said Li. “The opportunity is to bring those elements together: data, workflow and AI to make our professionals more productive, help them make better decisions, and ultimately deliver greater value to clients. Artemis has the potential to become an intelligent platform they increasingly rely on to do their best work. I’m incredibly excited to join the team and help build that future.”

 

In the last 12 months Matthews™ has delivered two proprietary technologies to its brokers, Artemis and Apollo, and Li will drive their continued development, while leading the firm toward a more connected, AI-native technology environment.

 

Artemis is Matthews™’ AI-driven CRM, combining real-time ownership, tenant, and comparable data with pipeline tracking, performance dashboards, and predictive recommendations to deliver actionable market intelligence throughout the deal process.

 

Apollo is Matthews™’ proprietary AI-powered brokerage platform, transforming property and transaction data into valuations, offering memorandums and marketing content while automating financial modeling, sales comparables, market narratives, and deal execution through real-time analytics.

 

Matthews™’ tech suite is built around a shared company-wide database, connecting data, intelligence, and transaction execution across the commercial real estate brokerage lifecycle. Together, these capabilities are designed to give Matthews™’ brokers greater market visibility and efficiency, enabling them to deliver faster, more informed advice and execution for clients.

 

“The pace of innovation coming out of the Valley is hard for anyone to keep up with, let alone real estate professionals, which is exactly why we went to the source,” said Matthews. “Jimi brings something rare to this moment — two decades leading technology at scale. He doesn’t just understand where AI is headed; he’s built it. That’s exactly the kind of leadership we need to take Matthews™ into an agentic, AI-native future.”

 

Li’s appointment reflects Matthews™’ continued investment in technology as a core component of its long-term growth strategy.  His leadership will focus on further developing these platforms, scaling the firm’s technology infrastructure, accelerating product innovation, and deepening AI integration across products, workflows, and internal systems.

“This cements us within the commercial real estate brokerage space as both the work smarter and work harder company. We are combining unique value-creating technology to help our professionals work smarter, and combining that with our historical industry-best work ethic,” Matthews concludes.

 

 

About Matthews™

Matthews™, a commercial real estate investment services and technology firm, holds recognition as an industry leader in investment sales, leasing, and debt and structured finance. Based out of Nashville, TN, and strategically positioned with over 1,000 agents and employees in 30 offices across the United States, Matthews™ continues to focus on expansion into new markets. For more information, please visit www.matthews.com.