Greg Hayes - Brand Innovators

Greg Hayes

Co-Founder & CEO, Branch Furniture

Greg is the Co-Founder and CEO ofBranch, a B2B startup disrupting the $50 billion office furniture industry. Prior to founding Branch, Greg ran Real Estate Strategy for flexible office space providerBreather,helping to expand and professionalize Breather’s portfolio across a dozen markets inthe US,Canada and the UK. The complexities involved in procuring office furniture for Breather’s portfolio contributed to the idea for Branch. Before his time at Breather, Greg spent five years at Oxford Properties Group, the real estate wing of the OMERS Pension Fund. At Oxford, Greg specialized in the leasing and management of a $2B Trophy and Class A office portfolio. Greg originally hails from Toronto, Canada, and holds a finance degree from the University of Western Ontario.