Chad Pierce

As a transformational technology leader and strategic partner to the business, with deep expertise in change management and stakeholder adoption, Chad Pierce excels in delivering impact within fast-paced, fast-changing growth environments. Leveraging a background that spans across real estate, facilities management, construction management, private equity, consulting, and media, he is known for his ability to rally teams during periods of immense change, ambiguity, and setbacks.  

Fast-tracked as an infrastructure IT and building technology leader at global coworking space provider, WeWork. Through the years, Chad was integral in ensuring the success of M&A integrations, carve-outs, and franchise TSA agreements, as WeWork embarked on an ambitious growth vision and constant evolution of assets and strategy.  

As Vice President of Technology, Architecture, and Solutions and acting CTO, Chad consistently demonstrated significant business impact via digital transformation, successful global deployments, and innovative AI solutioning that powered global expansion and hyper-scale, seamless customer experiences, game-changing sales enablement and data visibility, and critical collaboration across a globally distributed workforce.  

I have been fortunate enough not only participate in but be a critical piece to the success of two of the largest IT and construction endeavors in New York in recent history. First being full program management of the IT infrastructure both the build out and configuration for 1 World Trade Center's first tenant. 

Shortly after I joined WeWork as an early early employee and scaled technology for a company that grew from 900 employees and 10 locations to over 15,000 employees and 1,000 buildings, while ensuring best-in-class experience for 400,000+ members worldwide.  During this time, he scaled and led a 400+ global organization through a failed IPO, a full organizational restructuring as the company stabilized, and subsequent IPO via SPAC, all while maintaining operational excellence and positive team NPS

Prior to joining WeWork, I held progressive roles at Cisco VARs,, as Head of Transformation and Program Management doubled as a solution architect for high value clients such as Conde Nast, Hearst, Media General, NYCHA, Heath First, and SiriusXM.