Matt Lohstroh

Background

Matt Lohstroh is a Texas A&M finance major who, along with co-founder Brent Whitehead, founded Giga in 2019. He started building hands-on energy and data-center products in 2019, welding the first modular data center systems in East Texas, where he observed firsthand the inefficiencies plaguing the electrical infrastructure supply chain. Along the way, Giga's growth led to Forbes 30 Under 30 recognition for both founders.

Under Lohstroh's leadership, Giga Energy manufactures transformers, switchboards, and modular power systems with factories in Long Beach and Houston, delivering solutions to data centers, renewable energy, and industrial customers. The company achieved rapid revenue growth, surpassing $150 million in 2025, up from $800,000 in 2021. Lohstroh has stated the company's North Star is an IPO, intentionally building processes, margins and scale with that outcome in mind.

To address industry challenges including multiyear lead times and fragmented responsibility among legacy OEMs, brokers, and contractors, Lohstroh and his team solved for speed and accountability by vertically integrating: building reliable U.S. manufacturing, stocking critical inventory, originating and developing data center sites, and keeping engineering and support in-house. Recent achievements include delivering exceptionally complex engineering in five weeks for a major chip fabricator and delivering custom transformers in weeks for renewable energy projects that would have faced months of downtime under traditional timelines.

Career History

• Owner, Lawn Barber Landscaping (2011-2016)
• Co-Founder and CEO, Giga Energy (2019-present)

What Matt Lohstroh could bring to his current role as CEO of Giga Energy: Lohstroh's background combines entrepreneurial bootstrapping experience from his landscaping venture with deep operational knowledge of energy infrastructure supply-chain inefficiencies. His finance expertise and practical understanding of how traditional OEM and contractor models fail customers positions him to continue scaling Giga's vertically integrated model, particularly as demand for AI data center infrastructure accelerates. His documented ability to execute rapid engineering solutions and build domestic manufacturing capacity at scale suggests strong potential to achieve the company's stated IPO ambitions.