Greg Trzcinski

President and CEO The Original Mattress Factory

Last Reviewed: September 27, 2026

Executive Summary

Greg Trzcinski is President and CEO of The Original Mattress Factory, the Cleveland-based company that makes mattresses in its own local factories and sells them directly through attached showrooms. His father, Ron Trzcinski, founded it in 1990 after leaving the presidency of Sealy and Stearns & Foster, and Greg succeeded him after nearly two decades in the business’s manufacturing, engineering and operations functions. The company is now largely employee-owned through an ESOP and, with more than 400 employees, 12 factories and about 115 showrooms in nine states, remains unusual in the bedding trade for building two-sided, traditionally constructed beds and for never having held a sale.

Career Highlights

• President and CEO of The Original Mattress Factory, succeeding his father, founder Ron Trzcinski, on his retirement.
• Joined the company in 2000 and held positions in manufacturing, engineering and operations before becoming president.
• Leads a factory-direct business of 12 factories and about 115 showrooms in Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Ohio, Minnesota, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Virginia.
• Oversees an employee-owned company that has operated fully through an ESOP since 2017 and reported being about 80% employee-owned in 2025.
• Holds a master’s degree in engineering from the University of Virginia.

Professional Journey

Trzcinski was born and raised in Cleveland. After a master’s degree in engineering at the University of Virginia, he joined The Original Mattress Factory in 2000 and worked in its manufacturing, engineering and operations functions.

The business he joined was his father’s. Ron Trzcinski had been president and chief operating officer of Sealy and Stearns & Foster, and resigned in 1988 when the bedding companies were sold to investors in a leveraged buyout. “He didn’t like the ‘cash is king’ philosophy,” his son has said. With fellow industry veterans Larry Carlson and Perry Doermann, and soon Doug Stroup, he opened the first factory and showroom in Cleveland in 1990. Growth followed people rather than a map: the first nine or ten factories were run by colleagues his father had worked with at Sealy, Stearns & Foster or elsewhere in bedding, which explains a footprint that went from Ohio to Atlanta, St. Paul, Charlotte and Orlando.

Greg Trzcinski became president and chief executive when his father retired; trade press gives the year as 2018 in 2021 and 2022 coverage and as 2017 in a 2025 profile. The company had begun moving toward employee ownership in 2011 and has operated fully through an employee stock ownership plan since 2017; by 2025 it was about 80% employee-owned, with full employee ownership the stated goal. “The cool thing is, the better the company does, the better the employees do,” he has said.

He has kept the founding model largely intact. Each factory, of 30,000 to 80,000 square feet, builds made-to-order mattresses and foundations for four to fifteen stores within about 70 to 80 miles, and the newest opened in Tampa in 2021. The company still favours traditional techniques such as hog-ringing, sources components domestically where it can, and has never run a sale, preferring what he calls “honest, transparent pricing”. Online orders are a single-digit share of sales, and he openly tells customers to test a bed in a store before buying. Recent work has focused on a redesigned store interior, a rebranding and refresh of the mattress lines, and absorbing tariff-related cost increases during an industry-wide downturn, which he says the company’s lean, “run like it is bad times” approach has let it weather without major changes.

Education

University of Virginia

Master’s degree, Engineering