Real Estate/Finance Bio:Out of Princeton, Matt became an equity research analyst in electric utilities at Jefferies & Co. in NYC for two years. He then pursued a long time goal of living in California and moved to San Francisco to accept a commercial banking position at Scotia Capital where he worked on real estate and gaming bank loans. After Scotia, Matt became an analyst at Banc of America Securities in real estate investment banking where he completed a 3-year program. He joined Jones Lang LaSalle in 2007 where he developed sales skills as a real estate consultant, including cold-calling and creating/presenting company qualifications to prospective clients.Matt left JLL in 2008, he moved to LA to pursue his wife and wanted to apply his passion for swimming to an entrepreneurial endeavor for kids, which led to starting Swimming LA Swim School. Swimming LA has given him outstanding entrepreneurial perspective in addition to his previous real estate/finance experience.Swimming Bio:Matt qualified and competed in the 2000 U.S. Olympic Trials in the 400 IM and 200 Breaststroke. He also swam intercollegiately during his four years at Princeton University where he won two individual Ivy League titles (400 IM & 200 Breaststroke) and is a former University record holder in the 400 IM. After a long hiatus after graduation in 2001, Matt re-entered competition for the 2008 U.S. Masters season. Competing for the Olympic Club in San Francisco, Matt won 7 individual U.S. Masters national titles during the 2008 season.Matt joined Southern California Aquatics or "SCAQ" in July 2009 and was a member of the 800 Meter Freestyle Relay, which broke the Masters National Record for the 120-159 age group at the 2009 SPMA long course regional championships. SCAQ's time of 8:03.21 was the fastest 800 Meter Freestyle Relay ever recorded in U.S. Masters competition.Specialties: Skills:* Licenses – Licensed California real estate salesperson; Formerly Series 7 & 63 registered* Computer Skills – ARGUS, Microsoft Office (including VBA), Bloomberg API, Factset, Baseline, Access, Visual Basic (VB), Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) in Excel, Powerpoint and Word (Macros), VBScript, HTML* Foreign Language Skills – German (7 Years study along with practical experiences in Germany)