Seasoned capital markets advisor to mid-market companies. Specialties: Strategic and Financial Advisory, Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Placement of Debt and Equity, Corporate DevelopmentMore than 25 years of capital markets experience that encompasses investment banking, leveraged finance, corporate development, and corporate strategy. He has been involved as intermediary and principal in mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures valued at over $6 billion, and debt and equity capital raises in excess of $15 billion. In addition, he has completed public and private transactions ranging in size and scope from domestic middle market to complex cross border deals in a myriad of industries including media, publishing, medical technology, and consumer products.Before his Wall Street career, Matthew served as head of Corporate Development at Simon & Schuster where he managed the acquisition and integration of over 30 businesses and the divestiture of five business units.Matthew is the CFO of Nanochon, Inc, a bioengineering company and also sits on the Advisory Board of SonoStik, LLC, a medical device company both located in Washington, D.C. Matthew is a Practitioner In Residence at University of New Haven Pompea College of Business. Previously he was a lecturer at The George Washington University and an advisor to Alliance Mezzanine Investors LP, an SBIC mezzanine fund in New Jersey.Matthew received his M.B.A. from Fordham University Gabelli Graduate School of Business (Finance) and his B.B.A. from The George Washington University, with concentrations in Finance and Political Science.