Matt has a passion for growing businesses rooted in his experience over the last two decades building private equity funded companies and serving as a management consultant. He founded M Square Ventures, an advisory firm that partners with business owners at private companies, community banks, and family offices to catalyze action to realize their “top of the agenda” objectives. He co-founded Texas Next Capital, a lower middle market private equity firm focused on building and growing companies in Texas. Matt has served on variety of boards in president-level leadership positions.
Prior to his private equity career, Matt worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and Accenture where he served Fortune 100 companies. Matt earned a BA from Abilene Christian University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Matt is excited to be a part of Ignite MindShift and its mission to teach kids the important lessons in life that they do not learn in school.