As Executive Vice President and a member of the firm’s Executive Leadership Team, Matt manages and oversees Synergy’s investment team who focuses on working with the firm’s current joint venture partners to create and implement strategic business plans for owned and acquired assets including leasing, capital improvements, and redevelopment initiatives as well as the recommendation, coordination, and execution of acquisitions, dispositions, and refinance transactions. Matt is also responsible for the cultivation and sourcing of new equity capital partnerships and investment opportunities, including existing relationship management and oversight of the firm’s institutional equity partners.
Prior to joining Synergy, Matt worked at Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, formally Grubb & Ellis Company, where he built a successful practice specializing in Downtown Boston leasing, representing both landlords and tenants. He received both local and national recognition as one of the company’s top rising stars as well as one of the most respected commercial advisers within the Boston market.
Matt is a graduate of Rollins College & the Brooks School. At Rollins, Matt received a degree in Political Science and Business. Matt has been very active within Boston’s commercial real estate and philanthropic communities. He is an active member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and currently serves on the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP) Program Committee (Massachusetts Chapter) and is a member of the Greater Boston Real Estate’s Commercial Brokers Association (GBREB-CBA). Matt also currently is co-chair of the Facilities Committee at The Meadowbrook School of Weston and a member of the Executive Committee of the Brooks School Alumni Board. Matt is also a past president of The Business Associates Club and a former co-chair of NAIOP’s Developing Leaders Executive Committee.