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As President of CBRE’s Infrastructure & Energy sector, Matt leads over 3,000 employees delivering commercial real estate services for businesses spanning the natural resources, energy, and civil infrastructure markets globally. He and his team provide expertise and capabilities hosted from the most geographically remote exploratory environments through secure data centers and into corporate boardrooms. The team is well known for their work with energy explorers, extractors, generators, transmitters, and distributors; key transportation infrastructure providers in rail, air and seaport; as well as public service portfolios. Collectively, they manage >17K sites, >20K+ projects/yr, >$1B in facilities operating expenses, and nearing $1 Trillion in simultaneous active capital deployment programs.
With two decades of industry experience, Matt has delivered and led client services in Facilities Management, Project Management, Transaction Management, Technology, Finance, and Strategy.
He previously led CBRE’s Smart Buildings practice, where he and his team designed and deployed industry-first service solutions integrating clients’ real assets, independent technologies, and CBRE service teams. He also co-led the CBRE Institute, a strategic advisory service built for heads of real estate aiming to transform their real estate services and portfolios.
External to CBRE, Matt served on the US National Security Council (NSC) as Director of Resilience, coordinating operations and policy for globally significant events involving the National Security Advisor (NSA) and the President of the United States (POTUS). He served prior as Chief of Staff to the US General Services Administration’s (GSA) Office of Emergency Response and Recovery, responsible for aligning private sector support to the federal government’s disaster response and reconstruction efforts.
Matt began his career with Ernst & Young Real Estate Advisory Services and Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP Construction Litigation. He holds degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology’s schools of Building Construction and Law.
With two decades of industry experience, Matt has delivered and led client services in Facilities Management, Project Management, Transaction Management, Technology, Finance, and Strategy.
He previously led CBRE’s Smart Buildings practice, where he and his team designed and deployed industry-first service solutions integrating clients’ real assets, independent technologies, and CBRE service teams. He also co-led the CBRE Institute, a strategic advisory service built for heads of real estate aiming to transform their real estate services and portfolios.
External to CBRE, Matt served on the US National Security Council (NSC) as Director of Resilience, coordinating operations and policy for globally significant events involving the National Security Advisor (NSA) and the President of the United States (POTUS). He served prior as Chief of Staff to the US General Services Administration’s (GSA) Office of Emergency Response and Recovery, responsible for aligning private sector support to the federal government’s disaster response and reconstruction efforts.
Matt began his career with Ernst & Young Real Estate Advisory Services and Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP Construction Litigation. He holds degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology’s schools of Building Construction and Law.
Years of experience
- 20+ years
Education
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Emory University
Representative Clients
- US General Services Administration
- Province of British Columbia
- Millenium Challenge Corp
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
- Southern California Edison
- CenterPoint Energy
- Long Island Power Association
- RTX (Raytheon)
- Pratt & Whitney
- Collins Aerospace
- Lockheed Martin
- General Dynamics