Matthew Wilkens awarded the 'Excellence in Finance - Leaders' award at FiNext Conference Orlando

ORLANDO, Fla. - Oct. 2, 2019 - PRLog -- atthew Wilkens was awarded the Excellence in Finance - Leaders award for their significant contribution towards the financial sector at FiNext Conference 2019, held at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress, Orlando, Florida.

Mr. Wilkens is Senior Managing Director of Capital Markets and Global Partnering for Kallas Asset Management; the Private Equity arm of Kallas SA; a Brazilian real estate conglomerate based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Mr. Wilkens has a demonstrated history of managing balance sheets over $1B across numerous asset classes. Prior to Kallas, he was a short term interest rates trader for Goldman Sachs. He also co-founded Vine Street Trading, an investment management and futures trading firm and Blue Ivy Ventures; a venture capital firm that support's Yale University's entrepreneurial community.

Mr. Wilkens has led significant capital raises throughout the Private Equity Real Estate, Venture Capital and Investment Management space raising in excess $100mm+. He has a B.A in Political Science from the University of Arizona and an M.B.A from Yale University with honors.

Extra info / Highlights:

Successfully managed a multi-billion dollar balance sheet at Goldman Sachs during the financial crisis producing record numbers for business unit/trading book. Co-Launched Blue Ivy Ventures; a venture capital firm formed by Yale University alumni. Investment capital is raised from Yale alumni to invest in Yale-led companies. At BIV, helped scale the business to be the premier Yale associated VC fund. (Yale University has no affiliation). Currently on Fund 3.

Successfully raised institutional capital from three continents to deploy into the Brazilian Real Estate Market. Focus on developing residential buildings across all income classes. IRR's over 18%. Speaker at numerous family office conferences and senior advisor for family offices and startups across the Middle East, the USA and South America on strategy, governance and investment opportunities in the RE, Hospitality, VC and Hedge Fund space. Sit on numerous advisory boards in the startup space. Examples include a gaming company and social networking platform for the entertainment industry.

The third FiNext Awards & Conference was held on the 29th & 30th of August at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress in Orlando, Florida. This event was the much awaited Finance and Technology conference of the year 2019 for North American region which aimed at bringing together the best and brightest from the field of Finance & Technology under one roof.

The conference strives to build a platform for startups, SMEs, key decision makers, researchers, investors and people from the media to interact and garner meaningful alliances.

For more information, visit: https://finextcon.com/member/matthew-wilkens/