During his over a decade in politics, Matt was involved in leading fundraising operations for many high profile political campaigns ranging from top tier U.S. Senate and Congressional races, statewide & local races in Kentucky and in surrounding states; as well as 527 groups across the country including the Democratic Governors Association. Matt helped raise over $50 million for those campaigns and interest groups during that time span. Matt has also advised capital efforts in the entrepreneurial venture capital space.

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Matt also serves as Vice President of the New Leaders Council. Matt has a broad portfolio of responsibilities including over seeing development, government affairs, policy development and strategic partnerships for NLC. During his time at the NLC, he led the organization to raising over $9 million in five years prior to that NLC had only raised a total of $400,000 as an entire organization in its first five year since its creation in 2006.

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For his private sector work, Matt serves as the Vice President of Wildcat Digital a full-service campaign, brand management, and donor advisory firm. Wildcat Digital is in partnership with Nashville based CounterPoint Messaging, a leading Democratic campaign media outfit.

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Matt is a native of Louisville, KY and a 2009 magna cum laude graduate from the University of Louisville, with a Bachelors of Science in Political Science, Economics and History and currently resides in Washington, D.C.