“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

Matt's Biography

Matt is a Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Garnett Station Partners, a principal investment firm with over $2 billion of Assets Under Management. Prior to GSP, he worked at L Catterton Partners, a leading consumer and retail focused private equity firm with over $30 billion of capital under management. Before L Catterton, Matt worked in the Investment Banking Division of Citigroup where he executed a number of M&A and Leveraged Finance transactions. He received an M.B.A. with honors from Harvard Business School where he was selected as an Arthur Rock Center Fellow and a B.S.B.A. in Finance from Washington University in St. Louis. Matt is a Trustee of the Heckscher Foundation for Children and a Board Member of Reading Partners, New York.

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Personal Core Value

I want to continue to be able to look back a year ago, every year, and think how little I knew then compared to now

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Education

Harvard Business School, M.B.A.; Washington University St. Louis, B.S.B.A.

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Hobbies

Reading, rooting for the NY Giants, building & launching model rockets with my kids

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Top Podcasts

Invest like the Best, Founders, Capital Allocators, Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables

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Favorite Books

Predators Ball, Merchants of Debt, Am I Being Too Subtle

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Last Meal

NY strip steak (Rare+), Kettle One martini, chocolate Haagen Dazs ice cream

“It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt

Alex's Biography

Alex is a Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Garnett Station Partners, a principal investment firm with over $2 billion of Assets Under Management. Prior to GSP, Alex worked in private equity at Apollo Global Management, where he focused on transactions in the industrials, business services, gaming, and real estate sectors. Prior to Apollo, Alex worked at Goldman Sachs in the firm’s Industrials Investment Banking Group. He is a Trustee of the Heckscher Foundation for Children, the TEAK Fellowship, and America Needs You. Alex received an M.B.A. with Honors from Harvard Business School and an A.B. with Honors in Government and Economics from Harvard College.

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Personal Core Values

Loving family, pursuit of excellence, hard work, balance, “leave the campsite cleaner than you found it,” listen. The highest expectations of myself, my family, and the GSP team. Gratitude, loyalty, compassion. Make things happen.

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Education

Harvard Business School, M.B.A; Harvard College, A.B.

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Hobbies

Spending time with my wife and our kids Georgia & Gus, skiing, tennis, golf, surfing, reading

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Top Podcasts

Invest Like the Best, Founders, Acquired

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Favorite Books

A Man in Full, The Prime Ministers, Atlas Shrugged, Am I Being Too Subtle

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Last Meal

Dinner outside with my whole family