About Matthew
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.
About Finext Awards
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.