Matthew L. Root
Matthew L. Root is the Founder and Managing Member of Spearhead, LLC.
Immediately prior to founding Spearhead, LLC, Mr. Root was a Vice President at Fortress Investment Group, focused on raising capital and managing investor relations. As part of a two-person team responsible for raising capital, Mr. Root increased the capitalization of the funds by over $2 billion in less than two years.
For the six years prior to joining Fortress, Mr. Root was a Principal of The Chesapeake Group, a New York City-based investment banking boutique. Prior to that, he served as Chief Financial Officer for two companies, the publicly traded Mentortech, Inc. and privately held Intracel, Inc., and was responsible for developing and running a national state and local lobbying program for Ogden Projects, Inc., a major energy and environmental project and services company.
Over 20 years, Mr. Root has completed transactions on four continents, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and a multitude of different corporate debt and equity financings.
Mr. Root was both the Treasurer of The Collegiate School's Alumni Council in New York City and the Chairman of Duke University's first young alumni event in New York City. He was also the Founding Chairman of Young New Yorkers for The Philharmonic, the first organization founded with the goal of establishing an appreciation of The New York Philharmonic among a younger demographic of benefactors and audiences; the organization is now well into its second decade.
Currently, Mr. Root serves on the Board of the Roxbury (CT) Land Trust.
Mr. Root has an M.B.A. in finance from Columbia University's School of Business and a AB from Duke University.
Email:
mlr@spearheadllc.com
