Matthew T.  Spathas, Bio.

Matt Spathas is passionate about transforming the 150 year old educational delivery system.  He is a partner at SENTRE Partners and is responsible for investment acquisitions and value added strategies.   Matt has over 25 years of real estate experience having acquired, developed or managed or facilitated in excess of $1.5 billion of real estate transactions. Prior to joining SENTRE, Matt spent 8 years with Trammell Crow Company, the nation's largest commercial development company.

Matt also serves as CEO of Bandwidth Now, which transforms commercial buildings into "next gen" environments, treating bandwidth as a utility and Wi-Fi as an amenity using its patent pending Building Optical Network (BON). Bandwidth Now and SENTRE were nominated by Intel for the Computerworld Honors Program's 21st Century Achievement Award.
 

In 2004, Matt journeyed to Asia with Realcomm on a mission to seek out next generation real estate and best practices touring 38 buildings in 5 countries and 12 cities.  This tour also included visiting two K thru 12 international schools, the Western Academy of Beijing and Concordia International School of Shanghai.
 

He has participated on several real estate thought leadership and next generation building panels throughout the US including Realcomm, UNC Charlotte AIA Future Office, Cisco, and Intel. SENTRE's leading edge next generation real estate deployments have been profiled in the Wall Street Journal, Cisco's IQ Magazine, Fast Company Magazine and several others.
 

Matt is leading the Bandwidth Bay Wi-Fi Hot Spot initiative, a consortium of the City of San Diego (CCDC) the San Diego Economic Development Corporation to deploy Wi-Fi (wireless) "Hot Spots" as an "urban internet amenity" in downtown San Diego.

Matt serves as a board member of Aztec Venture Network, Aztec Venture Network a San Diego-based seed capital and mentoring resource available to qualified early-stage companies in need of financing and business coaching expertise in order to advance their business plan.  Matt is a graduate of Oregon State University. He is a licensed real estate broker in the California.

He is active in the San Diego community serving on the Big Brothers Big Sisters of San Diego board and was a recent recipient of Big Brothers Man of the Year Award. Matt has also been involved at San Diego State University, as a founding member of Hoopla, which has raised over $1 million to support academic achievement of student athletes. Matt and his wife Kris have four children.

Fee free to email Matt at mspathas@sentre.com