Matthew Harnett

Matt Harnett is a founding Partner of Tecum Capital Partners (“Tecum”) and serves on the firm’s Investment Committee. In this position, he is responsible for leading all aspects of transaction origination, analysis, structuring, underwriting, deal execution, monitoring, and exiting of subject private equity and mezzanine debt investments.

As the deal team lead, Matt has closed and managed the full life cycle of over 100 unique mezzanine debt and private equity transactions. He has been with the same investment partners for the past 18 years, where the team has invested over $1 billion across multiple funds. His focus is on companies with $10-100 million of revenue and $3-10 million of EBITDA, primarily in the business-to-business services, manufacturing, and value-added distribution markets. Matt and his partners recently launched their 4^th Small Business Investment Company (“SBIC”), a $350 million committed fund focused on supporting best-in-class sponsors, management teams and operators.

Matt currently serves as a Board Member of Aging with Comfort, BP Business Solutions, Connecticut Electric, Conco Services, Midwest Equipment Sales, National Power and Blackwood Solutions. He also serves as a Board Observer for The Marwin Company, Inc., Gilman Cheese, Long Island Waste Management, CM Industries, Five Point Dental Specialists, CDE Services, Hainesport Transportation, The Lewis Group, DelGrosso Foods and Arrow Waste.

This extensive investment experience has provided him with significant expertise in sourcing and structuring transactions, growing companies, and executing & negotiating successful exits. 

In addition, Matt is an active member of the Small Business Investor Association (“SBIA”) and is on the SBIA Independent sponsor committee and has served on the Midwest conference committee. He is a member of the Association of Corporate Growth (“ACG”) and serves on the Board for the Pittsburgh Chapter. 

Prior to co-founding Tecum, Matt served six years at the predecessor organization (2007-2013), F.N.B. Capital Corporation, LLC, where he was Vice President. Prior to this, he started his career at Ford Motor Company (2002-2006) where he managed dealership groups in the Buffalo and Pittsburgh markets. He advised franchised dealers on operational improvement, financial analysis and reporting, sales process, inventory planning, and sales, parts & service profitability. As a result of his success in this role,  he was named Ford’s 2006 Zone Manager of the Year. Ultimately, direct exposure to franchise consolidations, and a passion for investing and growing private family-owned companies, spurred Matt to pursue a career in M&A.

Matt received an MBA degree from the University of Pittsburgh and a BSBA degree from The Ohio State University. Matt is also a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (“CAIA”) Charterholder.