Matt Spathas is a partner 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 $2 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.

In 2008, Matt was honored by Oregon State University’s College of Business at its 100th year anniversary of Innovative Global Leaders which honored 100 graduates. The featured 100 are a “who’s who” of Oregon, national and global business leaders. 

Matt serves as a board member of 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.

Passionate about education, Matt  worked with teachers, district staff and community to launch in a cluster of public schools in San Diego on Project Light Speed which is a series of digital initiatives intended to provide digital resources and tools for teachers and students and increase awareness of the need for 21st Century transformation - all geared to engage and empower students. A key initiative of Project Light Speed was Live Homework Help, free online tutoring for students which was a collaborative effort of vision and funding by SDUSD, the City of San Diego and private business - one of the first of its kind in the US. To learn more, see Trashing The Chalkboards. 

In September of 2007, Matt was invited by the San Diego County Office of Education to address over 300 School Superintendants, Principals and staff members from throughout San Diego County about Skills of the 21st Century Workplace.  Click Here To Watch. 

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.