Matt Brandt is a 30+-year operator with a track record of high-performance, often record-breaking sales and revenue growth built primarily in the United States — turning around underperforming teams, scaling organizations, and producing outsized results across multiple industries. That same operating discipline has also taken him further afield: Asia market entry, investment banking deal flow, sovereign wealth capital raises, and a personal business build and exit. He has built and led organizations across three continents, operated at the highest levels of institutional capital, and spent the last several years building the infrastructure and relationships that Brandt Capital is built on.
Brandt Capital was founded on a straightforward conviction: the best businesses in America are built by individuals, and those individuals deserve a buyer who genuinely understands what they've created. There's a deeper motivation behind it, too — a genuine desire to help baby boomer owners who are ready to sell but don't know where to turn. The alternative is stark: without the right buyer, many of these businesses simply close their doors, taking decades of built-up value with them — no wealth transfer, no multigenerational benefit, nothing passed on. Brandt Capital exists to make sure that doesn't have to be the ending. When you talk to Brandt Capital, you talk to Matt — directly, with no intermediaries and no process theater.
Investment Banking
Investment BankingChinaM&A Advisory
Served as the Senior-Most Executive in China for this New York-based investment bank — simultaneously as Managing Director, General Manager, and Board Director of the Beijing Wholly Owned Foreign Enterprise. Built and managed deal flow between Western capital markets and Chinese institutions at a time when China relationships were not yet widely accessible to US firms.
Optimized and utilized a deal flow referral network of 6,000 financial professionals inside China across five regional offices, leveraging the global BDO/Trenwith Alliance — 20,000+ professionals in 650 offices across 105 countries. Managed highest-level institutional relationships and oversaw the navigation of complex China regulatory and political environments for a foreign-owned financial institution.
6,000
Professionals in China deal flow network
20,000+
Global professionals, 105 countries
Sovereign Wealth Capital
Sovereign WealthCross-BorderDeep Tech
Founding Operating Partner in the formational stage of an attempt to create a $500M operationally focused cross-border platform headquartered in London, engaging SASAC Shenzhen — the $1.5 trillion AUM branch of China's State Council and the sixth-largest commercial entity in China — as strategic partner, operational partner, and GP (general partner) in fund negotiations. Responsible for pre-fund strategy, team building, and execution across three continents. The fund ultimately was not funded, but the process itself generated significant market intelligence and institutional relationships.
Built and managed the deal flow team, rapidly generating a multitude of deep tech and deep science. Created scalable processes for repeatable deal flow. Led cultural integration and Scaling Up implementation across Western and Chinese business environments.
$500M
Pre-fund formation target
$1.5T
SASAC Shenzhen AUM — strategic, operational & GP partner
100+
Deep tech investment candidates generated
Sales Force Transformation
Sales TurnaroundTeam BuildingScaling UpTopGrading
A signature capability across 30+ years of high-performance sales management and team building: entering underperforming organizations and producing rapid, measurable results through a consistent, repeatable methodology. The foundation was built in 1984 through a mentor relationship with Dr. Aaron Hemsley, who held two PhDs in performance psychology and behavioral psychology. Hemsley's program promised a 10x income increase in roughly a month — and delivered. Matt studied his material for years, then converted it into operational brick-and-mortar abilities that became the primary thrust of his work through the 1980s and 1990s. This foundational backbone was then enhanced with two more powerful frameworks: Scaling Up (Certified Practitioner since 2015; completed the full year-long coaching program in 2022), known for driving 10x–30x+ profitability gains, and TopGrading, for building A-player teams from the ground up. Together, these approaches have produced documented, repeatable performance lifts across brokerage, technology, distribution, and manufacturing — see the full Case Studies for specifics.