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Mr. Matthies is a private investor and consultant to companies in the consumer, e-commerce and real estate industries. He is currently the principal partner in Bellagio Partners, a recently formed investment and consulting practice. Mr. Matthies was a founding partner of Montgomery Securities. He joined the predecessor firm, Robertson, Colman, Siebel and Weisel, in 1979 as an analyst focused on the hotel, restaurant and entertainment industries. In 1978, Montgomery Securities was formed and he was named director of research and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. He was a 10-time Institutional Investor All Star analyst during his research career and headed one of the most productive research groups on Wall Street from 1978-1990. In 1990, he was named head of the firm’s Consumer & Real Estate Corporate Finance activities. In September 1999, he retired from the firm, now Banc of America Securities, to pursue the activities of Bellagio Partners. Mr. Matthies is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Williams College and holds an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. | 