Matthew Potter

Partner, Head of Private Credit at Pollen Street

Speaker

Matthew joined Pollen Street in 2009 and is a partner. Matthew leads the Credit Strategy and is responsible for all asset based lending at Pollen Street. He has more than 15 years’ experience of credit and private equity investing and is a member of the Pollen Street investment committee.

Matthew has led a number of credit investments across a range of asset classes and structures. He also has responsibility for investments in Shawbrook (leading UK challenger bank) and Tandem (UK green consumer bank), and has previously represented the firm on the Board of Banca Sistema (Italian specialist bank), OPLO (mortgage and consumer lender) and Capitalflow (Irish SME lender).

Prior to RBS, Matthew qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PwC and spent four years in their Corporate Finance Department focusing on mid-market transactions. Matthew has a First-Class Honours degree in Economics and Finance from Bristol University