Matthew Helderman

CEO and Co-Founder at BondIt Media Capital

Speaker

Matthew Helderman is the CEO and co-founder of BondIt Media Capital and Buffalo 8. Helderman founded Buffalo 8 in 2010, while an undergrad student at Lake Forest College. Buffalo 8 has since premiered projects at Sundance, SXSW, and Berlin, as well as producing the Netflix original film “Rodney King” directed by Spike Lee and the Netflix original series “The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes” directed by Joe Berlinger.

In 2013, Helderman co-founded BondIt Media Capital and has led BondIt in the deployment of over $500M+ of capital in over 400+ film, television, and media opportunities, while raising $30M of equity and debt for a partial sale to public traded Accord Financial (ACD) in addition to expanding the company's credit facility to $100M in 2020 with Texas based hedge fund Revere Capital and then further in 2024 with alternative credit fund manager, Keystone National Group.

BondIt projects include the $100M box office breakout Terrifier 3, the Anna Kendrick Netflix hit Woman of the Hour, cult franchise film Clerks III from Kevin Smith, the Oscar nominated Loving Vincent, the Roland Emerich directed war epic Midway, the Indie Spirit winner The Peanut Butter Falcon, and projects starring Robert De Niro, Bruce Willis, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Nicolas Cage, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Liam Neeson, Mel Gibson, Kevin James, Morgan Freeman, Jason Sudeikis, Kevin Smith, and Samuel L. Jackson resulting in over $1B+ of worldwide box office performances.

Helderman also co-managed the acquisition of 30-year-old entertainment payroll firm, ABS Payroll and today serves as an Executive Director, Partner, and Board Member after having successfully steered the majority sale of the business to a private equity group backed by Mitt + Tag Romney in 2022.

Helderman graduated from Lake Forest College with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and has been a featured TED speaker, profiled in the New York Times, and is a YPO member.