Scot Matteson
President & CEO
With over 45 years of real estate finance and development experience Scot Matteson, Founding Partner of Centurion Partners directed the firm's project financing, investment strategy, venture and capital partnerships, debt facilities and equity structuring. Under Mr. Matteson's management, Centurion Partners has grown into a firm with a portfolio of approximately $3 billion. With his extensive relationships within many real estate finance venues, Mr. Matteson, pursuant to a high-yielding investment strategy, has brought capital to Centurion Partners for several projects in Aspen, San Diego and in Miami. Mr. Matteson's vision for Centurion Partners has always been real estate development of best-in-class projects in areas that have demonstrated a high degree of cyclical stability and desirability with significant barriers to entry. Among his achievements at Centurion Partners, Mr. Matteson, successfully identified and developed an iconic location in Aspen, Colorado, which became The Residences at Little Nell at the Gondola Plaza and Aspen One a 14 single family home development on the base of Aspen Mountain After attending the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he studied Economics, Mr. Matteson founded Matteson Development Corporation, an entrepreneurial real estate development firm specializing in commercial development. Mr. Matteson subsequently cofounded American Realty and Financial Services of California, Inc., a real estate investment specialist that, under Mr. Matteson's leadership, grew to a 100-person, nine-office firm with $15 billion in mortgage banking, brokerage, direct investment, and principal transactions. Mr. Matteson also formed Boston American Financial Group (partnership with Credit Swiss First Boston) which evolved into a 20-person firm with over $5.5 billion of single tenant lending. BAFG originated, underwrote, funded and serviced all the loans. Business was eventually sold to GE Capital. Mr. Matteson was also on the board of Encore Housing Fund. Encore Housing Fund was a $350 million distressed housing fund that focused on distressed residential land/housing. Encore Fund II focused on multi family. Founded in 2004 Matteson Capital, a multi-faceted real estate investment and development company, has been in business under the Centurion Partners name (its successor company) for over 17 years, during which it has partnered with Goldman Sachs, Canyon Capital, and CIM on a variety of mixed-use and hospitality projects. In a Whitehall Fund venture, Goldman Sachs and Matteson (Centurion) planned, designed, entitled, constructed, sold/leased, and operated the Residences at the Little Nell, a $350-million development in Aspen, Colorado consisting of hotel rooms, fractional units, retail, restaurant, and affordable housing. Matteson (Centurion) played a similar role with Goldman Sachs/Euro Hypo Bank in the development of Sapphire Towers in downtown San Diego, a $140-million ground-up mixed-use project consisting of condos, retail, and office.