President
Matt Windisch is President of Kennedy Wilson. Matt oversees many of the company's key business units while also spearheading corporate acquisitions and providing oversight of public and private capital market activities.
Matt has over two decades of experience in real estate investment across the globe. Throughout his career at Kennedy Wilson, Matt has helped raise over $20 billion of capital for the company and its various platforms. He has played a lead role in many of the company's significant transactions, including its 2009 public listing on the NYSE, the acquisition of Bank of Ireland's real estate investment management division that launched KW's European business, the Kennedy Wilson Europe IPO on the London Stock Exchange, the sale of the company's Japanese apartment business and simultaneous acquisition of a majority interest in the company's affordable housing platform Vintage Housing Holdings, and the off-market acquisition of Pacific Western Bank’s $5.7 billion construction loan portfolio that expanded Kennedy Wilson’s footprint across the United States. Most recently, he led the acquisition of Toll Brothers’ Apartment Living that will add over $5 billion of assets under management and create an industry leading national multifamily housing platform.
Prior to joining Kennedy Wilson in 2006, Matt held several different positions at JPMorgan in investment banking, strategy, and risk management. He received a B.B.A. in Finance and Accounting from Emory University and an M.B.A. from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management with an emphasis in Real Estate.