Matt Harris

EXPERIENCE

Matt Harris initially joined Bain Capital in 1995 and rejoined the firm in 2012. He is a Partner on the Ventures team, focused on investments in financial technology. He sees a huge amount of revenue, profit, and market cap shifting from regulated financial institutions to entrepreneur-led insurgents, across payments, lending, capital markets, real estate, and insurance. More ramblings on these topics can be found at http://bcv.com/insights/mattharris. Matt started his investing career as a member of the North America Private Equity team.

Matt serves as a Trustee of Williams College as well as a member of the College’s Investment Committee and co-head of the Non-Marketable Assets Committee and is the former Chair of the Board of the Williamstown Theatre Festival. He is also a board member at Endeavor, an organization leading the global movement to catalyze long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and accelerating the best high-impact entrepreneurs around the world, as well as the boards of the Partnership Fund for New York City and the Innovation Advisory Council for the New York Federal Reserve.

Prior to joining Bain Capital, Matt worked at Bain & Company. In 2000, he founded Village Ventures, where he focused on early-stage fintech investing.

EDUCATION

Matt has a BA in political economy from Williams College.