Meir Matana
Meir Matana joined Crown Holdings Group as a Principal in early 2009 with over 24 years of robust professional experience in real estate, legal, finance, business management and engineering. Mr. Matana is a co-managing member of Bentley Capital Group, the investor relationship arm of Crown Holdings Group. His overall responsibilities include fundraising, financing and investor relations.
Mr. Matana began his career as a Practical Engineer at the Israeli Aircraft Industry and as a Field Engineer at E.C.I. Telecommunications Ltd. After completion of his IDF service and admission to the Israeli Bar Association he worked as an attorney at Fischer, Behar, Chen & Co., one of Israel’s leading commercial law firms. At FBC, Mr. Matana specialized in M&As, real estate, corporate finance, private placements and PIPE transactions in TASE and NASDAQ. As an attorney, Mr. Matana represented DSPC Israel in INTEL Corporation purchase of DSPC ($1.6 billion). From mid-2000 to late 2006 he focused on consulting Israeli and international mid-size firms in the initiation, negotiation and closing of complicated worldwide transactions in real estate, M&A and high-tech; while taking senior executive roles in clients’ management teams. In 2006, Mr. Matana was nominated as an Executive Director and Head of Investment Banking for IBI Investment House Ltd., one of Israel’s leading investment houses and then the largest underwriter in Israel. While with IBI, he raised client financing through various Israeli and non-Israeli investment groups and structural forms. In this regard, Mr. Matana has worked with a diverse base of investors including; leading Israeli and European institutional investors, ultra high net worth individuals, corporations and leading family offices. In 2009, Mr. Matana joined Crown Holdings Group as a principal, and since then he has been directly responsible for raising over $300 million during the past 3 years.Read More…
Overall, during the last 20 years Mr. Matana has completed over $3B in business transactions (mainly real estate) as well as over $2B in legal transactions. Mr. Matana served in the Israeli Air Force between 1988 to 1991, first as a Cadet at the prestigious IAF Flight Course and then as an IAF Engineer in the IAF Air-to-Air missiles laboratories.
Mr. Matana is a 1988 Practical Engineer (electronics and computers) graduate of the Lady Davis College. In 1994 he was granted his Senior Investment Consultant certificate by the Israeli College for Stock Market Studies. In 1996, Mr. Matana received both his Bachelor of Law degree (LL.B) from Tel-Aviv University (Buchmann Faculty of Law) and his Bachelor of Arts degree (B.A.) in Economics from Tel-Aviv University (Gershon H. Gordon Faculty of Social Science). In 1999, he received his Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree in Finance & Accounting from Tel-Aviv University (Faculty of Management, Leon Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration). Mr. Matana is admitted to the Israeli Bar Association as an Israeli attorney. He is married with four children and resides in Atlanta, Georgia.
