Matthew Gottesdiener

Matthew serves as the Chief Executive Officer for Northland, overseeing the firm’s investment and development activity, operating business and portfolio strategy. Under his leadership, Northland has grown from $4 billion to $7 billion in assets under management, and expanded from its roots in garden-style suburban housing to one of the highest quality diversified portfolios of multifamily and mixed-use assets in the country. Since 2015, Matthew has been responsible for the acquisition of 8,888 units, the disposition of 6,156 units, and the financing of 14,441 units, totaling more than $4 billion in transactions. Before joining Northland, Matthew worked at Goldman Sachs as an investment professional across a variety of roles, including managing the Corporate Derivatives trading book, executing, and hedging over $40 billion in transactions with more than twenty Fortune 100 companies.

Matthew holds a BA from Yale University, magna cum laude, where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute, where he serves on ULI's Multi-Family Product Council, and is a Board Member of the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC). Matthew also serves as a member of the Board of Directors and as Treasurer at Homestart, a not-for-profit that provides a comprehensive system of housing search, support, and stabilization services to the homeless and indigent in the Greater Boston area. Matthew lives in Newton with his spouse, Rebecca, and their two children.