MATADOR CAPITAL PARTNERS - Key Persons
John M. Greer is the founder and Managing Partner of Matador Capital Partners, LLC. Prior to founding Matador, he was appointed to serve in the George H.W. Bush Administration (41) at the U.S. Department of the Treasury as Director of Financial Sector Reforms for East Europe and the former Soviet Union, where, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he ran a multi-billion dollar financial sector reform and privatization effort with over 550 individuals stationed in 16 countries. He also served as a Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretaries of International Affairs and Economic Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
Prior to his government service, Mr. Greer served as President of Greer Capital Management, Inc., a merchant banking and investment firm and as Managing Director and Partner of Balanced Financial Corporation, a diversified investment holding company, both based in Dallas, Texas.
He has assumed the operating roles of Board Member, Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer in several private, public and governmental organizations; and has acquired, structured or financed over 500 transactions in oil, gas, real estate and operating companies spanning his 30-year career. He currently serves as a member of the boards of directors of several private companies, is the immediate, past Chairman of Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation, a hospital in the multi-billion dollar Baylor Healthcare System, and is co-manager of Greer Ranch Company, Rafter G Ranch and J3 Ranch, a family-owned ranching operation in business continually since 1875 in Clay County, Texas,as well as a ranching and agricultural operation in Nacogdoches County, Texas that has been in his family since Texas was a country.
Mr. Greer is a graduate of Baylor University, with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance and Entrepreneurship. He is a sixth-generation Texan and a native of Henrietta, Texas. Mr. Greer is married with three daughters who are all proud seventh-generation Texans, who, on occasion, think he is a pretty cool dad.