Matthew Le Merle
| Matthew C. Le Merle | |
|---|---|
| Born | London, England |
| Residence |
Tiburon, California Château d'Oigny-en-Valois |
| Nationality | USA and UK |
| Alma mater |
Oxford University (MA, Double First) Stanford University Graduate School of Business (MBA) |
| Occupation | Investor and Advisor |
| Title | Managing Partner of Fifth Era and Keiretsu Capital |
Matthew Le Merle (born January 18, 1962) is a superangel investor and advisor to leading companies including eBay, Google, Shanshan and Talkweb. He is Managing Partner at Fifth Era and Keiretsu Capital based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Le Merle is Chairman of the US advisory boards of Shanshan Group and Yurun Group, two of China's largest companies and is a Board Director or Advisory Board Director at private companies including 1World Online, ApplePie Capital, Concept Art House, Evertold, and Perkville. He was formerly Chairman of Telltale Games. He is an active angel investor and a member of The Band of Angels and Keiretsu Forum.
Le Merle's first job was as a paper delivery boy in South East London. Early summer jobs included soldering printed circuit boards, selling men's suits and mattresses at Harrods of London and working as a silver service waiter across the banqueting halls and five star hotels of London.
In 1980 he was made a management trainee at National Westminster Bank. On graduation from Oxford, he was a consultant with McKinsey & Company, Inc. in New York and London. While with McKinsey, he was a member of the Firm's Consumer, Retail, Corporate Finance and Salesforce Effectiveness practices.
In 1986 McKinsey sponsored Le Merle to attend Stanford Graduate School of Business where he graduated with an MBA. While at Stanford, Le Merle acquired his pilot's license and worked with BT Capital (leveraged buyouts) in New York, and Bankers Trust Venture Capital in London.
From 1992 to 1999 Le Merle was a consultant at AT Kearney a global management consulting firm. Beginning as a founding member of the firm's Financial Institutions Group in New York, he joined the San Francisco office in 1994 where he served as Western U.S. Practice Leader until his departure from the firm in 1999. As consultant Le Merle advised several of the largest companies in the world on issues of strategy, operations, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, alliances and turnarounds.
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