Our Team

Ocean Exchange Team

Matthias Gundlach

Founding Partner, Coastal Breeze Partners

Matthias is a founding partner of Coastal Breeze Partners and has 25 years of investing, merger & acquisition and corporate finance experience.

Matthias has completed over 30 transactions for businesses across multiple jurisdictions, sectors and types. Prior to founding Coastal Breeze, Matthias served as Managing Director at OpenGate Capital, a global lower-to-middle market private equity firm. As Head of OpenGate’s North American industrials investment team, Matthias focused on transformational value creation opportunities in chemicals, ingredients, building products, industrials and distribution. Prior to OpenGate, Matthias was a Vice President at Sun European Partners, the London based investment arm of Sun Capital Partners, a global private equity firm focused on investing in lower and middle market companies. Prior to Sun Capital, Matthias worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs in Frankfurt and at Deutsche Bank in London. As part of a dual degree Matthias received a Master of Business Administration from University of Pittsburgh, KATZ Graduate School of Business and a Master of Business Administration from EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht.

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“The delegates are a very strategically chosen body of individuals. Virtually everyone who attends Ocean Exchange has the capacity to open doors.”

“When you bring an eclectic mix of highly intelligent, passionate people together, that’s when lightning strikes.”

“Ocean Exchange is entirely different from any of the other organizations that I’m involved in. It is about sustainable innovation. I think it’s also very different in the extremely broad range of stakeholders that it involves.”