After further developing his proprietary ERP solution, TIAS ResiPro ™, Jordan formed the firm’s vertically-integrated Build US Back® line of companies as its operating platform to research, select, acquire, renovate, rent and, at the right time, resell properties in-house; becoming the subject of a 2014 Harvard Business School case study entitled, "Build U.S. Back: Opportunities in the U.S. housing market."

Prior to launching Transcendent, Jordan successfully formed and grew an international high-tech toy company in Hong Kong and China, which he sold in 2003 to return to the U.S. and co-found JL Real Ventures, a private equity fund that assembled a portfolio of multi-family properties in the Southeastern United States.

Jordan earned his B.A. in Hospitality Management and Finance from Florida International University, pursued graduate-level studies in real estate finance at Harvard University and is a graduate of Harvard Business School’s OPM program. He served as a trustee on the Florida State Pension Plan Board, which oversees $127.8 billion in total assets and currently serves on the Advisory Board for Aviator Capital Management, a full service commercial passenger aircraft leasing and management firm based in Miami, Florida.

Most recently, Jordan received inclusion into Latin Trade’s TOP 100 Most Powerful Businesspeople listing of 2017.

Portfolio oversight includes identifying and negotiating strategic acquisitions, spearheading joint venture relationships, and managing the development process of existing sites. To date, construction has begun on one rental community with more than 2,000 units in the pipeline for development throughout Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas with planned expansion to Colorado and Utah.

Prior to Harvard Investments, Mathew was Vice president of Acquisitions at Progress Residential, a national single-family REIT with over 30k homes, where he oversaw and managed development of multiple new acquisition channels including strategic national homebuilder relationships, new construction, Build to Rent and single family rental portfolios.

Mathew’s on-going commitment and passion for learning new things and helping others has lead him to teaching and mentoring young people as a professor of Real Estate Finance and Investment at Arizona State University, W.P. Carey School of Business. In his rare, but valued down-time, he enjoys mountain biking, hiking and anything outdoors with his wife and two children.