George Matelich

George joined Kelso in 1985.  He spent the preceding two years in the Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Finance departments at Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb.  He has served as a director of more than 20 former Kelso affiliated companies and as lead director of two public companies.  George earned an M.B.A. from the Stanford GSB in 1982 and a B.A. in Business Administration, summa cum laude, from the University of Puget Sound in 1978. He was a C.P.A. and holds a C.M.A.

He served as American Prairie’s Board Chairman from 2013 to 2024 and has been a director since 2008. American Prairie is a privately funded organization working to build America’s largest grassland public park, and he is a director of Bridger Trust Company and a few small private companies in which he and his family have invested. George is also an advisory director of the Revs Institute and is an advisor to the Investment Committees of the New York Botanical Garden and the University of Puget Sound. He served from 2010 for 6 years on the Stanford GSB Advisory Council and he was treasurer of the University of Puget Sound Board of Trustees, where he served from 1989 for 23 years.