Matthias Pries is Manager, Investments at WES, where he is responsible for the organization’s catalytic impact investing portfolio, providing capital to early-stage ventures and emerging fund managers who are advancing economic and educational inclusion for underserved and overlooked communities across Canada and the U.S.
Matthias brings significant experience working at the intersection of capital and impact. He has worked globally and domestically across private, public, and social sectors, advising investors on capital deployment, supporting social enterprises in capital raising, developing impact investing strategy for government, and structuring new impact investment funds and products. Matthias has facilitated impact investments in a wide range of areas, among them education technology, financial inclusion, workforce development, affordable housing, health care, and climate change.
Outside of his work with WES, Matthias is an investment committee member for an impact investment fund in his home province of Manitoba, as well as for a small family office with a global impact portfolio. He is also a frequent mentor to young professionals seeking to start their careers in impact investing. He has a MSc in Climate Change Finance and Investment from the University of Edinburgh and a B.ES in Environment and Business from the University of Waterloo.
