Seth Zalkin

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Mr. Seth Zalkin is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at The Astor Group. Mr. Zalkin co-founded and served as Chairman & Operating Partner at Brooklyn Brands. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Board Member at Matter Unlimited. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Board Member at Creative State. He provides strategic and financial advice to Matter, drawing on his deep experience advising some of the world's leading businesses and brands on mergers, acquisitions, sales, and capital raises. He has also served as CEO of, and successfully sold, venture-backed food and beverage, technology, and media companies to both public and private companies and has been widely quoted in publications such as the New York Times, Forbes, Inc. Magazine, and Venture Equity Latin America. Heh began his professional career as a corporate attorney with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison where he executed mergers and acquisitions and negotiated private equity transactions for clients such as the New York Yankees, Warner Music, Soros Fund Management, Sirius Satellite Radio, the New Jersey Nets, and Playtex Products. Prior to working at Paul, Weiss, he was recruited by American Management Systems to help build a strategic consulting practice. He serves on numerous corporate boards and was admitted to the New York bar. Additionally, he serves on the board of directors of the Developing Minds Foundation, a foundation that builds schools and supports education programs in communities affected by violence and poverty in North and South America. He received a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law and a B.A. from Duke University with honors.