Strategic Value Partners has appointed longtime Goldman Sachs executive Matt Gibson as President, adding a senior leader with more than 25 years of experience across investment banking, asset management and global client businesses.
Gibson will join SVP in February 2027 after spending his entire post-military career at Goldman Sachs, including 16 years as a partner. Most recently, he has led the Global Client Business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management, overseeing more than 1,000 sales and product specialist professionals across institutional, wealth and insurance distribution channels.
As President, Gibson will oversee SVP’s non-investment activities, including client relations and firmwide infrastructure, while helping lead longer-term strategic initiatives designed to build on the firm’s existing alternative investment platform.
He will also remain involved in investment-related activity through deal sourcing in sectors where he has significant experience, including power and infrastructure. Gibson will join SVP’s management and investment committees and report to founder and Chief Investment Officer Victor Khosla.
SVP is a global alternative investment firm with approximately $22 billion in assets under management.
The firm invests across opportunistic strategies including performing and event-driven debt, hybrid capital solutions, infrastructure, real estate, power, aviation and special situations private equity.
Since its founding in 2001, SVP has invested more than $60 billion of capital.
The firm employs more than 200 people, including more than 100 investment professionals, across offices in Greenwich, Connecticut, New York and London, along with presences in Tokyo and Dubai.
Gibson’s background provides SVP with experience across both investment banking and the distribution side of asset management as the firm continues expanding its platform.
He joined Goldman Sachs in 2001 and became a partner in 2010.
During his tenure, Gibson led Goldman Sachs’ Power and Infrastructure investment banking team and later served as global co-head of Investment Banking Services, the firm’s client coverage organization.
He also served as co-head of the One Goldman Sachs initiative and co-head of the Technology, Media and Telecommunications Group.
Since 2022, Gibson has led Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s Global Client Business, where his responsibilities have extended across institutional, wealth and insurance distribution, alternative product specialists, marketing, strategy and sales support.
That experience could become particularly relevant as SVP continues broadening relationships with institutional and wealth-management investors while scaling a platform that spans several alternative asset classes.
Gibson’s appointment also brings additional experience in power and infrastructure, sectors in which SVP already operates and where he will continue participating in deal sourcing.
SVP maintains in-house operating capabilities intended to support portfolio companies and hard assets, including operating platforms focused on power, retail real estate and aviation.
Before joining Goldman Sachs, Gibson served as a surface warfare officer in the U.S. Navy.
His move to SVP gives the alternative investment firm a senior executive with experience managing large organizations, advising major investors and building client businesses across public and private markets.
KEY QUOTES:
“This is an exciting moment for SVP. Matt is an exceptional fit for where the firm is today and as we continue to meet the growing, complex demands of the business.”
“Matt brings experience in leading and managing significant businesses at Goldman Sachs and advising many of the world’s top investors.”
Victor Khosla, Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Strategic Value Partners
“What attracted me to SVP is the quality of the platform they have built and the consistently strong results the team has generated over a long period of time.”
“SVP has a highly experienced, long tenured investment team with differentiated sourcing, disciplined investment processes, strong alignment and an intense focus on performing for clients.”
Matt Gibson, Incoming President of Strategic Value Partners
