Matthew Pacella

Partner & General Counsel

Matthew R. Pacella currently serves as General Counsel and Operating Partner to a variety of technology companies and is an investor and partner in Auctus. Mr. Pacella’s portfolio includes VikingPeak Energy, a renewable energy facility development platform company, Ecogensus, a
waste to energy technology company RISK Technologies, a cyber-SaaS company, and Listing Leasing, a real estate SaaS company that the co-founded.

Prior to his work as an entrepreneur, Mr. Pacella served as Special Counsel at Jenner & Block in Chicago, where he helped to establish Jenner’s private equity practice with several other colleagues,
and as an Associate at Kirk Land & Ellis in Chicago. During his time at Jenner and Kirk Land, Mr. Pacella represented private equity funds and portfolio companies.

Mr. Pacella graduated cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., and magna cumlaude from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. Mr.Pacella lives in Pittsburgh, PA
with his wife Laine.