2025 Hall of Fame Inductees
Presented By: Datasite
Strategic Growth Partner
Traction Capital
Matt Meents is a high-growth entrepreneur turned investor and educator with 25+ years of experience building award-winning cultures and scaling companies. He co-founded and served as CEO of Magnet360, a leading Salesforce consulting partner acquired in 2016. In 2020, he co-founded and served as CEO of Yardstik, a VC-backed SaaS startup specializing in background checks for high-volume hiring. In January he transitioned to Yardstik’s Board and now serves as Strategic Growth Partner at Traction Capital and entrepreneurship professor at the University of St. Thomas, empowering founders and students to think bigger, move faster, and unlock their full potential.
Loren Unterseher
Managing Partner
Oxbow Industries
Loren has completed more than $2.5 billion in corporate finance transactions. Prior to Oxbow Industries, Loren was a Principal/Shareholder & Director of Mergers and Acquisitions for CraigHallum Capital Group. Prior to Craig-Hallum, he was Managing Director of Private Equity for Lazard Middle Market (f/k/a Goldsmith Agio Helms). Loren started his investment banking career as a Vice President in Mergers & Acquisitions at RBC (f/k/a Dain Rauscher). He began his professional career as an attorney and was a Partner at Stinson Leonard Street (f/k/a Leonard, Street & Deinard), a major Minneapolis based law firm. Loren holds a B.B.A. degree in Finance from the University of Iowa and a J.D. from the University of North Dakota. Loren has served on the board of directors for several private and non-profit companies. Loren is currently Chairman of the Board of Inno-Flex Corporation, LLC, and serves on the board of SixSpeed, LLC, Town & Country Fence, LLC, SkyWater Technology Foundry, Inc., Ascent Solutions, LLC, and Insignia Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISIG). He was formerly a member of the board of Pool Distribution, LLC, Q4 Holdings, LLC and HydroEngineering, LLC.