Palo Duro Capital Team

Matthew Golden is a Partner with Palo Duro Capital, a lower middle market private equity firm based in Dallas, Texas. Prior to founding Palo Duro Capital, Matthew focused on acquisitions in the industrial, specialty chemical and building products sectors for Capital Southwest Corporation (NASDAQ: CSWC), a publicly-traded private equity firm with approximately $800 million in assets under management, and subsequently led the acquisition efforts for CSW Industrials, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSWI) upon its spin-off from Capital Southwest Corporation in October of 2015. Prior to Capital Southwest, Matthew spent seven years with Hunt Investment Group, a Dallas-based private equity firm affiliated with Ray L. Hunt. Matthew began his career as a financial analyst in Merrill Lynch’s corporate investment banking group in New York. Matthew received an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BBA in Accounting from the University of Texas at Austin. Matthew resides in Dallas, TX with his wife and two children.