Sorrell Mathes

Sorrell M. Mathes is Chairman of The Mathes Company, Inc., a New York-based investment adviser established in 1997 and registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm manages discretionary portfolios for U.S. and overseas investors, including individuals and institutions, and its only office is in New York City.

Before founding The Mathes Company, Mathes held senior investment-banking and asset-management roles. His firm biography says he was a Managing Director at Merrill Lynch, where he headed Emerging Growth Companies and Technology Investment Banking and served as Chairman of Merrill Lynch Venture Capital. He later became Managing Director and head of Corporate Finance at Prudential Securities and spent two years as President of Clariden Asset Management (New York) Inc., a Clariden Bank Zurich subsidiary. Earlier, he was a Managing Director at Warburg Paribas Becker before its acquisition by Merrill Lynch.

Mathes has served on corporate boards including HTH Worldwide / Highway to Health, Swiss Re Alternative Assets LLC, Securitas Capital, SalvageSale, Fox-Pitt Kelton Group Limited, Nascent Group S.A., Whatman plc, Starrett Housing Corporation, BIW Cable Company, Novametrix Medical Systems, Gulf Republic Financial Corp., and Potomac Homes Holding Corporation. He also chaired The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary board before its merger into the Mount Sinai hospital system.

His education is listed in The Mathes Company materials and the firm’s 2026 Form ADV brochure supplement as a BA from Cornell University and an MBA from Columbia University. The Form ADV supplement lists his year of birth as 1936 and his recent business background as Chairman of The Mathes Company, Inc.

• The Mathes Company describes its public-equity approach as combining “a top down view of global macroeconomic conditions” with “fundamental analysis.”
• The firm says it is generalist but tends to favor large-capitalization companies and is both value-oriented and growth-oriented.
• The firm’s stated geographic emphasis is mostly U.S. and Western Europe-domiciled companies, while also seeking opportunities in global markets.
• For private investments, The Mathes Company highlights Mathes’s role as Chairman of the Investment Management Committee of Securitas Capital and as a member of Swiss Re’s private-equity Investment Committee.
• Foundersuite lists Sorrell Mathes as an Angel Investors / HNW investor with Seed Round stage focus, but primary firm sources do not publish a current startup check size or active seed-investment mandate.