Commitment to all Students

As founder of Mass Education, educational entrepreneur Matthew B. Massman is always ahead of the curve, in bringing to life enhanced educational opportunities for today’s students. With the launch of Mass Education,  Massman is yet again making good on his promise to augment education and educational facilities, thereby creating opportunities for students of all ages, while supporting diverse communities.

Massman’s previous successes in education include the successful launch of Game Learning, an online educational gaming platform providing educational content publishers & school districts access to award-winning educational video games for students ages 5+.  

Previously, Massman launched and sold VINCI Academy in partnership with  Dr. Dan Yang.  VINCI Academy provides an environment where young minds receive an unmatched early childhood education, based on the VINCI blended learning curriculum. To date, VINCI Academies have educated hundreds of thousands of children in China, Canada and the United States.

As Principle of Mass Equity, Massman successfully unified a select group of leading investors and real estate developers, to deliver private equity into the public education field through hand-selected financial and real estate options for charter schools and school districts. Mass Equity remains a privately held real estate development company specializing in pre-K-12 school facilities.

Massman’s dedication to improving the educational space for students of all ages, across all demographics, continues to help shape the future of generations to come.

Al Grazioli has more than 30 years of experience developing and managing complex real estate projects and forging P3 partnerships, as well as providing strategic real estate advice to individuals, public and private institutions, governments, and corporations worldwide.

He is an expert in the areas of site selection, due diligence, planning, design, development, and marketing. He has also led or played a crucial role in a multitude of corporate initiatives; writing or crafting laws and legislation for domestic and foreign governments, developing a program for workforce housing, securing vouchers for families experiencing homelessness, and developing wellness clinics.

Hanna Kamaric is Associate Director of Finance and Strategy at WelbeHealth. She works in fields related to strategic finance, real estate development, and FP&A. Before WelbeHealth, Hanna started her career in public finance at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and worked for Turner Impact Capital in Santa Monica, building charter schools, housing, and health clinics.

Kamaric holds a BA and BS from The University of Pennsylvania and is passionate about social policy issues in and around Los Angeles. This passion led her to pursue an MS in Comparative Social Policy at Oxford University where she studied the impact of income inequality on the rates of private school attendance in California.

Adam S. Gold is the Chief Investment Officer of Katam Hill LLC. Katam Hill focuses on global growth investing across the public equity markets. Prior to founding Katam Hill in 2019, Gold served as a financial advisor at Merrill Lynch in Century City, California. Previously in his career, Gold was the Founder and General Partner of Espial Capital, a New York City and Menlo Park-based investment management firm that invested in both public securities and private consumer and enterprise technology companies.

Gold’s vast experience includes serving as a portfolio manager at Gilder Gagnon Howe & Co. (GGHC), a New York-based investment adviser and brokerage firm focusing on global growth investing. Before joining GGHC, Adam served as a research analyst at Coatue Management, a technology-focused hedge fund manager.

Gold holds a degree in Finance and General Accounting, with a Minor in Journalism & Mass Communication, from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

His philanthropic endeavor, the Espial Foundation, started in 2012 to help educate future innovators by improving the health and wellness of children around the world.

For more than 20 years, Simon Hakakian has been immersed in real estate investing. As a long-time real estate investor based in Southern California, he plays an integral role in managing his firm’s real estate portfolio which includes more than 100 properties in Southern California. Nationwide, the firm counts more than 140 properties in Arizona, Connecticut, Nevada, Hawaii, Indiana, New York, New Jersey, Utah, Florida, Ohio, and Virginia.

Hakakian’s expertise includes direct equity investments, acquisitions, development, entitlements, leasing, financing, asset management, and property management. His value-add services are provided to commercial, residential, industrial, and agricultural properties in diverse communities.

Previously, Hakakian spent the early years of his career in construction lending, with an emphasis on restructuring non-performing debt, in the years that followed the 2008 recession. He earned his degree in Business from the University of Southern California.