Michael Barrer

VP, Head of ETF Capital Markets

Michael Barrer is VP, Head of ETF Capital Markets at Matthews. In his role, Michael serves at the primary relationship manager for the broader capital markets community, including authorized participants, market makers, exchanges and other liquidity providers. He also partners with the firm’s portfolio management, portfolio strategy, operations and distribution teams to support the firm’s ETF initiatives. Prior to joining Matthews in 2022, Michael was at WisdomTree for almost 10 years, most recently as Director of Capital Markets responsible for managing and maintaining existing and creating new relationships with trading community making markets in WisdomTree’s global suite of ETFs. Michael began his career in finance as an equity and ETF proprietary trader, followed by two years at Merrill Lynch in an investment-related role. He received a B.S. in Information Management & Technology from Syracuse University.