Matthew A. Schneider is an entrepreneur, researcher, and international speaker whose work connects real estate, financial markets, and digital infrastructure. He is the founder and CEO of Building and host of Code & Concrete.
Matthew’s career has taken him across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, from international stages to private discussions with business and public leaders. Those encounters inform an independent perspective on how industries evolve and how institutions make decisions. He brings these worlds together through his own ventures, research, and public voice.
Matthew’s work centers on a practical question: what makes a physical asset ready to participate in modern financial markets? His focus spans the quality of property information, the governance surrounding it, and the systems that allow institutions to use it with confidence.
Through Building, he develops information infrastructure for real estate finance. Through research and public engagement, he examines how verified data, valuation, compliance, and emerging technologies can support more reliable financial decisions. His experience brings together company building, applied research, and industry dialogue across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
His earlier work in real estate tokenization exposed the legal, valuation, and data challenges that persist after an asset is represented digitally. That experience informs his current emphasis on information continuity, auditability, and the institutional requirements for financial execution.
2024–present
Matthew leads Building’s strategy, product development, commercialization, and capital formation. The company develops trusted information infrastructure for real estate finance, organizing property data and its source evidence into persistent Asset Records that support diligence, underwriting, valuation, and ongoing oversight.
2025–present
At the Foundation for International Blockchain and Real Estate Expertise, Matthew contributes to strategic direction, research, and collaboration on real estate digitalization. His involvement builds on research and educational contributions since 2020 and corporate membership in 2024–2025.
2026–present
Advising a GovTech initiative on digital infrastructure for public finance, including system architecture, data verification, and the transparent tracking and reporting of government incentive programs.
2026–present
Supporting product and system development, startup growth, and fundraising strategy.
2025–2026
Contributed to dialogue on digital securities, tokenized real-world assets, regulatory frameworks, and institutional readiness.
2024–2025
Supported industry education and stakeholder engagement around blockchain policy and adoption.
2021–2024
Explored digital asset structures for real estate ownership and financing. That operating experience helped shape his later focus on asset data quality, governance, and the infrastructure needed for institutional participation.
Matthew writes about the informational and governance foundations of real estate finance: how property claims are recorded, how evidence supports their use, and how reliable asset information can move between institutions.
His publications examine claim-based Asset Records, cryptographic verification of built environment data, and the conditions that allow physical assets to enter digital capital markets. His wider commentary covers tokenization, financial infrastructure, AI, and the role of data in private markets.
Read papers & publications →On stage and behind closed doors, Matthew speaks with the people building companies, directing capital, and shaping public policy. His international engagements bring a founder’s firsthand experience into conversations where emerging ideas meet institutional decisions.
Matthew contributes to conferences, panels, webinars, and academic discussions on real estate digitalization, asset information, and financial technology. His guest lectures and invited teaching include Syracuse University, Emory University, James Madison University, and Li Po Chun United World College.
He addresses interdisciplinary audiences across real estate, finance, architecture, and technology, connecting emerging concepts to their practical and institutional requirements.
As host of Code & Concrete, he brings together practitioners working across the built environment and financial markets. The archive includes conversations with Paul Doherty, Ian Cain, Ralph Montague, and other founders, researchers, and industry leaders.
Explore speaking →Matthew’s education spans business, real estate, financial markets, and digital systems. His continued professional development includes coursework and training with MIT, Harvard University, IBM, and Chainlink in areas such as blockchain infrastructure, financial innovation, and data systems.
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