{"id":5700,"date":"2025-05-27T20:19:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T20:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\/?page_id=5700"},"modified":"2026-05-26T21:07:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:07:32","slug":"bot-kiel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\/governance\/board-of-trustees\/bot-kiel\/","title":{"rendered":"BOT Kiel"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-secondary\">\n  <div class=\"relative bg-black\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"adhere object-cover\" src=\"\/media\/university\/050323-pomona-campus-from-hec-001.jpg\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"A tropical courtyard with palm trees.\">\n      <div class=\"adhere gradient-overlay\"><\/div>\n        <div class=\"relative container pt-56 md:pt-112 pb-144 md:pb-192\">\n      <div class=\"md:flex md:justify-between px-12\">\n        <div class=\"sm:w-8\/12 md:w-6\/12 xl:w-5\/12 px-12\">\n                      <div class=\"mb-20\">\n              <div class=\"block font-sans font-bold text-14 text-white leading-130\">\n  <span class=\"inline-block\">\n    <a href=\"\/\" class=\"block hover:underline\">WesternU<\/a>\n  <\/span>\n      <span class=\"inline-block mx-6\">\/<\/span>\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\" class=\"inline-block hover:underline\">About WesternU<\/a>\n          <span class=\"inline-block mx-6\">\/<\/span>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\/governance\/\" class=\"inline-block hover:underline\">Governance<\/a>\n    <span class=\"inline-block mx-6\">\/<\/span>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\/governance\/board-of-trustees\/\" class=\"inline-block hover:underline\">Board of Trustees<\/a>\n    <span class=\"inline-block mx-6\">\/<\/span>\n    <span class=\"inline-block\">Matt S. Kiel<\/span>\n  <\/div>            <\/div>\n                                        <h1 class=\"t-h1-sans  text-white\">Matt S. Kiel<\/h1>\n        <\/div>\n              <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"tertiary-nav\">\n  <div class=\"container\">\n        <nav class=\"relative mx-24 py-10 px-20 rounded-b-5 md:rounded-b-8 bg-gray shadow-md mb-40\">\n      <ul class=\"grid lg:grid-cols-[1fr_auto_1fr_auto_1fr_auto_1fr] lg:gap-x-16 lg:justify-items-center lg:text-center\"> <!-- 4 columns layout, 1 column in mobile -->\n                            <li class=\"my-8\">\n            <a class=\"text-16 font-normal leading-130 tracking-20 text-black hover:text-red hover:underline transition-default\" href=\"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\/governance\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Governance<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n                                              <div class=\"vertical-line hidden lg:block w-1 invisible bg-red mt-8\"><\/div>\n                                      <li class=\"my-8\">\n            <a class=\"text-16 font-normal leading-130 tracking-20 text-black hover:text-red hover:underline transition-default\" href=\"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\/governance\/board-of-trustees\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Board of Trustees<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n                                              <div class=\"vertical-line hidden lg:block w-1 invisible bg-red mt-8\"><\/div>\n                                      <li class=\"my-8\">\n            <a class=\"text-16 font-normal leading-130 tracking-20 text-black hover:text-red hover:underline transition-default\" href=\"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\/governance\/president\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">President<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n                                              <div class=\"vertical-line hidden lg:block w-1 invisible bg-red mt-8\"><\/div>\n                                      <li class=\"my-8\">\n            <a class=\"text-16 font-normal leading-130 tracking-20 text-black hover:text-red hover:underline transition-default\" href=\"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\/governance\/ueot\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">University Executive Operations Team<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n                                      <li class=\"my-8\">\n            <a class=\"text-16 font-normal leading-130 tracking-20 text-black hover:text-red hover:underline transition-default\" href=\"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\/governance\/deans-council\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Deans\u2019 Council<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n                                              <div class=\"vertical-line hidden lg:block w-1 invisible bg-red mb-8\"><\/div>\n                                      <li class=\"my-8\">\n            <a class=\"text-16 font-normal leading-130 tracking-20 text-black hover:text-red hover:underline transition-default\" href=\"\/university\/governance\/academic-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Academic Senate<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n                                              <div class=\"vertical-line hidden lg:block w-1 invisible bg-red mb-8\"><\/div>\n                                      <li class=\"my-8\">\n            <a class=\"text-16 font-normal leading-130 tracking-20 text-black hover:text-red hover:underline transition-default\" href=\"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\/governance\/staff-council\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Staff Council<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n                                              <div class=\"vertical-line hidden lg:block w-1 invisible bg-red mb-8\"><\/div>\n                                      <li class=\"my-8\">\n            <a class=\"text-16 font-normal leading-130 tracking-20 text-black hover:text-red hover:underline transition-default\" href=\"\/students\/student-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Student Government Association<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n                        <\/ul>\n    <\/nav>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"relative my-48 md:my-72\">\n  <div class=\"container\">\n    <div class=\"lg:flex px-12 lg:justify-center\">\n      \n      \n                  \n                  \n      <div class=\"w-full px-24 wysiwyg-content xl:w-10\/12 2xl:w-9\/12\">\n        <h2><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5693 alignleft\" src=\"\/media\/university\/images\/board-of-trustees\/matt-s.-kiel.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a dark suit, white shirt, and red tie stands in front of a blurred indoor background, smiling at the camera.\" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" \/>Matt S. Kiel<br \/>\nMember, Board of Trustees<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Matt Kiel is a corporate attorney and Senior Counsel at Foley &amp; Lardner LLP serving in the firm\u2019s Transactions Practice Group, with a primary focus on mergers and acquisitions. He has extensive private equity firms, issuers, underwriters, and businesses across industries in a wide range of acquisitions, divestitures,\u00a0and corporate finance and capital markets transactions. Mr. Kiel works with both public and private companies across sectors, including in technology, aerospace, manufacturing, food and beverage, and energy. He received a bachelor\u2019s degree in cognitive psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz and earned a J.D. from the University of Oregon School of Law.<\/p>\n\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":246,"featured_media":0,"parent":82,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-5700","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5700"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6292,"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5700\/revisions\/6292"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}