Matt Shoup

Matt was born and spent the early years of his life in New Jersey. At the age of 10, his family moved to Loveland, and he has been thrilled to call Northern Colorado home for the past 25 years. He attended high school in Loveland, and went on to study at Colorado State University in 1999. While there, his passion for business, entrepreneurship and Spanish was ignited. He was presented with two amazing opportunities while at CSU: one was to study abroad in Spain, which he did his spring semester of 2002; the other was to work for a college painting company during his college years. After graduating CSU in 2003, Matt married his college sweetheart, Emily, in 2004, and they settled down in Northern Colorado. He quickly found out the corporate world was not for him when he was “let go” from a local bank. With the last $100 he had to his name, he founded M & E Painting in March of ...