Matthew is an experienced technology leader with almost 30 years of experience in engineering leadership, software, consulting, product development, and start-ups.
Matthew joined the London Office of BCG Digital Ventures in January 2016. His most recent role was Partner and Vice President of Engineering for the EMESA region. In 2023, with the launch of BCG X, Matthew moved into the leadership team of the X.DeepTech business unit, where he is working to bring the disruptive opportunities unlocked by deep technologies to BCG's clients and businesses. Over the last seven years, Matthew has been involved in a wide variety of Ventures, starting as the CTO of Coup in 2016 and moving on to Director, advisory, and other senior Leadership roles across diverse industry sectors such as industrial goods, finance and insurance, mobility, resources, e-commerce, and private equity. During his time here at BCG, Matthew has been involved in the ideation, incubation, and launch of about 30 internal or publicly launched client Ventures.
Before joining BCG, Matthew delivered highly complex technology systems in the telecommunications, financial services and payments sectors. Working with start-ups, product teams, and consulting organisations from Australia, Asia, and Europe, Matthew has helped to build everything from network analysers and flight simulators to high-performance mission-critical EFT payment transaction switches, online and mobile banking, and shared mobility platforms. He has been involved in a number of start-ups in Australia, including Distra (payments), TouchPass (security), Tillless (payments) and SaveMail (document storage), as well as consulting with banks and financial institutions with Carpadium Consulting.
Matthew blogs on Medium and used to bloviate on Twitter before moving to Mastodon, and is always happy to chat about anything to do with technology and the future. He has a Bachelor of Information Science from Newcastle University and an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management. He is also a non-fellow member of the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Enterprise Committee.
