Matt has more than 10 years of strategy consulting experience with the Boston Consulting Group.

He started with the firm in Auckland in 1996. Over the following 14 years he gained experience in the pharmaceutical and telecommunications industries, and with consumer products and industrial goods companies. He was a member of the telecommunications, corporate development, and strategy practices. As a Principal in the Australasian system, he focused primarily on the development of divisional growth strategies for large corporates in Australia and New Zealand.

Between 1998 and 2004, he was based in the United States, working for BCG in Boston for two years before gaining his MBA at Stanford University. He then spent 2 years assisting high growth New Zealand technology businesses while working for NZTE in New Zealand’s Consulate-General in Los Angeles. From 2006 until 2009 he also sat on the Advisory Board of the ICEHOUSE, a prominent New Zealand technology incubator.

Matt has an MBA from Stanford University, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. He also has a Master of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Auckland.