Matt joined LSE Research and Innovation in March 2020 and supports academics across LSE in the development of research ideas from conception to full market exploitation. 

He is a thought leader in SMART Specialisation and Applied Open Innovation with first class people and problem solving skills. He excels in translating corporate challenges into new business opportunities and has extensive experience of creating and growing new businesses both as standalone entities or new business divisions of much larger organisations.

He was initially responsible for the creation and growth of one of the largest automotive contract hire companies in the UK and went on to create a number of other business ventures throughout the UK, including: an enterprise management services company specialising in supply chain management; a tracking services company protecting high value mobile assets and vulnerable people and an online auction company providing a used vehicle remarketing service to the automotive trade community in the UK. 

Previously, Matt worked with Oxford Innovation to deliver the Northumberland High Growth Coaching programme, coaching and mentoring high growth, innovative businesses to achieve transformational development. He also worked with Newcastle Science City where he was responsible for the design, implementation and management of the highly successful Business Opportunities Insight programme: an open innovation project that leveraged academic excellence to translate corporate and social challenges into fully critiqued commercial business opportunities and harnessed collaborative networks to identify and develop innovative turnkey solutions to unmet market needs. 

Matt received his MBA from the Open University in 1999.