Matt has over 20 years' experience working with the world's biggest brands and most successful startups, creating new ideas, developing strategies and building team capability to deliver them.

Focusing on smart and connected cities, urban mobility, sustainability and human-centred ideas and technology, Matt works alongside The House to identify where technology and creativity overlap to deliver commercial advantage.

Matt was formerly MD for Big Belly UK, the world leader in smart cities, smart waste and recycling. A global smart data business, Big Belly UK uses cloud-based technology to improve urban public spaces, give communities a better quality of life and deliver economic impact and revenue for its partners. Big Belly UK is both a Global Smart Cities Winner 2012/13 and a Sustainia 100 Winner.

"When you put real service at the heart of innovation, that’s when it tends to actually work. Effective solutions have to be human-led, not technology-led."