Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Enterprise seller and AI specialist with 12+ years in financial services, blending C-suite consultative sales and pre-sales leadership with deep LLM/agentic expertise. Supported $350M in enterprise AI sales through executive engagement, solution shaping and asset-led sales, helping to bring 22 production solutions to life across banks, insurers, wealth and capital market clients. Advocate for safe, responsible AI. A transformative AI leader who built and scaled Accenture's AI Lab across UK, Ireland & Africa, led 50+ person capability building reusable demos, microservices and evaluation suites that de-risk approvals in regulated enterprises. Matt delivered one of Europe's first enterprise scale customer-facing GenAI chatbot. Matt's strategic vision encompasses the full AI lifecycle from R&D through scaling, while maintaining hands-on involvement in cutting-edge AI development. He combines deep technical expertise with commercial acumen and holds a PhD in Computational Physics.
Matt built from the ground up a dynamic research and development capability that collaborated with leading financial and customer-centric institutions and academic partners to pioneer the next generation of AI-powered products and services. He secured and managed multi-million pound funding for an internal lab, seamlessly integrating this capability with client-funded labs & projects. The resulting 50-strong capability facilitated both rapid innovation and more measured R&D to create transformative solutions across banking, insurance and capital market sectors as well as industries outside of financial services. As the Generative AI wave has hit and clients have moved into implementation, Matt has overseen multiple client engagements with a particular focus on enabling LLM-powered assets to be productionised. He frequently advises on compliant Gen AI solution architectures, drives forward the development of novel test & monitoring capabilities, while ensuring AI change remains human-centred in its design. Matt is therefore able to guide stakeholders to production and unlock genuine business value in this emerging arena. Three of his client projects hit production in 2024 in highly regulated and customer-centric industries. By placing himself at the cross-section of innovation, sales and client delivery, the assets created by his capability played a pivotal role in supporting over $350 million in direct client sales over three years, with Matt often driving these sales directly with clients up to C-suite level.
Roles included: Analytics Portfolio Manager at a large UK building society with accountability for data science op model refresh and analytics strategy. Further responsibilities included product owner for cloud analytics platform, FY budget business case and representation at senior governance boards. Capital Markets Data & Analytics 'go-to-market' lead with responsibilities including FY sales strategy & forecast, orchestrating SMEs and client teams to develop propositions and proposals for investment banks and market infrastructure players. Programme Manager for public sector health body coordinating rapid responses across multiple departments and public health institutions to deliver operational improvement and ensure high standards of data and information governance, reporting directly to CDO & CIO. Financial Crime Analytics Manager at a multinational universal bank. Leading a team of data scientists, data engineers and data management experts to complete a technical review of the client’s programme to move to risk-based customer due diligence practices. Oversaw thorough data quality assessments and introduced their analytics team to data science and engineering best practice. Implemented recommendations across model design, explainability, auditability, code modularization and bias to enable the solution scale globally and pass-through stringent governance controls. Business Intelligence Strategy Manager at a large UK retail bank with responsibilities of strategy development and dissemination, increasing internal demand for BI services including proposition development & assessment. Product Manager for the development of Tableau-based management information for a multibillion-pound p.a. change programme at a large UK retail bank with a strong emphasis on information design and user research.
Five years in Trading and Risk practice working on client site as a business analyst, project manager and product manager for large energy trading clients. Designed and delivered system integration solutions for Transaction Reporting under EMIR and REMIT as a BA/Design Lead. Project Manager for trade monitoring and surveillance solutions, coordinating multi-functional teams of up to 15. Product Manager for cutting-edge analytics based monitoring capabilities in reaction to MAR regulation and FERC enforcement actions. Senior PM delivering MIFID2 solutions across multiple scrum teams. Deep experience leading project delivery under waterfall and agile methodologies.
Project manager at specialist consultancy for education, learning and development. Delivered STEM (science, technology, engineering, maths) strategies for further education (FE) colleges; conducted education, learning and development assessments in FE college and Nuclear sectors; developed and coordinated industry-specific training for college lecturers; developed industry-college relationships and collaboration. Responsibilities also included sales and pipeline management.