Matt is a senior consultant experienced in project, digital transformation, agile and product with over 15 years’ experience leading companies through transformations.

As a consultant Matt has in-depth experience in the financial services (Lloyds Banking Group & Barclays) , pharma/healthcare (GSK, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Alexion, Millipore Sigma, Informa Pharma Intelligence, Citeline, VHI) and FMCG (Haleon, Symrise).

Key Skills

  • Bringing successful digital products and services to market

  • Driving teams to bring physical products to market

  • People coaching

  • Tech Transformations

  • Innovation sprints

  • Strategyzer business model design and coaching

  • Delivering products and services in heavily regulated industries

  • Heading up product teams

  • Product strategy, development and innovation

  • Creating and sustaining high performing teams

  • Customer and stakeholder engagement

  • Delivering sustainable people, process and technology change

  • Embedding modern ways of working coaching

  • Operating model design and implementation

Global experience

An understanding of different cultures is a key attribute of Acend people. Matt has worked with organizations and teams in:

  • UK

  • USA

  • Canada

  • Europe

  • Brazil

  • Kuala Lumpur

  • India

  • Japan

  • Indonesia

Professional credentials

  • BA Hons. Computing for Business – Northumbria University

  • Strategyzer Innovation Coach

  • VFQ Agile Practitioner

  • VFQ Agile Product Management Practitioner

Previous experience highlights

Clinical Product Lead at Informa Pharma Intelligence

Leading a multifunctional team across strategic clinical trial product development, engineering, business development, GTM and tech to develop a flagship AI clinical trial platform to increase trial participation rates across the world, using real world data.

Responsibilities :

  • Designed and created product strategy with a linked outcome based roadmap aligning business drivers and customer value

  • Moved department from waterfall, big bang deployments to delivering working features every 4 weeks

  • Created well-structured product teams instead of separate entities within tech towers

  • Introduced experimentation to test assumptions

  • Managed multiple vendors for the creation and scaling of the flagship AI product

Outcome

Vastly improved customer value time to market as well as a saving of over £100,000 per month by not building undesirable features.  Finally, a group of people working as 1 team with a common goal.

Senior Innovation Consultant with Strategyzer

Leading innovation sprints and business model training with large, global clients

Responsibilities :

  • Leading teams through innovation sprints

  • Training distributed teams on the use of business models, value canvases, customer profiles and customer interviews.

  • Guiding teams through innovation test design and execution

Outcome

Took a multi-million pound business case that had been stalled for over 5 years and brought this back to life with a test and learn based approach.  Leading the team through ideation, design and execution of the innovation sprint, which resulted in the business understanding that they could achieve 80% of the original desired outcomes with only a spend of around $200,000 (down from a projected $5 million).  This unlocked potential revenues in the region of $7.5 million.