Matt leads on the Financial Services and Digital Assets team. He joined in late 2024 from Kraken, a leading cryptoasset exchange, where he was Head of Policy and Government Relations for the UK and APAC.
Matt has worked in financial services policy since moving to London in 2013. Before his time at Kraken, he spent more than 5 years as a Director in Standard Chartered’s regulatory affairs team, where he focused on crypto and broader markets regulation across the bank’s global footprint. He previously held policy roles at Deutsche Bank and CME Group.
Matt is originally from Ottawa, Canada, where he worked for the Canadian government and a policy think tank before moving to the UK. Matt studied at Queen’s University (BA) and McMaster (MA) in Ontario and the University of British Columbia (PhD) in Vancouver.