Matthew is a retired Chartered Tax Advisor with over 35 years’ experience in advising employers on how to remunerate and reward their employees, with a focus on compliance and governance. He has provided counsel to blue chip clients in the public, private and third sector across all parts of the economy.

Having previously worked at HMRC and PwC, Matthew led KPMG’s People Services practice until 2021 with responsibility for over 500 team members in multiple locations across the UK. He has extensive experience of change programmes, Reward and benefits advisory, technology, digitalisation and stakeholder communications. Matthew had regular interaction with employee representative bodies, Unions, HMRC and BEIS.

Matthew champions diversity, learning and development. He was heavily involved in KPMG’s Black Heritage Reverse Mentoring scheme and mentored a number of University undergraduates partners and company CEOs.

Matthew has been a Trustee of Frantic Assembly since 2019, and a keen supporter since seeing ‘Othello’ at the Lyric Hammersmith in 2008. He is also a Trustee of York Theatre Royal and York St John University Students’ Union.