Mat is an internationally respected adviser in emerging technology, strategy and governance, and one of the youngest people to be appointed a non-executive director (NED) of a government department – the Department for Culture, Media, and Sport – and went on to chair the review of UK Anti-Doping during the international doping in sport crisis. He holds multiple non-executive and senior adviser roles in high profile organisations and works actively to champion the increase in diversity in senior roles, providing coaching for women and other underrepresented groups.

Following a spinal injury in 2009, Mat competed for TeamGB, captaining the men’s Wheelchair Fencing Team to multiple world cup medals.

Mat is Honorary Secretary for the Council of Anaesthesia at the Royal Society of Medicine, and Senior Fellow in Novel Medical Technologies at Birmingham Medical School. He continues to work as the Director of Design at AerosolShield – acclaimed as a top 10 medical innovation worldwide by multiple publications, including the Times, and was awarded the 2021 That’ll Do Star award.

Mat works with many medical technology manufacturers, including as board member of MICA Biosystems – a revolutionary nano technology – and he is a national mentor for the NHS Clinical Entrepreneurs Program. 

Mat works across the transport sector and is a NED at the Driver and Vehicles Standard Agency, and the Board Champion for Diversity, and he is an expert adviser to the UK government on autonomous vehicles (CAVPASS).

Mat continues to Chair Ted’s Light CIC, which he launched in 2020, supporting hundreds of young children entering emergency foster care across the UK.