Matthew is a successful, highly-regarded investor focusing on commercializing new technologies and building new business models for both consumer and commercial marketplaces. He has particular interest in ideas that improve the user experience in both old and new media, or exploit unique and novel combinations of bits and atoms. Before founding Rudyard Partners, Matthew was a Founder & Managing Director of Motorola Ventures (MV), the corporate venture capital arm of Motorola, Inc., where he created the investment program and established it as one of the premier corporate venture practices in the world. During his nine year tenure in that role, Matthew co-managed a $350M portfolio of 70+ companies and was directly responsible for building investment offices in Boston, Silicon Valley, Tel Aviv, and Beijing. He developed MV’s investment thesis around monetizing both strategic and financial returns. He focused on emerging networks (3G, 4G, Wireline, Cable), new media, mobile devices, Web 2.0, enterprise software, and materials science. Among his investments were innovative companies such as E Ink, A123, Xanboo, Airclic, Cedarpoint Communications, Snaptrack, Camero, Ocean Broadband, and Netomat. He has also served on both the Investment Committee and the Board of Directors for Shanghai NewMargin Ventures, one of the leading domestic venture capital firms in China. Matthew serves on the Advisory Board for the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship in New England (http://www.nfte.com/), a non-for-profit focused on developing entrepreneurship criteria for low-income high school students. He is also involved with the Ad Hoc Technology Committee for the Boston Children’s Museum. In November 2005, Matthew was named one of Boston’s 40 under 40? by the Boston Business Journal for his professional achievement and community contributions in New England. He has been a featured speaker around the world and contributed to several books both on innovation and venture capital. He is a Visiting Lecturer at Michigan State University’s Eli Broad School of Business and Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business. Matthew graduated from Michigan State University (BA) and the New England School of Law (JD). He has also studied Software at Harvard University and Civil Law with Loyola University- New Orleans in Costa Rica. Matthew is fluent in French, speaks Japanese, and is studying Mandarin.