Matthew is an external affairs and regulatory professional with 25 years’ experience in the telecommunications, digital, and technology sectors, working in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, India, and Asia Pacific. This includes leadership roles at Vodafone Group and Vodacom Group, including responsibilities for Africa, the Middle East and, the Asia Pacific region, as well as in-country operation roles as a founding executive committee member for the commercial launches in Qatar and Ethiopia.

Matthew has a significant track record of delivering companywide programmes and campaigns, securing outcomes, managing risks, developing teams and talent, and building partnerships with governments and stakeholders, enabling companies to achieve commercial and reputational objectives in complex and high-risk geopolitical environments and contributing to countries’ digital socio-economic transformation and inclusion objectives. His areas of expertise include government and stakeholder affairs, regulatory and policy, public affairs and media, sustainability and foundation, wholesale, crisis management, legal, governance, and company secretarial.