Serial entrepreneur Matt consistently breaks norms and generates exceptional results.
He has achieved industry recognition and won prestigious awards for the successful, mould-breaking advertising agency he founded, S3. During his time there, Matt was named Creative Industry Entrepreneur of the Year, and S3 won the Fastest Growing Company in Wales within the Creative Industry Awards.
His achievements have also been recognised by the CIM | The Chartered Institute of Marketing and the Royal Society Of Arts, both of whom awarded him Fellowships, and he recently became a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute.
For his previous business, MESOA Skincare, Matt successfully pitched on BBC TV’s Dragons’ Den and received an offer from Touker Suleyman.
After that episode aired, Matt’s confident, thorough and compelling pitch on the programme triggered additional orders for MESOA Skincare products to flood in, the company acquired over 1800 new customers, was inundated with stockist requests and the MESOA Skincare brand grew in authority.
More recently, Matt founded and continues to run successful advertising agency, Rebel Lion Advertising, who recently won ‘Marketing and PR Start up of the Year’ category in the 2023 StartUp Awards.
Beyond his professional endeavours, Matt advocates for men’s mental health, actively breaking barriers and destigmatising the issue.
Acknowledged as an expert in a number of fields, Matt regularly delivers talks about entrepreneurship, scale-ups, advertising, brand-building and challenger brands.