About

Matt is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Kiwifruit Breeding Centre (KBC), a joint venture between Zespri and the Crown Research Institute, Plant & Food Research. He also serves as a Director at the consulting firm Idea Partners. Previously, Matt was CEO of Hill Laboratories, New Zealand’s largest private analytical testing laboratory, and CEO of Robotics Plus, an agricultural automation and robotics start-up. An experienced executive in the technology sector, he holds a doctorate in molecular biology from the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Earlier in his career, he was Head of Genomics at Genesis, where he led what was, at the time, the largest DNA sequencing facility in the Southern Hemisphere.