Prior to the establishment of MW&L Capital Partners, Matthew was a banker throughout his career, most recently at HSBC where he was co-head of Global Banking, and at Goldman Sachs where he led its investment-banking business in Australasia excluding Japan and in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Matthew was appointed by the Prime Minister as a Board member of the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation and is a Foundation Fellow of Balliol College, University of Oxford. He is also a Non‑Executive Director and a member of the Audit & Risk Committee of Schroders PLC, and serves on the Global Advisory Board of Kekst CNC, the strategic consultancy business of Publicis Group. He was previously a Trustee and Chair of the Imperial War Museum.