Matt is head of the firm’s Enterprise Risk Management service group for RSM UK. He has over 25 years of risk advisory and consulting experience, having worked with Grant Thornton, the Audit Commission, as well as being a Head of Internal Audit within the public sector before joining RSM in 2004. Matt is an ICAEW associate and works across all sectors with all types of business.

In 2002 Matt architected and mobilised what was the largest local government Internal Audit Consortium. This was held up by the then ODPM strategic partnering taskforce as a prime example of good practice in alternative service delivery. Matt was instrumental in the development of 4Risk a key module within the RSM Insight4GRC software suite. Insight4GRC has in excess of 250 clients, 95,000 end users and is now in its 12th anniversary.

Matt has over 25 years of risk consulting experience. He is experienced in the review, design, development and establishment of strategic risk management, including risk appetite, opportunity risk, board assurance / board effectiveness and emerging risk as part of strategy setting, across all sectors. He wrote the Polish Government Risk Management Guide as part of a European Union capacity building initiative. He has had numerous articles published that challenge thinking on risk management, controls and assurance, including boredom in the boardroom which has been published many times, the RSM Board Assurance Toolkit series and Emerging Risk Radar publication.

Matt led and participated in the delivery of the risk management module of the Ambition Academy Leadership programme working with Sir David Carter and then more recently with CST. Matt was an advisory member of a Trust Governance Committee, helping them re-think & re-build their academy governance. Prior to this Matt was a school Chair of Governors, contributing to the School achieving an OFSTED Outstanding judgement, as well as guiding the School through a “black swan” event and the transition to Academy.