Matt is a distinguished partner in McKinsey’s Boston office and the global leader of McKinsey’s blockchain and digital assets work. He advises banks, market infrastructure providers, fintechs, and asset managers on tokenization strategy, stablecoins and tokenized cash, digital-asset exchange and custody models, and the operating and regulatory implications of on-chain financial infrastructure.
He is part of McKinsey’s leadership team for the Financial Services and Risk & Resilience Practices and leads customer assistance and collections work in North America.
Matt’s experience spans financial-services clients across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America. Examples of his recent work include:
- advising global banks and payment providers on stablecoin and tokenized-deposit strategy as on-chain money moves from pilot to production
- supporting market infrastructure players on tokenization of securities and collateral, including production-grade settlement models
- partnering with a European client to design one of the world’s first fully regulated digital-asset exchanges
- transforming end-to-end collections for a large multinational bank, delivering annualized loss reduction in excess of $100 million
Matt is a frequent speaker and commentator on digital assets, including appearances at Sibos, Bloomberg Television, and McKinsey’s Global Banking Business & Technology Conference. He co-authors the firm’s flagship research on tokenization and tokenized cash, including “From ripples to waves” and “The stable door opens.”
Before McKinsey, Matt led operations for forensic science laboratories in the United Kingdom, following a postdoctoral career in geochemistry and oceanography. He holds a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Bristol and an MBA from the University of Oxford.
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