Mat is Chief Development Officer (CDO) at Catch22, a national charity and social business that designs and delivers services which build resilience and aspiration in people and communities. Catch22 works across the social welfare cycle, from cradle to career, delivering services including alternative education schools, family interventions, vocational training and employability programmes, and prisoner rehabilitation. Mat’s primary responsibilities as CDO are business strategy, growth and development. He leads the communications, partnerships and business development teams, focussing Catch22’s strategic direction and development activities to raise revenue and maximise social impact.
Before rejoining Catch22 in August 2019, Mat spent two years at No. 10 Downing Street as a Special Adviser to Prime Minister Theresa May, covering Home Affairs and Justice Policy. Mat was appointed to No. 10 from Catch22 in 2017, an organisation he joined after Catch22 acquired criminal justice charity Only Connect in 2015, where Mat had been Executive Director. Prior to this, Mat held numerous policy roles at London’s City Hall, including delivering on the Mayor’s serious violence and youth programmes and contributing to the London 2012 operations.
Mat started his career in the private sector, in PWC’s public sector audit business. He is a Churchill Fellow, a Fellow of the RSA, and holds a degree in Modern History from the University of Oxford and a Master’s in International Relations from the London School of Economics.