Built To Figure Things Out
Born and raised in Harnett County, North Carolina, near Fort Bragg, Matt grew up in a military family and around entrepreneurs. His grandparents built businesses of their own, and his grandfather was the kind of person who could seemingly fix anything or figure out a solution when one wasn’t obvious.
Matt brought that mindset to technology: understand how something works, learn what you don’t know, and never assume a problem is impossible just because nobody has solved it yet. He started Freedom Tech around a simple belief: technology should just work.
Bring Us The Hard Problems
Matt is most energized by problems that don’t fit neatly into a product catalog: the complicated projects where technology, people, security requirements, vendors, infrastructure, and real-world operations all have to come together.
His approach starts with the mission. What are you trying to accomplish? What’s standing in the way? And what can we build, integrate, change, or rethink to make it possible? Sometimes the answer is an existing technology. Sometimes it’s combining technologies in ways they weren’t originally designed to work. And sometimes the answer hasn’t been built yet. Those are the problems we want.
His experience in public safety and law enforcement also gives him a firsthand perspective on mission-critical government operations, where technology has to work in the real world, under pressure, for the people depending on it.
Never Stop Learning
Matt studies technology, business, leadership, negotiation, and people, and he seeks out those who know things he doesn’t. He has learned from thinkers including Chris Voss and Mike Michalowicz, and has interviewed more than two dozen leaders, from Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph to the investors of Shark Tank.
Building Something That Matters
Today, Matt is helping lead Freedom Technology Partners into its next chapter, expanding the company’s capabilities to serve businesses, government agencies, public-sector organizations, and prime contractors.
Community matters to Matt. He wants to build an organization that creates careers, develops people, strengthens the community, encourages entrepreneurship, and helps solve meaningful problems.
Matt and his wife, Kristen, are raising their three children in North Carolina. Outside of work, he enjoys traveling, cooking and good food, music, the outdoors, and almost anything that offers a chance to learn something new.
Stay curious. Build things that matter. Solve the problems others can’t.
