 Matthew started his career in the Internet and data industry whilst still completing sixth form studies in the early ‘90s, by means of a national crime prevention website. In addition to this Matthew also started a small company providing maintenance contracts to local councils, providing good grounding on the fundamentals of business. Within a year the national crime prevention website he started was bought by a Government Agency and Matthew and his team won the contract to maintain the website and call centre. The company continued to grow gaining contracts from a national chain of garages and a national zoo. It was during this time that Matthew formed an Internet Service Provider company, providing web hosting.
With his businesses continuing to run in the background, Matthew started work at Nortel Networks PLC, proving a high level technical consultancy on voice and data applications to the major telecoms PTT’s in the EMEA region, often travelling abroad to work onsite at their data centres. After 6 years Matthew left Nortel to focus all his efforts on the ISP business which grew successfully into PoundHost Internet, which is now a dominant player in the UK. As well as opening an office in Eastern Europe Matthew also started a European network provider, which continues to provide ISP’s with connectivity solutions. The natural progression for Matthew at this time was into his next venture, BlueSquare Data Services Ltd, allowing Matthew to utilise all the experience and knowledge gained over the last 12 years. |
