Most recently he launched a “product management” function in Energy Retail to improve customer and product value. Matthew’s business career began as an engineer with Shell Exploration and Production where he subsequently became a business development manager. Matthew then moved to management consultancy with strategy firm Booz & Co where he advised a variety clients across the energy sector.

Matthew is now working with the Executive and is responsible for developing a unified growth and development strategy for ScottishPower within its key markets. He also has executive responsibility for both research and development and risk across ScottishPower.

Of this appointment Matthew said: “this is a unique opportunity to craft our ScottishPower strategy and unifying vision within the newly shaped Iberdrola group and to look for the new value creating development opportunities which will make ScottishPower greater than the sum of its parts.”

Matthew lives in Glasgow and is engaged to be married in 2009. He holds a first class Honours degree in Chemistry from the University of Oxford, a PhD from the University of Cambridge and completed a Post Doctoral Research fellowship at the University of Colorado. He is also a certified engineer. 

He is a keen outdoorsman, Matthew is passionate about exploring the Scottish highlands and islands and speaks Spanish (rapidly improving) and reasonable Dutch.