John Matthews

Current

Founder and Organizer at NY Green Tech meetup http://www.nygreentech.org
Business Development and Associate Consultant at Market Sentinel
President and Founder at Comscient Group

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Past

CRM Specialist/CTO/Co-founder/Owner at Fulcio Inc/FulcioCRM
Co-founder/Owner/Principal at INFACT Research - UK
Senior Consultant at INFACT Ltd - UK

Senior Industry Analyst (AI Systems and Intelligent Document Mgmt) at New Science Associates - UK/US (acquired by Gartner Group)
Senior Consultant (Financial Sector: Intelligent Decision Support Systems) at Inforem Ltd - UK (acquired by CSC)
Senior Consultant (Financial Sector: Artificial Intelligence and Business Rules/Expert Systems) at Data Logic Ltd - UK
Knowledge Engineer/Consultant/Trainer (Artificial Intelligence and Business Rules/Expert Systems) at Artificial Intelligence Ltd - UK (affiliated with Xerox Palo Alto Research Center)
Analyst/Programmer at British Steel (now Corus Group)
Pensions Clerk at Axa Sun Life - UK

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John Matthews’s Summary

I am a Principal at Comscient Group, a think tank, research, analysis, and decision consulting firm that helps clients:

* make informed, insightful, and forward thinking technology, sourcing/buying, ROI, partnering, investment, and CAPEX decisions.

* to stay abreast of, gain insight into, and anticipate the impact of emerging business and green technologies.

* plan and perform technology and market due diligence when investing in a technology based venture or when buying a technology based product or service.

* bring innovation and technology to market guiding them step by step through the process.

* develop and implement systems and best practices for managing knowledge to support innovation, collaboration, and decision making.

* monitor and manage their online presence and reputation.

* obtain customer and competitive insight from online research and monitoring.including using Web 2.0, social media, RSS, and social network analysis.

For 20+ years I have been a technology industry specialist, a technology analyst/researcher and consultant to the consultants (McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, Accenture, EDS,...etc), advised media, marketing, events, and publishing organizations about new and emerging technologies. And been involved in implementing and advising on CRM and Financial Sector business-technology.

For 10 years I provided technology knowledge center and advisory services to a top-tier global management consulting firm. I assisted client engagement teams to gain insight into technologies, technology markets, best practices, and in finding, vetting, and selecting technology solutions.

In the 1980s I was an affiliate of Xerox PARC working on expert systems, knowledge management, and social media and collaboration projects.

I was the software and decision support systems consultant on the team that invented the ground breaking SIV (Structured Investment Vehicle) structured finance product in 1988.

John Matthews’s Specialties:

Marketing and Advertising, Media and Entertainment Sectors, Technology Sector, Mobile, Entrepreneurial Sector, Green/Clean Technology Sector, Strategic Research and Analysis, Business Planning, Software Selection and Acquisition, B2B Market Research, Futures Research, Technology Forecasting, Scenario Planning, Data Driven Decision Making, Technology Due Diligence, Commercial Due Diligence, Business Analysis, Competitive Intelligence, Management Education, and Decision Making Facilitation.

John Matthews’s Experience

Founder and Organizer

NY Green Tech meetup http://www.nygreentech.org

(Environmental Services industry)

October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

A discussion led meetup event that takes place in New York which is a meeting and discussion place for New York based clean technology, alternative energy, renewable energy and other green technology innovators, investors, practitioners, and entrepreneurs. The NY GreenTech Meetup provides a forum for participants to discuss and share experiences, knowledge, and insight to further the development of the GreenTech industry and GreenTech innovation in and around New York.
Business Development and Associate Consultant

Market Sentinel

(Management Consulting industry)

September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

I help Market Sentinel develop and fulfill new and existing business in the US market. Market Sentinel provides technology based services for gathering intelligence and insight from new media and social media sources. Market Sentinel's services enable clients to better manage their online and offline corporate presence and reputation, monitor brand and business sentiment, better execute new product launches, and more immediately and appropriately respond to emerging issues and competitive threats.
President and Founder

Comscient Group

(Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)

2004 — Present (5 years )

I am the Founder and President of Comscient Group, a think tank, research, analysis, and decision consulting firm that helps clients:

* make informed, insightful, and forward looking technology, sourcing/buying, ROI, partnering, investment, and CAPEX decisions.

* obtain technology market intelligence to support making selection and sourcing decisions.

* to stay abreast of, gain insight into, and anticipate the impact of emerging business and green technologies.

* plan and perform technology and market due diligence when investing in a technology based venture or when buying a technology based product or service.

* select and acquire new technology by guiding and supporting them every step of the way through the process of discovery (market research), screening, evaluation, short-listing, RFI/RFP/tendering, negotiating, final selection, contracting/procurement, and on-going vendor management.

* bring innovation and technology to market guiding them step by step through the process.

* develop and implement systems and best practices for managing knowledge to support innovation, collaboration, and decision making.

* monitor and manage their online presence and reputation.

* obtain customer and competitive insight from online research and monitoring.including using Web 2.0, social media, RSS, and social network analysis.

* analyze, understand, and visualize their go-to-market and marketing communications market/industry-social graph (social graph analysis) to better target go-to-market efforts and marketing communications focusing on issues and market key influencers, peer influencers, thought leaders, stakeholders, and key opinion makers.

* analyze, understand, and visualize their internal organization and stakeholder social graph and internal organization intelligence enabling them to achieve better targeted, better pitched, more relevant, and more effective internal corporate and stakeholder communications.
CRM Specialist/CTO/Co-founder/Owner

Fulcio Inc/FulcioCRM

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

December 2006 — March 2007 (4 months)

Co-founder/Co-owner of Fulcio Inc., a startup provider of business-technology advisory, business analysis, and project management services to small and medium size businesses. FulcioCRM, a division of Fulcio Inc., is a customer relationship management (CRM) software consulting services and provider of On-Demand CRM application software as a service.
Co-founder/Owner/Principal

INFACT Research - UK

(Management Consulting industry)

1991 — 2004 (13 years )

I successfully led, managed and promoted INFACT Research to become a recognized European brand name in providing IT focused strategic research and advice to business and technology decision makers to do with CRM and financial services technologies. In addition, as the co-owner (and then latterly sole owner) and principle consultant I provided technology due diligence, strategic research and advised business and technology decision makers assisting them with IT selection and procurement, formulating long range IT plans and spending, IT-based business innovation, and other critical technology related business decisions. My clients included a number of the leading strategy and management consultancy firms, venture capital and private equity firms, and technology vendors and corporate technology users. I was also an editor and contributor to the INFORMA published Customer Relationship Technology in Finance monthly newsletter and a regular speaker on CRM in the Financial sector.
Senior Consultant

INFACT Ltd - UK

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1991 — 1991 (less than a year)
Senior Industry Analyst (AI Systems and Intelligent Document Mgmt)

New Science Associates - UK/US (acquired by Gartner Group)

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1989 — 1991 (2 years )

Software industry analyst/writer I wrote European research for NSA newsletters and reports, and provided research and analysis consulting to NSA's European clients. New Science Associates was a U.S.-based IT analyst group providing subscription market research and consulting services on emerging information technologies. NSA was later acquired by the Gartner Group.
Senior Consultant (Financial Sector: Intelligent Decision Support Systems)

Inforem Ltd - UK (acquired by CSC)

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1987 — 1989 (2 years )

Consultant, interaction designer, data strategist, database designer, database modeler, and business analyst working on client engagements for a number of retail and capital markets financial services clients consulting on the application of artificial intelligence, business rules systems, database strategy and design, and interaction design. Including for trading decision support (Foreign Exchange and Options trading), AI- and rules- based automated electronic trading systems, rules-based personal financial planning systems and CRM/database marketing database development. While at Inforem, I consulted to a top tier global investment bank on developing decision support systems for a new type of fund being created called a Structured Investment Vehicle (SIV) kick starting a new multi billion dollar financial market. I also consulted to a large startup financial services organization on the selection, development and deployment of CRM and business intelligence systems.
Senior Consultant (Financial Sector: Artificial Intelligence and Business Rules/Expert Systems)

Data Logic Ltd - UK

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1986 — 1987 (1 year )

Consultant, interaction designer, and business analyst working on client engagements consulting on applications of artificial intelligence systems, software usability and user interface design, and software primarily for use in the military, and for use in financial services and capital markets (securities trading decision support and decision automation systems).
Knowledge Engineer/Consultant/Trainer (Artificial Intelligence and Business Rules/Expert Systems)

Artificial Intelligence Ltd - UK (affiliated with Xerox Palo Alto Research Center)

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1984 — 1986 (2 years )

I worked on client projects and new product development. I collaborated with teams at at AI Ltd's affiliate partner Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC) on AI-based decision support systems including collaborating on the development of an interaction design software application called Trillium to assist the design and prototyping of user interfaces for industrial products such as photocopiers, VCRs etc. In addition, I worked as a consultant business analyst/knowledge engineer/cognitive task analyst including LISP programming and AI and object oriented programming working with clients in the office products and in the defense sectors. I was also a trainer for courses provided by AI Ltd to its clients and in addition was involved in developing new training courses and the development of new course material.
Analyst/Programmer

British Steel (now Corus Group)

(Mining & Metals industry)

1983 — 1984 (1 year )

Business Systems Analyst and COBOL programmer working on head-office mainframe-based payroll systems.
Pensions Clerk

Axa Sun Life - UK

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AXA; Insurance industry)

1976 — 1979 (3 years )

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John Matthews’s Groups:

NY FinTech Meetup http://newtech.meetup.com/112/
Business Networking 2.0 Meetup http://socialnetwork.meetup.com/1330/
New York Social Computing Meetup http://socialsoftware.meetup.com/35/
Marketing 2.0 New York Meetup http://marketing.meetup.com/310/
Mobile 3.0 Meetup http://wifi.meetup.com/249/
NY Business Rules Technology Meetup http://newtech.meetup.com/98/
NY Technology Sales and Marketing Meetup http://newtech.meetup.com/99/
New York Software Industry Association www.nysia.org,
NY Tech Meetup newtech.meetup.com/1/,
MobileMonday New York www.mobilemonday-ny.com,
New York City Usability Professionals Association www.nycupa.org/,
NYC Association of Business Process Management Professionals www.abpmp.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=56,
NextNY www.nextny.org,
swiftcommunity www.swiftcommunity.net,
BRCommunity www.brcommunity.com,
Finextra Community www.finextra.com/community