Matt Brittin CBE

Matt is on the Board of the Guardian, having spent 18 years leading at Google, the last ten running Europe, Middle East and Africa - making products work for over a billion people, running a huge and varied business and working with policy makers, companies and communities to make technology work for good. His career involved working in property, news publishing, consulting and for non-profits. He’s also into sitting down sports, a rower, sailor and cyclist who competed in the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, was a member of the GB rowing team in the Seoul Olympics and won medals at world championships. He's been a TV commentator on rowing for over ten years and all of this rests on his an amazing wife, two grown up sons, very small dog and tens of thousands of bees.