Matthew Slyman, a self-employed consultant software engineer, earned a degree in computer science at Cambridge University. His interests include:
- Business and economics: Disruptive technology, communication and coordination, incentivisation and optimisation
- Philosophy and religion: Christianity, politics, professional ethics
- Science, technology, engineering and mathematics: Electronics and semiconductors, manufacturing, pure mathematics and algorithms, software and security engineering, user interface ergonomics and computer graphics
Matthew is a married father of two children and a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.