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About Matthew

Matthew is at the helm of Johnsons Holdings Group (JHG) and managing partner in MakeSafe AI. He provides steadfast leadership defining our strategic approach to adding customer and partner value across the JHG portfolio.

During Matthew’s tenure as Vice President of Product, IoT at HID Global, he spearheaded the creation of cutting-edge SaaS-based IoT platforms, leveraging secure location tracking and AI-driven analytics to provide superior solutions to customers.

With the successful launch of products like HID Bluzone Cloud and HID Location Services, Matthew’s focus on customer relationship management and mobile application innovation significantly enhanced HID’s IoT offerings. As a team, they consistently delivered value-add solutions, cementing their status as leaders in IoT innovation and product strategy.

Matthew has led a cross-functional team of strategists, designers, technologists, and analytics who are considered leaders in business and strategic product development. As a proven leader, he has provided strategic direction by identifying business opportunities, acquisitions, go-to-market strategies, and assessing emerging trends for clients such as HID Global, Coca-Cola, PNC Bank, Verizon, NFL, Sears, AT&T, T-Mobile, Guess, Gap, Motorola Solutions, State Farm, and more.

He founded the Vibes Media professional services and internal agency named “MSG” or Mobile Solutions Group. At Vibes, he grew the practice from an idea with a few people into a full-service mobile agency serving clients such as Verizon, NFL, PGA, Home Depot, Sears, Beam, and Guess. He managed large-scale P&L and led large, award-winning cross-discipline teams (technology, creative, user experience, and project management).

Major accomplishments include:

• January 2024, HID Recognized as a Leader in 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Indoor Location Services
• Developing patented & patent-pending security technologies for HID Global
• Founding Bluvision (sold to HID Global in 2016)
• Founding the Mobile Solutions Group at Vibes Media, Chicago IL
• Leading technology on the largest global account at Razorfish, with a retainer in excess of $40M
• Serving as Head of Content Management Center of Excellence at Razorfish from 2009-2011

Matthew has over 25 years of business, consulting, and technology experience. He specializes in C-Suite consulting, omni-channel marketing strategy, mobile technologies, hardware/electronics design, emerging technology, content management, and digital strategy.

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Patents

Thermal imaging for room-level real-time location services

WO2023249658A1    Issued Dec 28, 2023

Using AI, a method of operating a real-time location services (RTLS) system includes obtaining, by a processing device of the RTLS system, location information identifying an object or person and a building-area location of the object or person; obtaining, by the processing device, access-event information of a access of a physical access portal associated with the building-area location; and matching the location information of the identified object or person and the access-event information and generating an indication of the building-area location of the object or person using the processing device in response to the matching.

DETERMINING LOCATION USING BLE SIGNALS

18/392,289,   Filed Dec 21, 2023

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Education

DePaul Driehaus College of Business

MBA, Entrepreneurship & Finance

Miami University

BS, Double Majors in Finance & Managment Information Systems