Matthew Le Merle’s board experience includes a broad range of industries including digital content and videogames, e-commerce, financial technology and blockchain, business services, consumer, and retail.

He spent 21 years as a strategy, operations, and corporate finance advisor to Fortune 500 CEOs, boards, and executive teams with McKinsey & Co. and as a practice leader with A. T. Kearney and Monitor Group, where he led both firms’ West Coast practices and at Booz & Co. He was also a corporate executive at Gap Inc. where he was senior vice president of strategy and corporate development and of global marketing.

Le Merle is a bestselling coauthor, with Alison Davis, of The Intelligent Investor—Silicon Valley, Blockchain Competitive Advantage, Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era, and Build your Fortune in the Fifth Era; a bestselling novelist of The Ministry of Bitcoin and Second Chance; and a keynote speaker. He received a bachelor of arts and master’s degree from Christ Church, Oxford University, and a master of business administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.