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Professional experience
2004 - present
President + Founder (Emerging Media and Marketing Technology Consultancy)
(The company name is only visible to registered members)
Industry: Consulting, Web Content, Information Technology, Media, Advertising, Entertainment, Broadcasting, Marketing and CRM services, Outsourcing Services, Professional Services.
Oct 2008 - present
(1 year, 5 months)Independent Professional (Social Media Services/Social Media Monitoring)
Market Sentinel, http://www.marketsentinel.com
Industry: Marketing & Advertising
Aug 2008 - present
(1 year, 7 months)Independent Professional and Strategic Adviser (Mobile and Location Based Market
Industry: Marketing & Advertising, Media, Entertainment, Pharmaceutical, FMCG, Retail, and Technology
1991 - 2003
1991 - 1991
1989 - 1991
Senior Industry Analyst (AI Systems and Intelligent Document Mgmt)
New Science Associates (acquired by Gartner Group)
Industry: Information Services
1987 - 1989
1986 - 1987
Senior Consultant (Financial Sector: Artificial Intelligence and Business Rules)
Industry: Information Technology & Services
1984 - 1986
Knowledge Engineer and Programmer/Trainer
Artificial Intelligence Ltd - (affiliated with Xerox Palo Alto Research Center)
Industry: Information Technology & Services
Educational background
Hallam University (BSc. Computer Studies) - aka Sheffield Polytechnic, 1979 - 1983
Computer Studies
About me
johnmatthews[at]comscient[dot]com
John Matthews is the Managing Director/Owner of Comscient Group. John collaborates with his clients enabling them with fact-based insight and foresight to make better high stakes decisions, to make more forward thinking decisions, to implement cultures and systems to become better decision makers and more effective innovators, to evaluate and select business critical software systems, to research and develop content, and to enable clients to connect with and supply their markets and customers in new and innovative and more effective ways.
John has worked with clients in: Information Technology | Broadcasting and Media | Financial Markets | Banking and Insurance | Marketing and CRM Services | Outsourcing Services | Professional and Project Services.
In 1991 while working for financial markets trading room consultants INFACT Ltd John founded the European software market intelligence and software management consultancy INFACT Research. In 1992 John co-led the management buyout of INFACT Research from INFACT Ltd to create INFACT Research Ltd. He led INFACT Research until 2003 building it into an established brand in the European CRM and Financial Services software market research and software consultancy marketplace and as a provider of knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) to major consulting firms, marketing firms, venture capital and private equity firms, and corporations. While leading INFACT Research, John personally consulted to some of the largest and best known brand names in strategy consulting, systems integration, and in software venture capital and private equity.
From 1984 to 1986, while with Artificial Intelligence Ltd, John collaborated with teams at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC) on artificial intelligence-based decision support systems and hypertext systems. In 1988 while with management consultants Inforem, John consulted to Citicorp Investment Bank Ltd (now Citigroup) to develop rules-based decision support systems for a new type of fund being created which became known as a Structured Investment Vehicle (SIV) kick starting a multi billion dollar financial market.
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