Primary Job Title Founder and CEO Primary Organization ckbk
Location London, England, United Kingdom Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
Website www.vimeo.com/ckbk/matt Facebook View on Facebook LinkedIn View on LinkedIn X (Twitter) View on X
Matt is the Founder and CEO of ckbk, a digital subscription service offering access to the full content of hundreds of the world's best cookbooks. ckbk is often described as "Spotify for Recipes".
He studied Natural Sciences at Clare College, Cambridge, followed by PhD research on the cell cycle in the lab of Nobel prize-winning
biochemist Tim Hunt.
His began his digital publishing career with BioMedNet, an early community website for scientific researchers which was sold in 1997 to Elsevier. In 1999 together with entrepreneur Vitek Tracz, he co-founded BioMed Central, a new publisher which pioneered the then revolutionary Open Access publishing model.
BioMed Central was acquired by Springer Science+Business Media in 2008, and Matt ran BioMed Central as an independent unit within Springer from 2008-2013 and served on Springer's management board.
Matt's spare time activities include cooking and endurance sport. He qualified for and competed in the 2016 Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii, but is now more focused on improving his 2:53 marathon PB.
