Our MD Matt started his first business at the tender age of 18, installing luxury marine and tropical fish tanks in large houses and hotels across the UK – he even had a couple of celebrity clients on his books!

In 1997, Matt decided to leave his ‘fishy business’ behind to see what the IT recruitment industry was all about… back then recruiters relied on pagers and fax machines, today they couldn’t do without emails, Microsoft Teams and job boards, but the core of the industry is exactly the same. Matt’s just as passionate as he was at the beginning of his recruitment career!

After 17 years working his way up the corporate recruitment ladder, earning many acknowledgments along the way, including being named Computer People’s first £1m biller, Matt started VIQU in 2014. Since then he’s volunteered as the Midlands Chair for APSCo and acted as a non-executive for a number of local recruitment companies to support them with super growth. Matt sits on the board for BID Services, a charity which supports people who are deaf, hard of hearing, visually impaired or have dual sensory loss.

In 2018, Matt co-founded the Recruitment Canaries – a network that encourages West Midlands recruitment agencies to collaborate and network together, upholding the standards and ethics of the recruitment industry.

Matt is an extreme traveller – his idea of a holiday involves hiking up Machu Picchu in torrential rain and fog so bad that he couldn’t see further than a metre in front of him, or ascending Mount Everest (granted, he did take the easy way out, and got a helicopter halfway up).

If you’d like to find out more about Matt’s background and his passion to make VIQU one of the best IT recruitment agencies in Birmingham and Southampton, why not listen to the episode of ‘The Recruitment Rollercoaster’ that Matt took part in!