President & Co-Founder, Indigenous Designs

Matt has 19 years of operations and business development management experience in the retail/wholesale industry. He is primarily responsible for overseeing Indigenous' sales strategy, as well as maintaining industry leader margins. Matt has also been responsible for spearheading and actualizing the company’s revolutionary new production financing model for fair trade knitting cooperatives through Ecologic Finance of Cambridge, MA.

Prior to co-founding Indigenous, Matt helped pioneer a retail chain in the Pacific Northwest and planned and organized an individual research project analyzing the socio-economic impact of changing environmental policies on lumber communities. Matt has a BS in Economics from the University of Oregon.