Summary
Matthew Black is a founder and CEO with over a decade of hands-on product and engineering leadership, currently scaling Mav, a text-based automation platform that streamlines scheduling, lead qualification, and follow-ups. He previously co-founded Kontextual, which was acquired in 2014, and has early engineering experience at DoubleClick and boutique startups, giving him deep chops in ad tech and SaaS productization. Based in Las Vegas, he blends founder-level strategy with day-to-day technical execution, shipping customer-facing automation that reduces sales friction. A pragmatic builder who’s navigated acquisitions and bootstrapped growth, he pairs a product-first mindset with an engineer’s attention to reliability and iteration.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer