Summary
Matthew Perkins is a founder and CEO with a decade of experience at the intersection of agriculture and technology, having held strategy and product leadership roles at Syngenta, The Climate Corporation, Inari, and co-founded Yield Pop. Based in San Francisco, he now leads Macro Oceans, a startup focused on seaweed solutions that extend his expertise from crop genetics and digital ag to marine biomass and supply chains. His background combines an MBA from Harvard with hands-on startup building and corporate strategy, enabling him to translate scientific innovation into commercial products. An uncommon thread in his career is moving from terrestrial agri-tech into ocean-based systems, applying lessons from seed-to-scale productization to a nascent blue-economy sector.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Zurich International School
Makers Academy
BA Hons, BA Hons at Durham University
MBA, MBA at Harvard Business School
French, German