Matthew Hodgson EN

Matthew Hodgson is CEO and CTO of Element, the company building the eponym open source, secure and interoperable collaboration tool built on Matrix, the open standard for secure and open communications. Element brings sovereign communications to heterogeneous organisations who can’t rely on commercial cloud offerings, let alone non end-to-end encrypted ones.
Matthew juggles Element with the roles of technical co-founder and project lead of Matrix.org: the not-for-profit open source project focused on solving the problem of fragmentation in current Chat, VoIP and IoT technologies. By defining a new lightweight pragmatic open standard for federation/interoperability, Matrix hopes to create a new ecosystem that makes open real-time-communication as universal and interoperable as email.
Previously, as a technical lead at MX Telecom (acquired by Amdocs in 2010), Matthew designed & architecte