Matthew Francis - Chief Strategy and Investment Officer, NowNow

Matthew Francis

Chief Strategy and Investment Officer, NowNow

More about Matthew Francis

A twenty year career spanning investment banking, technology, and startups in San Francisco and Dubai.  Mr. Francis spent the first half of his career on Wall Street working at Morgan Stanley, UBS, and Bank of America Securities.  The latter half was spent working at Oracle in Silicon Valley, Careem in Dubai, and NowNow Digital Systems in Lagos, Nigeria.  He has extensive experience in investments, sales, and executive leadership.  His role at NowNow is to construct a corporate strategy that will help not only the company succeed, but provide the best platform possible for its customers.  He's also leading the fundraising efforts.

Mr. Francis has a BA in economics from Wesleyan University in Connecticut, a MBA from the University of San Diego, and has studied at Cambridge University in the UK and London School of Economics.

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