Matthew is a co-founder of Didobi and is a practical expert in the capture, collation, visualisation and interpretation of data within the property and retail markets. He is a nationally recognised expert on ‘High Streets’ where his views are regularly sought by national media outlets. He was co-author of The Grimsey Reviews in 2013 and 2018, and wrote the #CreatingBetterTowns and #CreatingBetterLeadership aide-memoires.
Matthew has been a director of three marketing leading data and insight businesses where he held roles within research, technology and sales & marketing. He is a Visiting Professor at UCL, member of the Nottingham Business School research advisory board, an adviser to a number of data and technology SMEs, a Volunteer Business Mentor for The Prince’s Trust and regular keynote speaker at industry events.

Jo is a creative retail expert and digital marketing specialist with an extensive background in retail, communications, town centre regeneration and place making.
She has held several senior positions with prominent high street retailers and successfully ran her own independent shop in London.
Jo devised and delivered a nationally recognised project transforming space into a vibrant mix of exciting independent retailers and community-based schemes including Pop up Ashford, Made in Ashford and One You Kent.

Stephen has worked in the real estate and wider financial services industry since 1988. He has detailed expertise in research, corporate governance and liquidity. For ten years, Stephen was an investment consultant to Mercer where he advised institutional investors on real estate and defined contribution investments.

Stephen previously worked on product development in two of Ireland’s largest fund managers, where he designed the first US real estate fund of funds in Europe.

Stephen has been a member of the defined contribution committee of the Irish Association of Pension Funds.

Sally has extensive experience in creating identities and a ‘town brand’ through identifying what is unique and appealing to people. Sally has worked with a number of communities in support of her projects in towns. Example projects include Love Bridgnorth, winner of the Great British High Street in 2016 and Love Wellington.
Sally was a Young High Street Challenge judge in 2018 and is a Great British High Street judge for 2019. She is based in Shropshire where she was the former Editor of the What’s What! Magazine.

Matt is a co-founder of Didobi and was previously Director of Research, European Real Estate at Fidelity International in London. He has 30 years experience of working in real estate investment markets in the UK, Europe, US and China.
He has also successfully developed and sold two Proptech businesses during his career including PMI, one of the first DotCom businesses in Asia. It was acquired by PRC investors in December 1999.
Matt is a visiting lecturer at Oxford Brookes University in the UK and has also lectured at the London Business School, London School of Economics, UCL, Maastricht University and Cambridge University in recent years. He is a regular speaker and panellist at industry events.

Chris was previously employed as Head of Quants, Data Analytics and Systems, European Real Estate with Fidelity International in London.
He has more than 15 years’ experience of working in CRE investment markets and is widely recognised as a pioneer in CRE quants and financial modelling.
Chris has a degree Mathematics & Economics from the London School of Economics & Political Science.

Simon is a Data & Systems Engineer who has a long and successful track record in database design, systems development and content architecture with Fidelity International in London. He joined the company in 2008 and has spent much of the past decade overseeing development of FIL’s award winning CRE investment management and analytics platforms.

Chris has over 25 years providing data-driven analytical and consulting services to organisations across a range of retail sectors and international markets. He specialises in retail location strategy and planning, harnessing the power of data analytics and utilising proven data-driven predictive modelling techniques. His retail sector experience is broad, including retailers and brands, grocery and convenience, F&B, forecourt retailing, automotive distribution, financial services and property.
He is a former Director of GMAP Ltd (later GMAP Consulting) and GMAP’s Japanese and Chinese businesses. Chris has a PhD in quantitative methods in geospatial analysis and is a Visiting Fellow at the Leeds Institute of Data Analytics (LIDA) at University of Leeds.