Matt Abrams, Angel Investor

Matt Abrams is an Advisor, Angel Investor, Co-Founder, Board Member, and Outdoor Adventurer who inspires startup founders and C-level executives to think bigger and bolder. Prior to joining SPV in 2014, Matt spent over 20 years in the Enterprise software industry as an operator leading product management, engineering, customer success, and industry standards teams from companies ranging in size from 200 to over 100,000 employees. At Oracle, Matt held similar roles at Hyperion (acquired by Oracle) and Arbor Software. He is on the Board of Northwestern’s Master in Science in Analytics (MSiA) Engineering program and serves as a guest lecturer at Northwestern’s McCormick Engineering school and Northwestern’s Kellogg Business school. Matt's time is focused in and around the following core areas: -Information Quality & Ethics (Mis/Disinformation) -Democracy Strengthening & Upgrades -Citizens' Assemblies, societal decency and discourse building efforts -Cybersecurity -Healthcare -Deep Tech -Hybrid Private / Public Service Innovations -Problem solving -Ice cream (because it makes people happy)