About Matt Wood

Matt Wood the Asia Pacific Head of Strategic Partnerships at Visa, he leads a team of professionals across the region, driving the growth and expansion of Visa's fintech ecosystem channel partnerships. With over 18 years of experience in financial services and SaaS, he has a proven track record of delivering innovative solutions and strategic partnerships that create value for customers, partners, and stakeholders. His core competencies include product development and management, business relationship management, strategy formulation and execution, and talent identification and promotion. Matt Wood is passionate about leveraging technology and partnerships to solve complex business challenges. CEO and Founder Matt Wood has been a pioneer in developing probiotic technologies for more than 20 years. His work with probiotics has resulted in global engagements in microbiology, agriculture, water treatment and human health. He led the launch and funding of Probiotic Holdings/SCD Probiotics in 2004 to develop and commercialize consortia fermentation technologies for multiple industries and has been the lead executive in building out SCD’s global network of manufacturers and distributors In 2012, he led the launch and funding of Proviera Biotech to develop and commercialize sustainable products for the leather tannery industry. Matt earned a bachelor’s degree in soil and atmospheric sciences from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a master’s degree in bioproduction from the University of Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan.