About Matthew Spoke

Matthew Spoke is the CEO of Moves, the Digital Credit Union of the gig economy. Matt is considered a leader on the cutting edge of future-defining technologies and has spoken at dozens of tech conferences and written for: • Forbes.com • Coindesk.com • Financial Post.com • TechCrunch Matt is a strong advocate for the social benefits of decentralized technologies and created the Open Foundation, a not-for-profit focused on advancing blockchain technologies. In addition, he’s served as an advisor to governments on the regulatory implications of new technologies like blockchain on the future world of finance. Matt participates in a wide variety of industry groups including: • Board of Directors of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance • Faculty member with Singularity University • Investment Committee of Portal Asset Management • Founding Director, the Blockchain Technology Coalition of Canada In his former life Matt was working as CPA with Deloitte, when he discovered Bitcoin and became fascinated with the technology. He was considering a move and applied to both Oxford and a joint MBA between the London Business School and Hong Kong University. Ultimately, he rejected offers from both schools, since Deloitte extended an opportunity to Matthew to build an entrepreneurial venture within a traditional corporate environment. As a result, Spoke built the world’s first blockchain focused business for a Global consulting firm. A few years later he left to start his own technology company. Several of his former bosses at Deloitte were among his first investors. Over the course of 5 years, Matthew raised over $50m and built a well-known and reputable software company in the blockchain industry. Along the way, he opened offices in Shanghai, Barbados, and Toronto. In late 2019, Spoke took inventory of what the company had accomplished, and the lessons learnt. Inspired by a conversation he had with an Uber driver; Spoke realized there was a need for a new kind of product focused on empowering gig workers. The next morning, he began pivoting the business towards addressing the systemic problems facing the growing demographic of workers in the gig economy – and Moves was born.