Martin J. Matthews, Chairman and CEO

Originally from Toronto, Marty Matthews has had a remarkable and entrepreneurial business career. After graduating college, Marty co-founded and was the managing partner of a very successful integrated marketing and communications company for 18 years. Their clients included Fortune 500 companies in consumer food and beverage, consumer electronics, marine products, financial services, hospitality, business equipment, pharmaceutical and health care industries.

His marketing company expanded to Phoenix to service clients throughout the USA. During this period, Marty developed and managed a staff that grew to over 100 creative individuals in two offices. His expertise included product development, packaging, sales promotion, public relations, video production, print and broadcast media campaigns for multiple cultures and languages.

Marty then co-founded and led a consumer electronics and health science product development and marketing company which went on to set records for revenue growth in North America and Europe, opening in 14 countries in just five years.

During this period,　Marty has also lived in London, England for one year, while leading the European expansion as International President. Overall he developed and managed a worldwide staff of over 800 in twelve offices. Due to the tremendous growth and business innovation of the company under his leadership, it led to the company to being awarded “Entrepreneur of the Year Award” for the state by Ernst & Young and recognition by Fortune magazine.

This marketing company drove the value and shares of its Hong Kong parent, a publicly-traded manufacturing company, to be one of the world's fastest growing in terms of revenues and share appreciation. Marty successfully worked with Hong Kong and European investment communities to raise significant expansion capital and promote the company in public markets. He left this business to spend more time with family and to focus on new opportunities in the emerging Internet market.

Marty joined Interush, Inc. in 2006 as CEO, and then became Chairman in 2009. In July 2011, Mr. Matthews also resumed his role as CEO and now leads and is responsible for Interush business strategy, marketing and communications, international and collaborative alliances, plus all operations and administrative functions in all global markets.

Marty is married with four children, one of whom is launching her own career post-college; and the other three attend high school in California. His family is very focused on achieving academically and they are highly active in sports and recreation.