Matt Boynton

Matt is the Director of Control Risks Response, the department responsible for advice and assistance to companies, organizations and families facing kidnap, extortion, product contamination, illegal detention, maritime piracy and other acute coercive bargaining crises. He is responsible for the strategic growth and direction of this global business unit, and for directing all Response related incidents on which Control Risks is advising. He has lectured extensively on kidnap, illegal detention, maritime piracy, extortion and non-traditional negotiation techniques, as well as creating contingency plans and education/briefing sessions for board level and senior executive management teams likely to be involved in such incidents.Prior to his appointment to Response, Matt undertook the following executive assignments:• Control Risks’ Representative Director and President for the company’s Tokyo based global Japanese business• Member of Control Risks’ Asia-Pacific Regional Executive Committee with oversight of business integration and coordination throughout the region• Senior Vice President and National Director for Crisis and Security Consulting in North AmericaDuring his career, Matt has advised executive teams for multi-national corporations in a broad range of market sectors including pharmaceutical and biotechnology, financial and insurance services, food and beverage, consumer electronics, manufacturing, and entertainment on a diverse range of complex risk issues including Business Resilience, Transactional Support (M&A, JV, pre-investment due diligence, post-investment asset divestiture), Regulatory Compliance (anti-fraud and corruption), and strategic and organizational development programs. He has actively worked with non-profit and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and high net-worth private families.Before joining Control Risks, Matt worked for the United States Government. His government service in East Asia, Central Eurasia, and Latin America included human intelligence collection, terrorist interrogation, counter-narcotics, and counter-terrorism paramilitary operations. He has covered a broad spectrum of transnational issues including international economic movements, foreign political parties, weapons proliferation, narco-trafficing, organized crime, and Al-Qa’ida and other international terrorist activity. He worked on several national-level inter-agency programs with various federal agencies including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).Matt served for six years in the United States Air Force as a Cryptologic Linguist, operating in German, French, Haitian-Creole, Vietnamese, and Japanese, and seven years in the Air National Guard and USAF Reserve as a Linguist/Debriefer. He has been operationally employed in Europe, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Central Eurasia and Asia.Matt earned a B.A. in Political Science with International Relations Emphasis from Arizona State University (ASU), and holds Associates of Arts in Foreign Language degrees in Vietnamese, French, and German from Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, California. He has provided expert commentary in both print and broadcast media, having been featured on CNBC, NHK television, and Japan’s Nikkei Shinbun among other outlets.