Matthew Brown heads Echochamber, a London-based retail intelligence consultancy, which travels the world tracking retail innovation in order to inform and inspire.

Echochamber provides competitor intelligence, global best practice analysis and creative insight services to clients across all retail categories. The company has worked closely with Marks & Spencer, Tesco and Waitrose for over a decade helping develop new store designs and keeping them informed of the latest retail innovations. The agency helped develop new fast food brands for Compass Group and were instrumental in creating the Great Eastern Market, a revolutionary fresh food market concept in Europe’s largest shopping centre, Westfield Stratford in London.

Other clients include big global retailers, such as Wal Mart, Nike and IKEA, as well as major FMCG Brands such as Unilever and Johnson & Johnson. Echochamber also works with leading global shopping centre developers, such as Westfield, Unibail Rodamco, Lend Lease and the Majid AlFuttaim Group. Matthew is currently consulting on the retail strategy for the new terminal at Abu Dhabi International Airport, due to open in 2017.

Matthew is married with two young daughters.