Matt Higham

Chief Digital Officer at Microsoft

Matt is a technologist and a problem solver to the core, and relishes finding outcomes that transform operations, empower people, create new opportunities and fundamentally make a difference through digital implementations. Cultural and mindset transformation is his focus area in any situation, bringing people, the consumers and beneficiaries of technology on the journey to outcome delivery. Matt is a board advisor to the Net Zero Technology Centre, and a member of techUK’s Climate Strategy & Resilience Council. He was Microsoft’s Chief Digital Officer for 4 years, and since November 2021 has been the CDO at Costain Group, where he defines technology-empowered business diversification and pushes the technology use cases to the edge of transformation for the benefit of the customer and market they operate within.