Speaker Profile

Matthew Benham is a British businessman who is the owner of English Premier League club Brentford FC and majority owner of FC Midtjylland in Denmark. He is also the founder and owner of Smartodds, a statistical research company for professional gamblers. A graduate of Oxford University in physics who worked in finance in the City of London, he is widely known for his unorthodox data analytics-driven approach to decision-making in football.