Matthew Nemerson, President & CEO

Matthew has spent his career building stronger communities by leading creative organizations, promoting entrepreneurship and growth policies and starting and assisting innovative businesses in Connecticut.

Since 2003 he has been President and CEO of the Connecticut Technology Council (CTC), an organization dedicated to stimulating the growth of the state’s innovation economy. Previously, he was Executive Vice President & COO of Netkey, Inc. a start-up software firm in Branford which was acquired by NCR.

Through events, partnerships and advocacy, CTC facilitates support in the state for technology- led economic growth. It fosters the creation of a culture of innovation that will lead to investment and job expansion due to an attractive global reputation and policies.

CTC works with firms of all sizes, stressing advice and mentoring for start-ups, networking and connections for mid-sized companies and helping larger firms play a role in policy leadership. Through notable events such as the Tech Top 40, the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Summit and the Women of Innovation dinner, CTC reaches out to thousands of tech members each year.

In 1983, after running a business in Washington D.C., Matthew was the founding Vice President of the Science Park Development Corporation, the inner city tech park and incubator complex affiliated with Yale University utilizing the former Winchester Rifle factory complex. He left Science Park to become the president for the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce and the affiliated Regional Leadership Council. During his 13 years there, he founded and ran a downtown development corporation.

Before Science Park he was publisher of the national policy magazine The Washington Monthly, a reporter for Fortune Magazine, a staff director for a committee of the Connecticut State Legislature and worked for the late U.S. Senator Abraham Ribicoff (D-CT).

Matthew is a 1978 graduate of Columbia College (AB) in the City of New York, the Yale School of Management in 1981 (MPPM aka MBA) and has attended the Center for Creative Leadership in North Carolina.

He lives in New Haven with his wife, Marian Chertow, professor of Industrial Ecology at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and his two daughters. Among various volunteer activities, Matthew is chairman of the New Haven Parking Authority, has recently been on the Connecticut United Way Board and is a member of the Connecticut Transportation Strategy Board. From 2009 to 2011 he was the volunteer chair of TECNA, the association of technology councils from across the USA and Canada.