Meet Matt Newman

Mo Ayadi

Chief Information Officer

Matt Newman is the Chief Revenue Officer at FMG, responsible for all revenue functions including Sales, Customer Success, and Revenue Operations.

Matt brings over 30 years of global experience growing and transforming services and FinTech businesses, with leadership roles spanning sales, customer success, product, & engineering. Before joining FMG, he served as Chief Revenue Officer at Hearsay, where he led revenue teams from 2021 through the company’s acquisition by Yext in 2024. Prior to Hearsay, Matt was Global Head of Sales and a member of the leadership team at Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), helping guide the business from its spin-off from MSCI in 2014 through its $2.2 billion sale to Deutsche Börse in 2021. During his 17-year tenure at ISS and RiskMetrics, Newman led product, customer success and sales teams.

Matt began his career as a developer and architect at Andersen Consulting, Price Waterhouse, and Castle Point Systems, which he co-founded in 1996 and was acquired by Meritage Technologies in 2000. Matt holds a degree in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and lives in Rhode Island..

When he is not playing Pickleball or trying to knock off a bucket list travel spot, you can find Matt and his family at the beaches in Rhode Island in the summer and skiing in the winter.