Usman Khan – Managing Director of Matrix Insight
Usman has been an Executive Director of Matrix since 2003 and became a co-owner in 2005. When Usman joined Matrix as a Managing Consultant in 2001 the focus of his work was in health and he still works for health clients, although his focus now is on the ‘day job’ of running Matrix Insight. This ‘day job’ mirrors fairly closely the three elements of the company’s Business Plan. The ‘organic’ part sees him supporting the Insight team in all things from heading out to meet new clients to ensuring that the company is recruiting the next wave of researchers and consultants. Matrix’s ‘grow along’ work means that the company has to be talking to existing and potential partners, whilst the ‘strategic growth’ strategy gets Usman out to organisations and teams that might become part of the Matrix Insight team through acquisition or merger.
Usman also holds the ‘people and change’ brief at Board level, which encompasses everything from recruitment to training and development.
Before joining Matrix Usman worked in local government before becoming an academic where he latterly worked at London Metropolitan University at Course Director of the International Masters in Public Administration. Alongside his academic post Usman was non-executive Chair at Camden & Islington Community NHS Trust from 1999 to 2002. In 2003 he swapped over to the third sector as first a trustee at Turning Point and then it’s Chair between 2005 and 2007.
