Stuart McDonald MC

Stuart McDonald MC

Risk Management Professional & Complex Case Investigator

Stuart is a decorated former Army officer, who transitioned into the financial sector before helping to establish Matrix. He is a proven leader and security and risk management professional, and he leads on complex investigations.

After graduating from Edinburgh with a Business Studies degree, He embarked on a 17-year career as an officer with The Parachute Regiment, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. His Army career was largely operationally focussed and in 2009, he was awarded the Military Cross for ‘outstanding leadership, coupled with exceptional and overt gallantry in the face of the enemy’. He also held staff appointments within the Army’s Headquarters and the Ministry of Defence.

On leaving the Army, Stuart joined Barclays Bank as the global Head of Governance and Compliance for corporate security, before assuming the role of European and Indian Head of Security. He then transitioned into Finance, assuming the role of Chief of Staff to the bank’s CFO. Whilst there, he was head-hunted for a role as Chief of Staff to the CEO of a global private equity firm; a role he left to help establish Matrix.

Awards

Stuart was awarded the Military Cross for ‘outstanding leadership, with exceptional and overt gallantry in the face of the enemy'

Accreditations

He graduated from Edinburgh University with a Business Studies degree

Publications

Fed-up with the lack of police results, Victims of fraud are going private