Matthew Watson has a Bachelor of Commerce from University of WA, Diploma in Information Systems from Curtin University, is a Chartered Management Accountant, and a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
He spent over 11 years at Rio Tinto, in business development for iron ore. He was also a manager of international management consulting group Accenture in England and Europe for 2 years, and spent 6 years at Cisco in England prior to that.
Mr Watson joined CTI Logistics in 2010 as a non-executive director, and resigned from the role to take on an executive position in the company in January 2019. He was appointed an executive director in September 2021.