Fireside chat with Matt Carter

Matt Carter is the Chief Executive Officer of Aryaka, headquartered in San Mateo, CA. He is leading the long-term market strategy and day-to-day operations, while guiding the company's vision for an increasingly connected world. 

 Prior to Aryaka, Matt served as President and CEO of Inteliquent Inc, a publicly traded provider of cloud-based networking services for global enterprises, which was successfully acquired by GCTR, a Chicago based PE firm. Matt previously held a series of executive positions with Sprint Corporation including serving as President of the Sprint Enterprise Solutions. He also served as President of Boost Mobile, a leading provider of no contract wireless services. 

 He serves on the board of directors of JLL and NRG Energy. 

 Matt earned his master’s degree in general management from the Harvard Business School and his bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University.

As the new head of editorial at Google Cloud, Quentin Hardy writes about the technology and impact of cloud computing, both inside Google and for other publications. Starting his career as an international publisher, he had previously worked as Deputy Technology Editor at The New York Times, National Editor at Forbes, and a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, having written about many diverse topics. One of his articles, titled “Hope and Profit in Africa”, received an Overseas Press Club award. 

He frequently appears on television and moderates panels at The World Affairs Council and The Computer History Museum. One of his more well-known panels is called “Programming the System of the World: The Industrial Internet of Things”, where they discussed the advances in new technologies and how they will change the world. Not only that, but he also has degrees from Kenyon College, The School of Oriental and African Studies, and Columbia University, where he was awarded a Knight-Begahot Fellowship in 1955.