Integrity Partners is Matthew Batchelor — a fractional and interim CTO working with founders, boards and investors. Thirty years of building, scaling and fixing technology businesses, brought to bear in days rather than months.
Long-term interim for businesses that need stability and consistency — or part-time fractional leadership alongside the team you already have.
A trusted sounding board for CEOs, boards and in-house technology leaders. Short term or long term, connected to an engagement or entirely standalone.
Short, sharp and focused. A strategic review that establishes confidence in the technology — or validates and refutes the initial view — always with actionable next steps.
Businesses and funds I have worked with
How I work
Integrity Partners was born out of a desire to get involved with multiple businesses and solve difficult strategic problems around people, technology and process. That means engagements are shaped around what a business actually needs — not around filling a seat.
Stepping in to lead technology and product — whether that's holding the line through a transition, or giving a scaling business senior leadership two days a week instead of a full-time hire it isn't ready for.
Part-time advisory or mentoring on a short or longer-term basis, dependent on the requirement. Often the most valuable thing a technology leader can have is someone who has already been where they are going.
Often with a quick turnaround required, a strategic review to establish confidence in the tech and help validate or refute the initial view. The insight is always actionable and allows for solid next steps.
AI
Most businesses have now run an experiment or two and stalled somewhere between a promising demo and anything that actually changes how the company works. Closing that gap is a leadership problem — strategy, sequencing, guardrails and change — far more than a modelling one. That is the part I help with.
Separating the genuine opportunities from the noise — which processes, which products, what the case for each really looks like, and what to leave well alone for now. An honest view of where the return is, and where it is not there yet.
Getting tools into the hands of engineering and of everyone else: what to buy, how to set the guardrails, and how to build the habits that make it stick. Adoption is a change problem long before it is a technology one.
Building AI into what you sell, and building it properly — model choice, evaluation, cost and latency, and a sensible answer for when the model gets it wrong. Something customers can rely on rather than a demo that impresses once.
Data protection, intellectual property, vendor lock-in and the questions a board or an investor is going to ask. Policies people will actually follow, and a clear account of how AI is used when someone comes to look.
This runs through all three modes above rather than sitting apart from them — as an interim or fractional CTO owning the programme end to end, as an adviser to a CEO or board deciding where to commit, or as part of due diligence, where how a business uses AI, and what AI does to the durability of its position, are now among the questions worth the most attention.
Who I work with
Start-ups, seed funded, Series A–C backed and large enterprise businesses spanning the world — private equity, venture capital backed and publicly funded alike.
Due diligence ahead of a deal, technology assessment across a portfolio, and CTOs placed into portfolio businesses. I have worked at GP level as a Technology Partner with Bridgepoint, a FTSE-listed PE business.
Confident reporting up to board level on all aspects of technology and product — in the boardroom where strategy is set, and between meetings on the topics that will materially move the business.
Senior technology judgement for businesses scaling faster than their tech function. Momentum and speed of implementation, without the cost or commitment of a permanent hire before you need one.
Mentoring for CTOs, Heads of Technology and Heads of Data — including leaders promoted from within who are doing the job for the first time and want someone in their corner.
Industries
Track record
Every engagement below was taken on independently through Integrity Partners. Some ran for a matter of days; many have run for multiple years.
Fractional CTO
July 2026 – present
Bringing three decades of experience to bear at a private equity fund with $17bn of assets under management, helping them along their maturity cycle with technology.
Fractional CTO
April 2024 – present
Retained following a discovery phase and presenting to the Partners on the steps required to increase technology maturity at fund level.
Interim CTO
August 2024 – October 2025
Separation of the International business from Group.
Fractional CTO
October 2023 – December 2024
Engaged to devise the long-term data strategy for the fund, then retained through 2024 to bring it to life with internal members of the team.
Technology Adviser
July 2024 – October 2024
Working with the COO and the technology and product team to create a three-year blueprint covering both platform and people.
Fractional IT Director & Adviser
August 2023 – July 2024
Retained by the leading family law business in the UK to help them exit midway through 2024.
Interim Technical Director
June 2016 – April 2018 · returned January – April 2024
Brought in during a challenging time, with several people leaving and no clear direction on technology. Steadied things, re-platformed the externally facing websites, delivered GDPR compliance and moved the business towards cloud and digital ways of working — then returned in 2024 to help make some difficult decisions and unblock the path again.
Interim CTO
July 2021 – July 2022
Interim role aiding the business through a large-scale transformation — taking a cottage industry on a significant digital course.
Interim CTO & Mentor
October 2020 – May 2022
Asked in by Mercia following a due diligence. Helped transform platform and product while supporting business as usual and new sales, then mentored the newly appointed CTO promoted from within.
Funds I have worked alongside
Before Integrity Partners
The independent work is built on a career spent inside businesses — running product and engineering teams, and taking two of them through to exit.
2014
Chief Technology Officer
Product and technology for the Ancestry.com competitor, with a combined team of 80 across London, Dundee, Boulder and Orem. Hired to kick-start an ailing technology business and re-platform Findmypast, Genes Reunited, Scotland's People, Lives of the First World War and WDYTYA Story onto a single platform. Led a pivotal acquisition of US business Mocavo.
2013 – 2014
Group Chief Technology Officer
Product and technology for a team of 75, appointed to the Board during my tenure. Hired to leverage the momondo acquisition and turn Cheapflights' business model from ingesting deals to a real-time meta model able to compete with Skyscanner, while integrating two very distinct businesses. The move readied the business for a buyout that valued momondo at $550m.
2010 – 2013
Chief Technology Officer
Recruited to reorganise the technology function and re-architect the platform for projected growth in consumer bookings and restaurant engagement, while readying the business for an exit on a three-year horizon.
2008 – 2010
Chief Technology Officer
Scaled the platform to sustain growing demand from a readership spanning Deutsche Bank to Morgan Stanley, and prepared the business for sale. Responsible for technology across Europe, New York and Hong Kong, and critical to the sale to Thomson Reuters — illustrating the value technology brought to the table for key stakeholders.
2007 – 2008
VP, Head of Technology
Appointed to the management team of an Eden Ventures-backed business, responsible for development, QA, IT and operations. Hired to get a release cycle nine months behind schedule under control — achieved through an agile process iterating in two-week cycles.
2001 – 2007
VP, Head of Technology
All externally facing systems supporting a sports-centric customer base, with a multi-discipline team of 35 spread globally, based between New York and London. Projects with budgets exceeding £5m against immovable sporting deadlines — including architecting Manchester United's online store, ECRM API and ticketing commerce, where a single fixture could sell out within the hour. Fully responsible for a £3m hosting facility averaging 500 million page impressions.
1996 – 2001
Technical Director & consulting roles
Established an interactive television offering at marchFIRST from business plan through to network provider deals. Before that, Technical Director at Grey Interactive, managing 45 technical staff on projects in excess of £1m for Mars, Laing, British American Tobacco, AstraZeneca and Airtours.
About
Integrity Partners is my own business, where I act as an independent. It was born out of my high integrity and a desire to help multiple clients at one time. As a result I specialise in fractional, interim, due diligence, advisory and mentoring engagements — often with space between engagements, so I am available to help at short notice.
Since starting the business I have worked with start-ups, seed funded, Series A–C backed and large enterprise businesses spanning the world. I am comfortable with private equity, venture capital backed and publicly funded businesses, and have been lucky enough to work as a Technology Partner at GP level with Bridgepoint, a successful FTSE-listed PE business.
I'm a commercially minded B2B and B2C Chief Technology Officer who is passionate about product, with deep experience in real-time, high-availability cloud systems and extremely responsive SaaS platforms built on microservices, accessible on web or mobile. I'm at home designing enterprise platforms that deal with large volumes and demanding audiences.
I have a proven track record of leading large multi-discipline teams, and of managing onshore, nearshore, offshore and distributed teams across three continents. Each comes with different challenges, and I'm experienced at getting the best out of the teams I manage and the individuals who make them up. Methodologies include Agile, Scrum, Lean, Waterfall and RUP — or a common-sense hybrid formed from the strengths of each.
When I'm not living and breathing the businesses I'm working with, I spend time with my family and my three sons, and I make and bake things — which I write up on my blog, Batch From Scratch.
Areas of depth
Get in touch
Whether it's a multi-year interim role, a single day of due diligence, or a conversation about whether you need either — reach out today.
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