Matt Barker
Matt Barker is the founder and CEO of MPB, a pioneering recommerce platform that enables visual storytellers to buy, sell, and trade used photo and video equipment. Since founding MPB in 2011, Matt has built a trusted global brand on a simple idea, making it faster, fairer and more reliable for creators to access the kit they need. With operations in the UK, US, and Germany, as well as localised platforms in 11 markets across Europe and the US, MPB has become a leader in circular commerce, empowering photographers and videographers at every level. MPB’s impressive growth has been recognised by the FT1000: Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies list for five consecutive years, reflecting its industry influence and global reach. Driven by a passion for technology, innovation and company culture, Matt champions a people-first approach to growth. He’s also guiding the thoughtful integration of AI across MPB, embedding it where it adds real value to help teams work smarter, solve problems creatively and focus on high-impact work. Sustainability is built into everything MPB does. The company’s triple-bottom-line approach, balancing people, planet, and profit, drives growth in the circular economy, promotes inclusion and ensures a trusted experience for every customer.
Kat Mitchell
Kat Mitchell is the co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer at MPB and a member of the MPB Board. MPB’s circular business model extends the life and creative potential of used photo and video equipment, making kit more accessible, affordable and sustainable for creators around the world. Combining strategic expertise with a passion for technology and data, Kat helps MPB stay ahead of market trends while keeping accessibility and inclusion at the heart of its model. With a strong background in finance, operations, and strategy, Kat has been a driving force in MPB’s international growth, launching platforms in the UK, US and across the EU, as well as contributing to the company’s recognition on the FT1000: Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies list for five consecutive years. As Chief Revenue Officer, Kat leads MPB’s global Revenue, Pricing, and Data teams, shaping how insight, technology and pricing come together to support MPB’s commercial strategy. She has played a central role in developing MPB’s data culture and advancing its use of emerging technologies, including AI and dynamic pricing capabilities, to support scalability, strengthen decision-making and power the company’s global growth ambitions.
Sophie Collins
Sophie Collins is MPB’s Chief Marketing Officer, leading global marketing to strengthen the brand, accelerate growth and champion purpose-led storytelling. Named one of Campaign magazine’s ‘40 Over 40 marketeers’, Sophie combines creativity and data-driven insight to connect with audiences and build meaningful engagement around MPB’s mission. Under her leadership, MPB’s sustainable marketing efforts have earned industry recognition, winning Campaign’s Ad Net Zero awards in both 2022 and 2024 and being shortlisted in 2023. Sophie spearheaded MPB’s Digital Media Carbon Reduction initiative, cutting digital advertising emissions by 15% while improving campaign performance. She also ensures that at least 60% of MPB’s marketing features underrepresented groups, reflecting MPB’s commitment to inclusive storytelling and authentic representation across its campaigns. A passionate amateur photographer, she believes in the power of visual storytelling to spark change, whether by amplifying voices, raising awareness of global issues or making creative tools more accessible. Beyond MPB, she supports this mission as a Trustee of the Royal Photographic Society, where she brings a unique blend of creativity, purpose and commercial insight to every campaign.
Sophie Davies-Patrick
As Chief Technology Officer, Sophie Davies-Patrick leads MPB’s technology strategy, driving innovation, scalability and customer impact through agile software development. With over two decades of experience across American Express, Clearleft, Yahoo! and the British Airports Authority, she brings deep expertise in engineering and transformation. Since joining MPB, Sophie has strengthened the company’s technical foundations and enhanced platform performance, playing a pivotal role in the scaling of MPB’s global operations. Recognised as CTO of the Year at the Women in IT Awards UK 2021, she is known for her collaborative leadership and for building high-performing, inclusive teams. In 2025, Sophie was also named on the CTO Craft 100, a list celebrating 100 technology leaders making an impact across the industry for their vision, influence and positive leadership. Sophie is leading MPB’s rollout and adoption of AI, integrating it thoughtfully and responsibly to empower MPB’s people. By embedding AI where it adds real value, she’s helping MPBers work smarter, solve problems creatively and focus on the high-impact work that drives the company’s mission forward. Her values-led approach ensures that innovation at MPB always aligns with its commitments to people, planet and performance.
Becci Edmondson
Focused on solving customer problems in a way that delivers business value, Becci Edmondson is Chief Product Officer at MPB. As a creative problem-solver, Becci leads her team in designing beautiful solutions based on research, data and human-centred design principles. Before her promotion to the executive team in 2022, Becci was MPB’s Head of Product. Becci played a pivotal role in guiding the direction of MPB’s product development, establishing a growing and highly impactful product function, and ensuring the successful launch of the upgraded MPB platform.
A highly driven professional, Becci has an excellent overall understanding of business needs, from operations through to marketing. Becci co-heads MPB’s Product and Engineering team alongside Sophie Davies-Patrick.
Scott Ryan
Scott Ryan is the Chief Financial Officer at MPB and a member of the MPB Board. He leads the Finance, Risk and Governance functions, supporting MPB’s global growth and long-term sustainability. With more than 20 years of experience across finance and operational leadership, Scott has built a career scaling high-growth, consumer-facing digital and e-commerce businesses. Before joining MPB in 2018, Scott held senior finance and board-level roles across a range of PE- and VC-backed companies, including Beauty Pie, Foam and Substance and Friday Media Group, as well as interim CFO roles supporting start-ups and early-stage businesses through periods of rapid growth and transformation. Earlier in his career, he spent several years at Friday Media Group, where he led finance, operations, and M&A activity across the UK, the US, and Europe, and began his career at the BBC, working across group finance and large-scale finance transformation programmes. At MPB, Scott has played a pivotal role in supporting international expansion and consistent year-over-year growth. He has strengthened the company’s financial foundations, built robust governance and risk frameworks, and worked closely with investors and the board to support strategic decision-making. Scott is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA). Known for his entrepreneurial mindset and hands-on leadership style, Scott brings a pragmatic, commercial approach to finance, helping MPB balance ambition with discipline as it continues to grow as a category-leading circular business.
Frank Sullivan
Frank Sullivan is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) at MPB, the leading global platform for buying, selling and trading used photo and video equipment. With a deep belief in the circular economy, Frank brings hands-on industry experience, operational leadership and technological curiosity to MPB’s mission of making gear more accessible, affordable and sustainable for creators around the world. A former professional photographer, Frank understands the needs of MPB’s global community of visual storytellers, insight that continues to shape his practical, customer-focused approach. Before becoming COO, he held several key roles across the organisation, developing significant expertise in operations management, process design and logistics. In his role as COO, Frank is responsible for scaling MPB’s fulfilment, inspection, inventory and global circular commerce centres. As MPB has expanded into an international organisation with three facilities serving the UK, North America and Europe, Frank has grown the Operations function to support this scale. Today, Operations represents nearly half of MPB’s workforce and provides the backbone for the company’s global growth. Frank champions the thoughtful use of AI, data and intelligent automation to elevate the customer experience, improve quality and deliver operational excellence at scale. Passionate about sustainability and circularity, he is proud to help build the operational foundations of MPB’s circular model, supporting the founding belief that a highly fragmented market can be transformed into a truly global, efficient and sustainable business.