Matthew Tucker


Matthew Tucker

Chief Operating Officer

Matthew Tucker is Chief Operating Officer at Payfone, Inc., and is chartered with driving the company’s global expansion and mobile payments adoption worldwide. Matthew brings to Payfone significant background in leveraging global relationships to successfully build and scale growth stage companies.

Matthew was on the founding management team of LendingTree, and previously served as head of business development at Smart System Technologies, a VC-funded start-up specializing in the commercialization of Near Field Communications technologies and related applications.

Matthew was most recently the President of Recyclebank, the Wall Street Journal’s 2011 number four-ranked “Next Big Thing” venture-backed company. Recyclebank provides rewards to consumers who take environmental actions. Prior to Recyclebank, Matthew was President and CEO of Rely Software, a leading provider of cloud-based supply chain software.

Matthew received his Master of Business Administration from Georgetown University and received his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan.