Matt McIlwain joined Madrona in 2000 from an unusually operational background for a venture investor - Vice President of Business Process at Genuine Parts Company, engagement manager at McKinsey, and earlier investment banking at Credit Suisse. He is closely identified with Madrona's long-duration company-building style and with the Seattle cloud and enterprise software ecosystem that grew up around the firm. The right story to attach to him isn't a single flashy seed check; it's Madrona's repeated 'day one to IPO' framing, where Smartsheet, Redfin, Impinj, and Apptio function as decades-long case studies in patient company formation rather than quick exits. Search-visible Madrona materials do not disclose his education, so that field is intentionally left blank here.
Previous Experience
Vice President of Business Process, Genuine Parts Company