Success in today’s business climate hinges on building a strong and vibrant ecosystem. Salesforce recognized this early on and was one of the first in the cloud computing space to dream up a business model built on partnership. Matt Meyers has been in the tech field for over 20 years and is one of the top experts within the Salesforce ecosystem. As a senior consultant, Matt knows his way around any facet of the Salesforce platform you could imagine. Matt is also an entrepreneur and CEO and co-founder of Adaptus, maker of EzProtect, a Software-as-a-Service virus scanning cyber security platform for Salesforce. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and an MBA from Texas Tech University. Matt’s success in the Salesforce ecosystem has been driven by his expertise, determination, and extensive experience with complex implementations.

Matt has always been intrigued by both technology and business. In fact, he believes that’s why he became so interested in Salesforce because it seemed like the perfect culmination of business and technology. Matt began his career as a Salesforce developer and quickly tried to grasp anything he could to learn as much as he could about the company. He realized early on that knowledge was the key to growing his career to where he wanted to go and living the lifestyle he always wanted. As a result, Matt aggressively went for his first few certifications and then realized he couldn’t grow anymore in his current position. He moved on to join a global consulting company, HCL, where he began his career as a Salesforce consultant.

Consulting gave Matt more power than software development had. He quickly discovered he enjoyed consulting because it allowed him to help people solve complex problems, but for some reason, he was still unfulfilled. Matt yearned for more and desired to work at the company that fueled his passion, Salesforce. In the next few months, Matt spent countless long hours studying and earned various Salesforce certifications until he had just about every certification offered at the time. It was then that he met someone who was a sales executive at Salesforce who connected him with a recruiter, which led to him being successfully hired. Matt started as a customer-facing architect in Salesforce services, helping some of the company’s largest customers implement Salesforce.

The role exposed Matt to more aspects of the business and constantly challenged him, inspiring him to become better at his job. His desire to excel pushed him, and he eventually decided to tackle Salesforce’s highest certification, the Certified Technical Architect credential. Matt says this was the most challenging yet rewarding journey of his career, and it took him over two years to complete. A Certified Technical Architect is pretty much the Ph.D. of Salesforce as of now, and only about 400 people hold this certification worldwide within the ecosystem. After dedicating his entire life and career to Salesforce, Matt’s efforts were finally paying off, and bigger doors were opening.

Over the next few years, he worked his way up until he reached the director level and led all of Salesforce’s program architects in the public sector. After some time in this role, Matt decided he wanted to be more independent and started to think about running his own company. He left Salesforce, made a relationship with a major Salesforce consulting firm, and partnered with someone else to grow his company. A true and respected expert in his field, Matt took up mentoring and training, which he continues to do on his social media profiles. His mission is to empower aspiring architects and help them shorten their learning curve.

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