About Us

Founded by a veteran. Built into a group that delivers.

M2T Group started with one Defence veteran and a clear idea. A few years on, it’s a fast-growing group of consultants, engineers and trainers delivering across Australia’s most sensitive Defence programs.

Our Story

M2T Solutions was founded by Brenden Matthews, a 20-year Army veteran and former Chief Engineer who saw an opportunity to bring something new to Defence: a consultancy built by people who understood it from the inside. He recognised that consulting, equipment and training didn’t have to come from three different suppliers, they could come from one team that understood how they fit together. What began as one veteran and a laptop has grown into M2T Group, three capabilities, one veteran-owned team, working in step. Consulting, specialist equipment and accredited training, delivered by the same standard, from the same source.

Our Purpose

We started M2T Group to give Defence and government clients a partner that adapts to their requirements.

Solve the problem in front of us

We look at what a client actually needs first, then build the team, equipment or training program around it.

Grow deliberately, deliver relentlessly

We’ve grown from one consultant to a multi-company group by taking on the right work, with the right people, at the right pace, never the other way around.

Bring hard-won experience to every engagement

Our leadership has decades of Defence experience between them. We don’t just understand high-stakes environments, we’ve served in them.

Our Values

Our values were forged in Defence and built into everything we do.

Reputation

Good people, doing good work, that’s the whole strategy. Every consultant, every course, every unit of equipment either builds our name or costs us it. We don’t leave that to chance.

Innovation

We don’t have all the answers, and we’re not pretending to. Our best ideas come from the people doing the work and the clients living with the outcomes, so we listen, and we keep getting better.

Trust

Complexity doesn’t get solved by contract, it gets solved by trust. With our people, our clients, our suppliers. Without it, nothing else here matters.

Proven expertise under pressure. Applied to the problem in front of you.

Team

The people leading M2T Group: veterans, specialists and builders of Australia's most important capability.

Brenden Matthews

Group Founder and Director

Brenden founded M2T Solutions after 20 years in Defence, including roles as a Chief Engineer and Program Manager. He built the business on his own reputation in the Defence industry and now leads M2T Global while overseeing the group’s growth across all three companies.

Jacinta Matthews

Training Director

Jacinta Matthews, founder of M2T Training, draws on her own experience of domestic violence to build workforce pathways for women — delivering practical training, employment support, and a genuine second chance to rebuild their careers.

Kelly-Anne Shipway

CFO

Kelly-Anne Shipway is CFO of M2T Solutions and Deputy Director, Audit Program at the Department of Defence. An Indigenous woman leading in Defence governance, she brings 20+ years’ experience across procurement and audit, negotiated a $1.1B contract, and also drives M2T’s veteran employment initiatives.

Today's problem or tomorrow's, we're ready to talk

Get in touch with M2T Group to discuss your consulting, supply chain or training needs.