Headquartered in Sweden, IFS is a provider of enterprise software for enterprise resource planning (ERP), enterprise asset management and enterprise service management. The leading product, IFS Applications, has over 1,000,000 users. It has more than 7,000 employees in more than 80 countries.
IFS has been owned by EQT since 2015, with minority stakes held by Hg and TA Associates.
Matthews has spent his entire career of more than 28 years with IFS. He was promoted to become CTO in 2020. He holds a MSc in Computer Science and Software Engineering from Linköping University and is based in Sweden.