Matt Olton

SVP, Corporate Development & Strategy at Tenable

Matt joined Tenable from Symantec Corporation, where he was the Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Ventures. In this role, Matt oversaw Symantec’s global mergers and acquisitions activity and managed Symantec’s corporate venture investments. He also led Symantec’s integration management function.

In his career, Matt has led the acquisitions of over 100 companies having aggregate transaction value of more than $20 billion. He works closely with boards of directors, executive management and business units on topics such as strategy, opportunity identification and assessment, transaction structuring and execution and integration.

Prior to joining Symantec, Matt was Senior Vice President, Corporate Development at Dell Technologies Capital, and was responsible for global mergers and acquisitions and related activity for the family of companies that comprises Dell Technologies including Dell, Dell EMC, Pivotal, RSA, Secureworks, Virtustream and Boomi. Prior to Dell Technologies Capital, Matt was Senior Vice President, Corporate Development at EMC Corporation.

Matt started his career as a mergers and acquisition lawyer at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. He has a BA from Wesleyan University, a JD from Boston University School of Law and an MBA from Northeastern University.

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