Matthew Howard is a former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst at Norwest Venture Partners who uses his military background to assess defense and intelligence founders, emphasizing that veterans have unique insights from being on the front line with deeper understanding of mission-critical problems. As a long-tenured Norwest leader focused on enterprise infrastructure, security, cloud, and data, he brings a founder-like builder orientation to board work, often joining early and staying through scale and IPO while emphasizing team-building and leadership development as core to value creation. Matthew Howard is a former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst at Norwest Venture Partners who uses his military background to assess defense and intelligence founders, emphasizing that veterans have unique insights from being on the front line with deeper understanding of mission-critical problems. As a long-tenured Norwest leader focused on enterprise infrastructure, security, cloud, and data, he brings a founder-like builder orientation to board work, often joining early and staying through scale and IPO while emphasizing team-building and leadership development as core to value creation.