Mr. Nemerson has a 25 year history of building strong communities, organizations and businesses in Connecticut. Since 2003 he has been President and CEO of the Connecticut Technology Council (CTC), an organization dedicated to stimulating the growth of the state’s innovation economy.  Previously he was EVP & COO of Netkey, Inc, a state start-up software firm acquired by NCR.  In 1983 he was the founding Vice President of the Science Park at Yale incubator complex and afterwards for 13 years was president of the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce.

Before that he was publisher of the national policy magazine The Washington Monthly, a reporter for Fortune Magazine, a staff director for a committee of the Connecticut State Legislature and worked for the late U.S. Senator Abraham Ribicoff.

Matthew is a 1978 graduate of Columbia College (BA) in the City of New York,  the Yale School of Management in 1981 (MBA) and has attended the Center for Creative Leadership in North Carolina.

He lives in New Haven with his wife, Marian Chertow and a professor of Industrial Ecology at the Yale Forestry School and his two daughters. Among various volunteer activities he is chairman of the New Haven Parking Authority and a member of the CT Transportation Strategy Board.