The Social Stock Market Ltd was officially formed on 3rd January 2013. The idea was the brainchild of founding Directors Matthew Brumpton and Matthew Norton. Matthew Brumpton working in the business of big data and large data architecture has the “light bulb moment” of taking his experience of handling Big Data in this new era to the consumer. Matthew Norton helped develop business models and develop commercial viability to ensure the project could come to full fruition.

The two founding members then set about building a business, creating a unique architecture to consume, analyse and present vast amounts of data on any subject. The ideas just kept coming and the model continually evolving.

One of the two founding members, Matthew Brumpton holds position of Technical Director. Matthew has a BSc in Music Technology and Audio Systems where he learnt to program system level software and web applications. Matthew has spent ten years working in software development and data archiving in various positions. Currently Matthew works in the public sector and leads a team of developers specialising in enterprise search applications.

At the SSM Matthew is responsible for management and organisation of all technical development of the company ranging from designing and building the database infrastructure to integrating the user interface with the architecture making use of several programming languages.

As the second founding member, Matthew Norton holds the position of Business Director. Matthew studied a BSc Economics at University. Matthew has worked in the Finance Industry for over ten years in roles ranging from accountancy to Operational Management.

Matthew takes care of all matters outside of the technical side ranging from building business models and financial projections, to handling the marketing and legal side of the business, as well as dabbling in SQL and mathematical algorithms.

We have continued to build the team and have a Design and UI developer, and Natural Language Processing Engineer. Both highly skilled with many years' experience.