Matt has been a member of the staff since 1997, when he was only 16 years old. He has worked with animals all his life, including volunteering at Safari West, working with Wildlife Fawn Rescue, and traveling to Namibia, Africa to work with the Cheetah Conservation Fund. Matt has two cats of his own, a female Bengal named Calypso and a solid white male named Yeti. In the past, he has had exotic pets such as leopard geckos, scorpions, and tarantulas.
Matt graduated from Cloverdale High School in 1999, then from Sonoma State University with a BA in Liberal Studies in 2003, and received his Registered Veterinary Technician license in 2006. Matt and his business partner, Katie Silva, DVM purchased the practice from Dr. Biery in 2020.
In his free time, Matt enjoys wine tasting with his beautiful wife Elyce, obstacle course racing (Spartan, Tough Mudder), running, working out, playing tennis, baseball, football, and playing board games with his fellow co-workers and friends. Matt has two sons, Dylan who was born in 1998 and Noah who was born in 2014. Matt has lived in Cloverdale almost his whole life and loves being able to help the animals in the community that he lives in.