# Matt Barton

> Matt Barton is a Boston-based engineer and technology executive whose career moved from manufacturing engineering and management consulting to the founding technical team at Embark Veterinary. As Embark's chief technology officer and director of scientific engineering, he has worked where software, consumer products and canine genomics meet, and is a named inventor on a U.S. patent for methods that estimate ancestral relatedness.

- **Role:** Chief Technology Officer at Embark Veterinary
- **Organizations:** Embark Veterinary, Oliver Wyman Labs, University of Cambridge, Stanford University
- **Education:** M.Eng. and M.A., Manufacturing Engineering Tripos, University of Cambridge, Graduate certificates in Software Systems and Computer Science, Stanford University
- **Known for:** Joined Embark Veterinary's early operating team as chief technology officer at the company's 2016 launch., Serves in overlapping technical leadership roles publicly described as founding engineer, chief technology officer and director of scientific engineering., Named as one of six inventors on U.S. Patent No. 11,501,851 for methods and systems that estimate ancestral relatedness.

## Career timeline

- **2009-2016** — Held roles at Oliver Wyman Labs, applying technology and analytics in a management-consulting setting.
- **2014** — Earned a Machine Learning certificate through Coursera.
- **2016** — Joined Embark Veterinary as chief technology officer; later public profiles also describe him as founding engineer and director of scientific engineering.
- **2019** — A provisional application was filed for ancestral-relatedness methods later credited to Barton and five co-inventors.
- **2022** — Named as an inventor on U.S. Patent No. 11,501,851, covering methods and systems for determining ancestral relatedness.
- **2023** — A continuation patent application for the ancestral-relatedness system was published as US 2023/0061512 A1.

## Achievements

- Joined Embark Veterinary's early operating team as chief technology officer at the company's 2016 launch.
- Serves in overlapping technical leadership roles publicly described as founding engineer, chief technology officer and director of scientific engineering.
- Named as one of six inventors on U.S. Patent No. 11,501,851 for methods and systems that estimate ancestral relatedness.
- Helped connect scientific analysis, consumer software and operational tooling in a canine-genomics business.
- Publicly credited a design and engineering partner with packaging improvements, operational automation and support during a $4.5 million funding round.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Current public professional listings continue to identify Barton as Embark Veterinary's chief technology officer in Boston.
- **2023-03** — A continuation application for the Embark ancestral-relatedness system naming Barton as an inventor was published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
- **2022-11** — U.S. Patent No. 11,501,851, Methods and Systems for Determining Ancestral Relatedness, was granted to Embark Veterinary with Barton among six inventors.

## Links

- Website: https://embarkvet.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-barton-cto
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/TheMattBarton

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Last updated: 2026-09-28