Matthew C Martino is a British
Entrepreneur, Author and Philanthropist. We managed to get an interview with
him to discuss his businesses Lets Fly Academy, MMD-Tech and his new charitable
trust MMBF.
1 1) What inspired you to launch
your site, and how did you choose the name, "Lets Fly Academy"?
I had just written my pilots manual Lets Fly and this Academy was going to be the support for that and provide more resources, information and support for aspiring pilots so I decided to name it Lets Fly Academy and this helped in branding it as people who would have read my book would recognise the Academy.
2) How did you first get interested in been an Author?
Back in 2010 I
started having an interest in writing, the problem was I was always busy doing
hundreds of things so I couldn’t really just focus on one thing and when I
finally got to writing Lets Fly it got interested and I followed on with Go For
It it just got better, I also wrote some short film scripts which I managed to
produce and one was directed by Daniel De Ath.
3) How would you compare the creative work of developing apps with the creative
process of writing?
Well creating an App is more technical, the apps I have helped develop and sat in on the coding sessions its more about the technical knowledge and algorithms so my colleagues at MMD-Tech are quite brainy, writing on the other hand is a skill, an art which you either have or you don’t have.
4) When you think about your life over the next few years, what do you imagine
yourself doing?
In the next few
years I don’t really know, I’ve just been living every day as it comes. I’m
currently working on growing Lets Fly Academy, investing in developing more
Apps at MMD-Tech and obviously with the MMBF I am hoping the charitable trust will
help many young people out there. I ideally want to in a few years
concentrating on a few businesses and ventures and being hands on, at the
moment as I’m doing so many things I have to delegate a lot of work which means
I don’t get too involved.
5) What has the Matthew Martino Benevolent Fund being able to achieve with it
existence?
The MMBF which
launched on my 22nd birthday has managed to successfully launch the
Matthew Martino Rising Star Award with Colchester Film Festival, we are also
lining up some sponsorships for other initiatives that support young people. We
are in talks to introduce sponsored film courses and form partnerships with
flight schools to offer grants for certain courses. I’m proud of the work the
team are doing and although I’m not too involved with it at the moment, I’ve
made plans to get more stuck in with the charity and help filmmakers and pilots
on the frontline.
Thank You Matthew
Thank You Matthew
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