One experienced product design engineer, from strategy to the factory floor.
Cross-discipline product design engineering, fourteen years in.
I'm Matt Granger. I founded Venn Projects in 2025 to give early stage ventures and agencies senior product development experience without a permanent hire. Available when you need it, redeployed when you don't.
Fourteen years of it, spent with factories and teams around the world: Germany, Austria, Portugal, Vietnam, China, Taiwan and the USA. Not at the comfortable, well resourced end of hardware development, but at the attempting-to-shift-industries end, where ambition and volatility go hand in hand.
One foot in the boardroom.
I held a seat at board level in a product-led business through some of the most turbulent conditions of the last decade: COVID supply chain disruption, the Ever Given blocking the Suez Canal, product recalls, and the economic pressure that followed. Not as an observer, but as someone shaping the decisions that kept the business moving, while still delivering a product roadmap.
I have also lived through three significant business restructures in five years. Those weren't setbacks. They were an education in what separates the ventures that make it from the ones that don't.
It means I understand commercial pressure, stakeholder dynamics and the real cost of a wrong decision in a way most external consultants don't.
The person on the discovery call,
does the work.
You will hear early if a deadline is at risk, if a decision is heading the wrong way, or if a piece of work would sit better with someone else. Progress, risk and cost stay visible, because a client who can see a problem coming can still do something about it.
Where the scope needs it, I bring in trusted specialists from my network: experienced people who share the same ethos and have often worked alongside me before, assembled around your project and its specific needs.
Which industries do I typically work in?
Electrical Appliances
Commercial and professional duty equipment, plus consumer products built to last. Specified on minimising Op-Ex and service cost, not shelf price.
Bicycles &
e-Bikes
Ergonomic lightweight children's bikes, Aluminium platforms and specialist frames for unusual applications, concept through to production ramp.
Bicycle Components
Saddles, pedals, posts, bars and levers, engineered in the UK and manufactured in Taiwan.
e-Cargo & Micromobility
Quadricycles, two-wheelers and cargo bikes for last mile and q-commerce logistics.
Big relationships,
built for the future.
I have first hand experience of drive unit integration with Mahle Smartbike Systems, CIXI, Bosch, Heinzmann and Yamaha. As a former bicycle industry Head of Product, I have extensive experience with component supply chains, compliance and strategic product management.
Additionally I’ve actively contributed to Shift Cycling Culture for over 6 years and hold membership to the Chartered Institute of Waste Management following successful completion of the Design Council’s pilot Design Skills for Embedding Circularity program supported by Biffa, Suez, CEI and WRAP.
Seasoned in collaboration with global teams.
Most of my work is delivered without ever being in the same room (or even the same country) as the client. Fourteen years across factories and teams in Germany, Austria, Portugal, Vietnam, China, Taiwan and the USA has produced the tools and techniques needed to keep a programme moving wherever it sits.
Based in central England, I sit on the edge of the UK’s motorsport valley — one of the most concentrated clusters of engineering expertise in the world. London and Birmingham are both an hour by train, Oxford an hour south, and five international airports within easy reach.
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