Matt Robinson is Paragon Health Institute’s Executive Vice President. In this role, he serves as a strategic partner to the President in helping to implement organizational vision, provide operational direction, and monitor progress toward annual goals across the institute. He joins Paragon with more than 20 years of experience in executive leadership, policy engagement, and communications in both government and the private sector.
Robinson began his career as a journalist. For five years, he covered national issues and policy at Investor’s Business Daily. He left IBD after winning the Novak Fellowship. Over the next year, he wrote and published Mobocracy: How the Media’s Obsession with Polling Twists the News, Alters Elections, and Undermines Democracy (Random House).
During the Bush administration, Robinson drove executive communications for the U.S. secretary of education and both U.S. attorneys general. He then went to the White House, writing speeches for the president on health care, education, the financial crisis, and other policy priorities.
In the private sector, Robinson worked for Chairman Rex W. Tillerson and the management committee of ExxonMobil as well as Marillyn Hewson, CEO of Lockheed Martin. He is skilled in corporate communications, executive communications, change management, issues advocacy, government relations, and digital transformation.
He attended the University of California at San Diego where he graduated Summa Cum Laude with a degree in philosophy. He currently lives in Rockville, Maryland with his wife and three children.