Matt Campana

Matt Campana’s journey into the world of technology was a rather unconventional one. 

In his early years, he studied at Drexel University and Berklee College of Music to be a composer and learned how to write music for an entire orchestra (something he still does to this day).

Now, in 2025, he orchestrates things in a different sort of way. As Vice President of Digital Transformation at The Judge Group (Judge), Matt is tasked with modernising a vast, growing business, conducting the company’s evolution like a symphony.

While it wasn’t his first love, Matt was always interested in technology and became a Microsoft Certified Professional when he was 14. He took his first job in the sector to fund his music, implementing Electronic Health Record systems at Will’s Eye Hospital in Philadelphia and converting Sunoco’s Mainframe systems to web and eventually to cloud platforms. 

Quickly, though, he realised he was enjoying this “IT side hustle”. 

"I decided, let's go into the field of technology, be able to fund my music and have fun with it," Matt explains. That decision launched a career spanning healthcare, energy and enterprise automation, all of which led him to Judge.

Judge has 30 locations across the US, Canada and India. It partners with the best and brightest companies in business today, including over 60 of the Fortune 100. The company serves organisations in financial services, healthcare, life sciences, insurance, government (including aerospace and defence), manufacturing, technology and telecommunications. Today, Judge employs approximately 4,000 contractors across its various divisions.

"Specifically at the Judge Group, we pay thousands of contractors, and I think about each and every person," Matt says. "That's their day to day, that's their groceries, that's their mortgage, that's their vacation."

This human-centric approach is what sets Judge apart from the crowd. The company's slogan is ‘People-Powered Business Solutions’, which reflects its commitment to maintaining human interaction in an increasingly automated business world. Account representatives work directly with clients to understand their specific staffing and services needs.

But while the company’s focus on people is firm, it always has one eye on the latest technology. The company structures deals that allow businesses to outsource employment staffing needs, payroll processing and benefits administration as well as offering excellent services, and Matt's role centres on creating technology solutions that streamline these complex processes.

Managing so many employees can be incredibly challenging, with all manner of technological hurdles to vault. By overseeing enterprise automation using platforms such as ServiceNow, Box and Microsoft Azure, Matt has made that task simple, helping companies to integrate all their CRM, ERP, HCM and Operational needs, amongst much more.

"One of the things I love about what I do is I get to help people," Matt reveals. "We create meaningful, actual solutions that help people in their day to day."

As a tech-forward, yet people-centric business, it is natural that Judge’s  approach to AI is all about augmentation, rather than replacement of human workers. As such, Matt is a strong advocate for "human in the middle" implementations, where AI handles routine tasks while experts review outputs and make final decisions.

The company uses Box, a cloud content management platform, for handling unstructured data including millions of documents, PDFs and media, and turning it into meaningful enterprise automation information in the form of usable data to help the enterprise make actionable decisions about its people processes and profits. Box's AI capabilities allow the Judge Group to conduct metadata extraction and intelligent document analysis, while the system can also review requests for proposals and automatically extract key information such as contract start dates, client names and jurisdictions.

"Contract review can go from two to six hours down to 20 minutes," Matt explains. However, he stresses that subject matter experts must still review AI outputs. "To just blindly trust AI at this point is not prudent."