Matt Sprague Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Zurich, Zh, Ch

Legal director for South Pole Australia responsible for ensuring our regional teams are well supported, and empowered to deliver impact for our clients

Zurich, Zh, Ch

Matt drives the APAC Climate Advisory team to growth, technical excellence and impactful financial success. Matt is a passionate energy and decarbonisation professional, currently leading South Poles’ decarbonisation consulting services for our Australian and APAC clients.He is highly focussed on delivering GHG accounting support and decarbonisation pathways to enable clients to work towards their sustainability and net zero ambitions.Matt works with large energy users to understand their current carbon emissions and develop reduction targets in-line with international best practice.

Zurich, Zh, Ch

Matt is a passionate energy and decarbonisation professional, currently leading South Poles’ decarbonisation consulting services for our Australian and APAC clients.He is highly focussed on delivering GHG accounting support and decarbonisation pathways to enable clients to work towards their sustainability and net zero ambitions.Matt works with large energy users to understand their current carbon emissions and develop reduction targets in-line with international best practice.

North Sydney, Nsw, Au

Matt leads Energetics’ multi-disciplinary efficiency and renewable team in Sydney. Delivering a broad range of projects, he is primarily focussed on delivering low-cost renewable energy projects, climate emission baseline calculations and ambitious reduction targets and strategies, and energy productivity improvement projects. Matt provides technical and commercial support to renewable energy projects from the pre-feasibility stage through to procurement and installation. As a trusted advisor to many clients, he provides insight into projects ranging from 50kW to over 10MW. He also works with large energy users to understand their current carbon emissions and develop reduction targets in line with international best practice. With a background in project management, and qualifications in Chemical Engineering and renewable energy, Matt works with clients to assess energy efficiency projects from initial audit and evaluation through delivery to post-implementation measurement and verification. As one of Energetics’ Certified Measurement and Verification Professionals (CMVP), Matt supports clients in creating energy efficiency certificates.

Castle Hill, Nsw, Au

Generated projects where process and system improvements could reduce the energy consumption and carbon emissions of buildings and plant rooms.Continuously engaged with customers on new projects and retro fit designs, and offered systems with long term, transformational solutions.Single contact for all cogeneration and trigeneration proposals and tenders. Negotiated contracts with our ever-growing customer base throughout Australia. Provided front end engineering design for all initial projects including equipment selection, piping and installation design and business case modelling.Led negotiations and development of distributorship agreements with LG Electronics, Korea.Implemented project management gate system and online customer relationship manager (CRM) tools to improve in-departmental communications.

Coventry, England, Gb

Set up and successfully ran the Sales office for Heatric in Sydney. Achieved $3.5million sales in 2014.Offered high performance Heat Exchanger (PCHE) technology to Oil and Gas companies using consultative selling techniques.Developed and implemented sales strategies to advance Heatric’s business in Australia including key account plans for three main customers.Maintained strong, on-going, relationships with customers from continual communication through meetings, telephone conversations and emails. Increased Heatric's customer base by 5 times.Business Development successes included qualifying new suppliers in Perth to expand Heatric’s cleaning business. This increased Heatric’s market share of PCHE cleaning in Australia by 300%.Collaborated with Woodside and ConocoPhillips to develop Service Plans for the on-going support of their PCHE fleet.Presented the technical benefits of Heatric technology to over 30 companies across Australia

Coventry, England, Gb

Led over twenty multinational engineering projects from initial customer contact to final design in worldwide locations such as Qatar, Kuala Lumpur and Milan. This is lead to £16million of equipment sold.Developed complex design solutions to challenging processes working with both engineers and manufacturing to deliver a world class product. Mentored, and supported, junior engineers including regular review and validation of designs, ensuring completion to a high standard. Presented PCHE technology for offshore environments at the Global LNG Technical Summit.

San Ramon, Ca, Us

Implemented new tools to record and monitor recovered oil balances. Collaborated with multi-disciplined teams and coordinated weekly meetings. Quality improvement project saved over 10 hrs work per week. Responsible for the system design required to provide additional storage of bio-diesel. Designed processes to increase the volume of distillate storage on-site. Involved in multiple HAZOPs and risk assessments.

La Jolla, Ca, Us

Selected by the University of Bath and the University of California, San Diego to develop process design for a biofuel process, supporting a pilot plant near Sacramento, Ca. Created an Aspen HYSYS simulation, including multiple sensitivity analyses, to forecast the volumes of alcohols produced from different feedstock Responsible for background research into the processes as well as the model functionality.

Graduate Diploma, Energy And Carbon Studies

Master Of Engineering (M.Eng.), Chemical Engineering