Our team - about

Matthew Warnken, Founder and Chair

Matthew Warnken is Founder and Chair of Corporate Carbon, Australia’s leading cross-sector contractor of carbon abatement projects under the Climate Solutions Fund. Matthew has formal training in natural resource management and gained undergraduate qualifications in Arts and Science from the Australian National University.  He has a Masters of Engineering Research from the University of Sydney, and a business Masters in early stage commercialisation from the University of Adelaide.  

Matthew has been leading teams around start-up projects in resource recovery and renewable energy for the last decade.  From an operational perspective he established an alternative fuel cement kiln pilot plant; while from a carbon markets perspective he has been at the forefront of emissions trading and carbon credit origination in Australia, taking Corporate Carbon from a start up to Australia’s leading carbon markets solution provider. 

Gary Wyatt, Managing Director

Gary Wyatt, Managing Director, joined Corporate Carbon having spent the previous 13 years working in commodities trading for ANZ Banking Group and Rand Merchant Bank.

Gary’s trading experience spans the metals markets (precious and base), petroleum (crude oil and refined products), electricity (Australia and New Zealand) and environmental certificates (Australian, New Zealand and Europe). Most recently, Gary ran ANZ’s Energy Trading desk, where he oversaw their activity in energy and environmental markets.

He is also experienced in finance, having worked in Standard Bank’s structured finance area. He holds a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering and a BSc (Honours) degree in financial mathematics.

Our values

We respect the environment, the science, each other and our clients. We build trust based on authentic connections, transparency, honesty and fairness.

• We show leadership by striving to be the first to deliver high scale, impactful outcomes by being innovative, proactive and visionary.

• We are the people who find the solution, are well informed and set standards of excellence for professionalism, quality of work and ethical conduct.

• We learn from each other, value diversity and get things done together. We work in collaboration with experts, the industry and the community – and have fun at the same time.

• Things change and demonstrating flexibility, we change with it. We act quickly and decisively. We treat each client uniquely and understand commercial realities.

Our credentials

• Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL) No. 430199

• Carbon Market Institute Corporate Member

• Australian Carbon Industry Code of Conduct Foundation Signatory

• Climate Active Certification – Carbon Neutral Organisation

• Carbon Farming Approved Advisers by the QLD Rural and Industry Development Authority.

• Full alignment of the The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals are enabled by our approach.

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