Matthias is a start-up advisor, climate entrepreneur, writer and Founding Partner at OnePointFive and helps drive OnePointFive’s strategic growth and operations, including the commercialization of a newly launched virtual climate expert advisory network that matches the right climate experts to climate problems. He has seven years' experience working across Australia, Japan and the United States in management consulting and entrepreneurship roles, is the current Co-Chair of the Australia Japan Youth Dialogue, supporting emerging leaders in the Australia-Japan relationship, and is a previous WEF contributor writing on ESG investment and innovative climate technology solutions.

Matthias most recently served as Acting Chief Operating Officer at OnePointFive focusing on building the start-up operations of the business, managing the technology MVP build of OnePointFive’s experts platform and managing projects with early-stage climate start-ups – primarily around due diligence, commercialization, market entry and policy support. Prior to this, he served as Director of Finance and Software Development Lead for early-stage company Cambium Carbon helping to deploy circular economy solutions in the urban forestry space, and as a management consultant in operations and M&A strategy at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Australia.

Matthias holds a Master of Advanced Management from Yale School of Management, a Master of Business Administration from Hitotsubashi School of International Corporate Strategy, and degrees in Accounting and Economics from Monash University and University of Melbourne. He is a Chartered Accountant with CAANZ.