ENABLING your success

About

Pitchstone Consulting is a mission-aligned strategy partner that helps your business bridge the Sustainability Gap.

We support the enablers of our future economy defend against global shocks and increase their value, with strategic sustainability & ESG solutions that deliver impactful, resilient and enabled business.

Values

Trust

Clear direction during times of complexity and ambiguity.

Focus

When the background noise is loud, we keep sight of the bigger picture.

Pragmatism

Realistic with outcomes, with commercially-grounded pragmatic solutions.

Leadership

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Matt Farnsworth

Founder | Director

Welcome to Pitchstone Consulting. For close to thirty years I’ve been a sustainability & ESG leader, strategic advisor, technical expert and solution finder to large and small companies and investors.

Having seen how sustainability and ESG issues have developed over this time, across geographies and multiple sectors, the challenge has always been clear – how to build business that is impactful, yet resilient to disruptive shocks, competitive risks, and evolving investor – customer demands.

In founding Pitchstone Consulting, our values are centred around:
 

  • Trust
  • Focus
  • Pragmatism

 
It’s my experience working within start-ups, SMEs and large organisations, where the sustainability function was either new to the company or the path forward was ambiguous, coupled with consultancy experience at the lending, due diligence and investing interface that’s valuable to companies and organisations.

Having successfully navigated the difficulties and pain-points first-hand, this ‘lived’ experience is something larger consultancies cannot easily provide.

When we work together, this senior-strategic experience and deep technical expertise becomes a trusted extension of your team.

  • Sustainability & ESG Strategist
  • Experienced Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO)
  • >200 EHS / ESG Due Diligence Projects for PE / VC
  • >1,500 ESG Risk Reviews for Lenders
  • Experienced Public Speaker, Event Host, Trainer, Chair
  • Published in The Times Newspaper, Accountancy Age, HR Magazine and Real Deals Magazine
  • BSc (Hons) & MSc in Natural & Environmental Science Subjects
  • Fellow of ISEP (FISEP)
  • Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv)
  • ISEP Registered Principal Environmental Auditor
  • CFA Certificate in Sustainable Investing
  • CFA Climate & Investing Certificate
  • Agriculture
  • Built Environment
  • Business Services
  • Consumer Goods
  • Electronics
  • Energy
  • Engineering
  • Extractives
  • Financial
  • Food & Drink
  • Industrials
  • Infrastructure
  • Manufacturing
  • Natural Resources
  • Property
  • Retail & Commercial
  • Technology & Comms
  • Utilities
  • Waste

During my career, I have had the pleasure of working with hundreds of SMEs, mid-cap companies and organisations, alongside lenders and investors.

Selected examples include:

Finance & Investment

  • ADM Capital
  • Alpha Real Capital
  • Anchorage Capital
  • Bank of Scotland
  • Barclays
  • Capita Trust
  • EBRD
  • Epiris
  • Exponent
  • Halifax
  • I Squared Capital
  • JP Morgan
  • Lehman Brothers
  • Littlejohn & Co
  • Lloyds Banking Group
  • Macquarie
  • Milestone Capital
  • Morgan Stanley
  • Northwood Investors
  • Odyssey
  • Palladium
  • Plastics Capital
  • PPC Partners
  • Rabobank
  • Royal Bank of Scotland
  • Scottish Widows
  • Sentinel Capital
  • State Street
  • TDR Capital
  • Tilstone
  • Wynnchurch Capital

Retail

  • Aldi
  • Asda
  • Costco
  • Dobbies
  • EG Group (Euro Garages)
  • Marks & Spencer
  • Morrisons
  • Sainsbury’s
  • Tesco
  • Waitrose