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Pure-play sustainability consulting agency Anthesis tapped Matthew Bell, a long-time EY companies government and former U.Ok. authorities local weather coverage lead, to succeed co-founder Stuart McLachlan as CEO.
The appointment is efficient Dec. 1.
Bell, an 18-year EY veteran, most not too long ago led the accounting agency’s local weather change and sustainability follow, which incorporates greater than 4,300 specialists. He’s at the moment chair of the World Inexperienced Constructing Council, a community of 75 regional organizations targeted on decarbonizing actual property and building. He joined Anthesis due to its unique concentrate on accelerating local weather motion.
“Anthesis has the DNA of a consultancy, an impression enterprise and a know-how firm rolled into one,” Bell instructed Trellis. “Add to that its unimaginable design artistic functionality and also you’ve bought all of the components to generate impression at scale.”
The agency, based in 2013, has greater than 4,000 purchasers in 80 international locations, together with Cisco, Nestle, Reckitt, Goal and Tesco. Below McLachlan, who will stay on the board of administrators, it has grown to 1,400 staff worldwide — partly as a result of acquisition of 24 companies over the previous 12 years.
“Matthew is the precise chief to construct on our sturdy momentum and information Anthesis via its subsequent stage of progress, bringing his deep business experience and a confirmed capability to construct high-performing world groups,” stated McLachlan.
Bell’s first precedence is to determine locations the place Anthesis can construct on present greatest practices. “We’re already working at unimaginable depth throughout sectors, so the query now could be: How will we join that experience globally, amplify our information and digital capabilities and make sustainability transformation simpler for each shopper to execute?” he stated.

