A specialist new ESG & sustainability advisory has launched in Australia – Materra – established by skilled companies umbrella HPX Group and led by former RSM companion Linda Romanovska.
Established in 2018, HPX is the dad or mum of legislation agency Hamilton Locke and a pair of different skilled companies companies, Supply and Helios Salinger, offering built-in authorized, governance, threat, compliance and privateness companies.
An skilled in sustainable finance and ESG compliance and reporting, Romanovska joined RSM as a companion in late 2023 after two years as a director at PwC, earlier than which she served in quite a lot of NGO and public sector management roles.
HPX mentioned the brand new consultancy would supply shoppers with a full vary of ESG-related companies from its Sydney base, together with sustainability technique improvement, evaluation and reporting, ESG governance and threat administration, and investor relations and sustainable finance, together with a set of specialized companies on local weather change, fashionable slavery, and pure capital.
“Working with the Hamilton Locke staff and the group’s different companies, Materra may help shoppers with the authorized and regulatory facet of ESG in addition to their aspirational objectives and implementation,” acknowledged HPX CEO Nick Humphrey. “In the end, we would like them to really feel assured in and comfy with their ESG efficiency, in addition to their means to attain their larger image aspirations.”
Thus far the one particular person connected to Materra as per LinkedIn, Romanovska joins HPX as a companion after spending simply over a 12 months at RSM, with an earlier two-year stint at PwC preceded by greater than a decade as a researcher and advisor to quite a few authorities and non-profit climate-related businesses, together with the European Fee and Australian Sustainable Finance Institute.
Highlights throughout her profession embrace drafting the inaugural local weather resilience insurance policies for the European Union in addition to co-authoring sustainable finance and company sustainability rules and requirements for Australia, the EU, ASEAN and elsewhere. She has additionally supported a big selection of firms from international multinationals to native start-ups on their sustainability and ESG journeys.
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Romanovska notes Materra’s launch as coming at a time when organisations are at the moment confronted with conflicting narratives round ESG; “Good companies will proceed to make it a precedence and a part of their on a regular basis operations: not solely as a result of they’re obligated by means of regulation, however in that it positions them higher in the direction of buyers, shoppers and expertise and helps them keep away from rising dangers.”
Established as Halo previous to its 2022 rebrand, HPX’s has been recognised as amongst Australia’s quickest rising firms on the AFR Quick 100 record for the previous two consecutive years. Previous to the launch of Materra, the agency’s different enterprise traces have been the results of a sequence of acquisitions and amalgamations, together with the decide up of Salinger Privateness in the direction of the top of final 12 months.
Romanovska concludes; “Our goal is to simplify ESG for companies and set them up for fulfillment by being lifelike and pragmatic about their sustainability objectives and putting in methods which might be the proper match. There’s an actual alternative for organisations to take a long-term view of their ESG commitments as important to being each a financially wholesome and environmentally accountable enterprise.”
