Veteran Deloitte companion Michael Rath has joined Nous Group’s rising vitality & decarbonisation workforce as a senior advisor, having beforehand spent over two and a half a long time on the Large 4 agency.
Michael Rath joins Nous Group in Melbourne following a interval as an unbiased marketing consultant, earlier than which he served as Asia Pacific lead companion for energy, utilities & renewables as considered one of many senior roles throughout his 26-year profession at Deloitte.
In his new function, Rath might be liable for main and delivering future-shaping initiatives with private and non-private sector purchasers, working alongside the vitality & decarbonisation apply’s ten-strong workforce of principals and administrators.
“Michael has labored on a few of the most substantial vitality points throughout Australia and the APAC area during the last two and a half a long time,” mentioned Nous Group managing principal Tim Orton, who additionally heads the vitality section. “We’re delighted he’s bringing his depth of experience to Nous as we proceed to develop our workforce and our impression at this pivotal time within the vitality transition.”
After becoming a member of Deloitte as a enterprise consulting director in 1998 and changing into a companion 5 years later, Rath served in a string of senior positions, together with most lately as nationwide lead companion for industrial merchandise & development. Beforehand, he had overseen each vitality & assets and energy, utilities & renewables, and was the agency’s lead companion for ‘way forward for vitality & strategic progress.’
“I’m thrilled to be becoming a member of at a time when the engagement of key stakeholders, communities, and prospects is essential to the acceleration and supply of key initiatives and the transition to a net-zero carbon surroundings,” Rath said, citing Nous’ robust monitor report working with varied business suppliers together with authorities on “a few of the largest challenges in vitality coverage and regulation.”
The agency’s vitality & decarbonisation apply – which is led by principals Simon Guttmann, Claire Noone, and Anita Sarris – works with purchasers throughout the sector together with turbines, community operators, retailers, and regulators in areas similar to technique, organisational design, capacity-building, engagement, and coverage, in addition to with organisations searching for to chop emissions.
Bringing intensive expertise in enterprise technique and redesign, Rath may also turn out to be a member of Nous Group’s Vitality Advisory Council, which additional consists of Richard Bolt, who joined the agency as a principal in early 2020, and fellow business consultants Paul Kenny and Charles Popple, the latter who till lately served as commissioner of the Australian Vitality Market Fee.
Writing beforehand within the AFR, Rath said; “Embracing a low carbon economic system shouldn’t be seen as a risk however as a possibility to organize Australia for the riches that can circulate from the sustainability revolution. As an vitality nation, Australia is uniquely poised to leverage this nationwide endowment to create and speed up new industries, companies, and export alternatives.”
