As the Senior Manager for Membership Engagement and Innovation at CANEGROWERS, Matt’s key areas include industry engagement, sustainable sugar and innovation including blockchain technology and behavioural science.

Matt has an Environmental Science background and a broad base of experience within the biotechnology, environmental, agricultural and communications sectors.

Matt’s early years were spent on water quality and vegetation management in Western Australia. He moved to Queensland in 2004 and has been working within the biotech and agricultural industries on challenging projects that included the registration of new products with the APVMA, the commercialisation of natural insecticides, and the complexities of biofuels, GM crops, and infrastructure within the Australian grains industry.

"It’s easy to find the problems – it takes hard work to find the answers and sheer determination to make them work!"