THE PEOPLE BEHIND CANOPY
About Canopy
Experienced people who care about the work
Canopy is an independent sustainability consultancy. We work with businesses that want to do more for people and the planet, and need thoughtful, practical help to get there. We bring together experienced advisors and specialist colleagues around the work. Some projects need a fresh perspective and a few good conversations. Others need detailed analysis or someone to stay alongside a team while the changes take shape.
Why Canopy
Good things happen when people bring their knowledge and ideas together. That is the thinking behind Canopy: a place where clients, colleagues and partners work on shared challenges and help each other make progress.
We grow business value
Sustainability should help your business work better. We connect the work to your products, your people and the decisions that shape your future.
We turn strategy into action
We want the work to lead somewhere. We help people understand what needs to change and take the next steps.
We build the canopy
We bring people together and make room for different perspectives. The best ideas often come from working through a challenge together.
We keep things grounded
We speak plainly, use evidence and stay honest about what is possible. We care about making the advice useful.
Meet the team
Our work brings together people with experience in strategy, engagement, reporting and delivery. We put the team together around what the project needs, so you get to know the people helping you.
Matt Loose — Chief Executive and Founder
Matt helps people make the decisions that move sustainability forward.
Different sectors. Common ground.
He founded Canopy to bring experienced advice and close, personal support to businesses ready to make change happen. His experience spans food, finance, retail, materials, energy and technology, alongside industry collaborations that bring businesses together to tackle shared challenges.
Making sense. Making progress.
Matt brings a broad view of sustainability and a practical understanding of how businesses work. He helps teams find their priorities, make sense of difficult choices and build plans they can put into practice — from shaping a strategy to engaging suppliers or bringing colleagues together around a shared ambition.
Change happens through people.
He stays close to the work and the people doing it: asking thoughtful questions, making space for honest conversations and helping teams build the confidence to act.
Ellie Austin
Shaping strategy. Inspiring action.
Ellie helps businesses strengthen their sustainability impact and communicate it with clarity and confidence. She brings fourteen years of strategy and communications experience, alongside deep connections to the B Corp community.
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Ellie helps businesses strengthen their sustainability impact and communicate it with clarity and confidence. She brings fourteen years of strategy and communications experience, working with major brands across the UK and Europe to embed positive change and engage the audiences who matter.
Her background spans KPMG, SustainAbility and other agencies, alongside campaigning and environmental policy work in international charities. She combines a broad understanding of corporate sustainability with the ability to find the story in complex issues. Her writing includes corporate sustainability reports and research on transparency, reporting trends, climate change and human rights.
An experienced B Corp consultant, Ellie brings deep connections to the B Corp community and helps businesses put their commitments into practice. She also advocates for Business Declares, a network of business leaders and companies calling for action on the climate emergency.
Justin DeKoszmovszky
Strategy with people at its heart.
Justin connects strategy and innovation with better outcomes for people and the environment. He brings over 25 years’ experience helping businesses and social enterprises turn ambition into measurable impact.
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Justin helps organisations turn social impact ambitions into changes that matter. With over 25 years’ experience across strategy, innovation and sustainability, he works with multinational businesses and social enterprises to find opportunities, make clear choices and put their plans into practice.He began his career in strategy consulting at Kaiser Associates before leading sustainability strategy at SC Johnson, PUMA and OVO Energy. His hands-on experience includes circular take-back programmes and co-creating an inclusive sanitation enterprise, connecting business innovation with better outcomes for people and the environment.Justin brings rigour, humour and fresh thinking to help teams challenge assumptions and deliver measurable impact. He is a Senior Associate at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, a founding member of the League of Intrapreneurs, and holds a degree and MBA from Cornell University.
Matt Fishwick
Technical depth. Trusted results.
Matt helps businesses understand the environmental impacts of their products, operations and supply chains. He brings over twenty years’ experience in life cycle assessment, environmental product declarations and carbon footprinting, alongside independent assurance and critical reviews.
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Matt helps businesses understand the environmental impacts of their products, operations and supply chains. An environmental scientist and specialist consultant, he brings deep expertise in life cycle assessment, environmental product declarations, carbon footprinting and whole life carbon, providing evidence to guide better decisions.
With over twenty years’ project experience, his work spans chemicals, construction, food and drink, finance, and oil and gas. Alongside consultancy, Matt provides independent assurance and critical reviews. He is approved to verify environmental product declarations under the International EPD System and IBU programmes, checking that product impact information is robust and meets the required standards.
Matt combines scientific rigour with a detailed understanding of environmental accounting standards. He contributed to the development of PAS 2050 and the GHG Protocol, and helped write PAS 2050 guidance. He holds a PhD in environmental chemistry and is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Jody Halstead
Circular thinking. Practical change.
Jody helps businesses rethink resources, create value and put sustainability into practice. She brings circular economy and business strategy expertise, with particular depth in food industry sustainability.
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Jody helps businesses rethink how they use resources, create value and put sustainability into practice. A circular economy and business strategy specialist, she brings over a decade of experience in innovation, research and system design, with particular depth in food industry sustainability.
Her experience includes working at IDEO on the Circular Design Guide and in-house at the Jamie Oliver Group. As Senior Commercial Manager at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, she helped businesses across sectors understand their circular opportunities and build the capabilities to act. At Canopy, she supports a broad range of client projects.
Jody combines thorough research with a practical understanding of business. She holds an MSc in Business Strategy and Environment and founded Loop It Local, applying repair, reuse and local value creation to bring circular thinking into everyday action.
Dan Hinton
Clear thinking. Honest design.
Dan brings strategic thinking and creative craft together to make purpose visible. Through Pixelfish, he helps organisations shape their positioning, visual identities and sustainable websites.
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Dan helps organisations get clear about who they are and express it with confidence. His work starts with positioning and messaging, building the foundations for visual identities and websites that reflect what a business stands for. He brings strategic thinking and creative craft together to make purpose visible.
Through Pixelfish, his Bristol-based brand and sustainable web design studio, he has been working closely with clients since 2009. He takes time to understand their people, their world and what they need, bringing care to every stage—from the first conversation to design, website development and ongoing support.
Pixelfish’s work has earned multiple awards from Awwwards, FWA and CSS Design Awards. For Dan, strong relationships are central to strong design: listening carefully, asking thoughtful questions and creating work that feels true to the organisation behind it.
Sarah Holloway
Clear direction. Lasting impact.
Sarah brings clarity to complex choices and momentum to ambitious plans. A B Lab-trained B Corp Consultant, she helps businesses shape strategies they can act on and navigate certification.
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Sarah helps teams turn good intentions into strategies they can act on. Working alongside clients as a thought partner, she brings clarity to complex choices, structure to ambitious plans and momentum to making change happen. A B Corp Consultant trained by B Lab, she guides businesses from exploring certification to navigating the new standards.She understands sustainability from both sides of the table: in-house at Unilever, Tesco and TUI, and as a director at Futerra and Kin&Co. Her experience spans global brands and pioneering B Corps, including L’Oréal, Danone, M&S, Interface, Formula E and Lintbells.Sarah is the author of Networks for Sustainability and co-founder of her local repair café—bringing people together to make things last.
Chloe McCloskey
Making the numbers count.
Chloe turns sustainability data into clear priorities and action. Her expertise in carbon accounting, science-based targets and decarbonisation helps teams identify where they can make the greatest difference.
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Chloe turns complex sustainability data into clear priorities and practical action. Her expertise spans greenhouse gas accounting, carbon footprinting and science-based targets. She leads Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions inventories and helps businesses build credible decarbonisation plans, identifying where action will make the greatest difference.She combines rigorous analysis with an understanding of implementation, helping teams strengthen data quality, reporting and engagement. Her wider work spans life cycle assessment, materiality, climate risk and responsible sourcing, connecting emissions with broader value-chain impacts.Chloe brings over a decade of consulting experience across food and drink, retail, apparel, manufacturing and telecommunications. Her background in mathematics and environmental impact assessment helps her make complex findings clear.
Clear advice.
Strong relationships.
Sustainability that becomes part of how a business makes decisions, develops products and services, and grows.
Our partners
Specialist expertise. Shared purpose.
We work with trusted partners to bring the right expertise around each challenge, building a team around what our clients need.
What are you working on?
Tell us where you want to get to, or what you’re finding difficult. We’d be glad to talk it through.