We support our clients' shift toward sustainability in two basic ways: firstly by bringing to the table broad and deep expertise. Our people have backgrounds ranging from strategic consulting, to journalism and communications, to environmental and social activism, to financial and business management. Many of them bring 15-20 years of experience to their work.

Secondly by sharing who we are as well as what we know. When clients hire Ecos, they get all of us - our passion, our principles, our unequivocal commitment to help create a world that works. Ecos isn't just a job for us, it's something to which we give our all. We believe in bringing creativity, a sense of fun, and a can-do attitude to everything we do.

partners

Paul Gilding, CEO and Founder

Paul has spent over 30 years working on sustainability issues as an activist, a business leader and a commentator.

From 1975 to 1995, Paul worked as an activist on a range of social and environmental issues, becoming the International Executive Director of Greenpeace in 1992. In 1995, Paul established Ecos Corporation (www.ecoscorporation.com), advising leading corporations on sustainability including DuPont, Ford, Anglo American, ANZ and IAG. In late 2005 Paul also became CEO of Easy Being Green, an Australian company which up until September 2007 used carbon trading to drive mass consumer action on energy efficiency & in doing so cut more than 4.3 million tonnes of CO2. Unfortunately, due to the collapse of the carbon price in the NSW Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme, Easy Being Green went into voluntary administration and has ceased operations.

Paul is a member of the Core Faculty of the Prince of Wales’s Business and the Environment Program run by Cambridge University (www.cpi.cam.ac.uk/bep) and is the founder of it’s Australian program, writes regular columns for The Australian newspaper, is a Founding Director of the internet based youth charity The Inspire Foundation (www.inspire.org.au), is a Director of the Australian Business Community Network and is member of the Foundation Council of the Australian Davos Connection (www.ausdavos.org). He is married with 5 children.

In 1992 the World Economic Forum (WEF) appointed Paul as a Global Leader for Tomorrow, followed in 1993 with an Australia Day Award for Outstanding Achievement for services to the environment. In 1994, he was listed by Time International in its “Time’s Global 100 Young Leaders for the New Millennium” and in 1997, he received the prestigious Tomorrow Magazine Environmental Leadership Award.

Paul can be reached at: paul.gilding@ecoscorp.com

Murray Hogarth, JOINT MANAGING PARTNER

Murray Hogarth is joint managing partner of Ecos Corporation’s management consulting arm, Ecos Strategy. He has been advising business in Australia and internationally on major sustainability issues, including climate change, since he joined Ecos in 1999.

Murray is author of The 3rd Degree: Frontline in Australia’s Climate War, published by Pluto Press in April 2007. His book explores Australia’s climate awakening, and how the nation will fight its greatest challenge from five main perspectives – politics, business, the media, the environment movement and consumerism.

Before joining Ecos, Murray had an award-winning career in print and television journalism. He reported for flagship ABC-TV current affairs programs Four Corners and The 7.30 Report, and with top newspaper mastheads such as The National Times and The Australian, culminating with a spell as Environment Editor at The Sydney Morning Herald.

Murray is a regular speaker, writer and media commentator on climate and sustainability issues. His pro bono roles include membership of the advisory panel for the Total Environment Centre’s Green Capital Program, serving as a longstanding Board member of the Environmental Defenders’ Office of NSW, and advising community action group the Australian Climate Coolers.

Murray can be reached at murray.hogarth@ecoscorp.com