Matt Pelton is an Audit & Assurance Managing Director at Deloitte & Touche LLP. He is a CPA licensed in the State of Illinois, holds a certificate in ESG investing from the CFA Institute, and earned an executive certificate in advancing sustainability from NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business.

Building upon a foundation in standard setting, technical accounting, financial reporting, and transaction advisory, Matt leads teams on ESG reporting and readiness activities related to stakeholder engagement, investor communications, ESG strategy and regulatory reporting. His goal is to simplify a complex ESG ecosystem to advise companies on ways to prepare for imminent, assurance-ready reporting in a way that allows the client to unlock strategic opportunities aligned to their financial, impact, and growth goals.

Matt has significant experience with both public and private companies, including multinationals with global operations, advising cross-functional teams in several industries, such as technology, telecom, consumer, healthcare, industrial products, energy, and financial services. His primary areas of focus include regulatory readiness, governance and transformation; climate risk and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reporting; materiality assessments and other ESG strategy and communications activities.