The Sharp Day Team
We are planners, designers, ecologists, strategists, and collaborators. We’ve worked across Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and beyond.
Together, we bring decades of experience delivering new towns, urban extensions, regeneration strategies, and environmental frameworks—all reimagined through a nature-positive lens.
Nigel Sharp
| Co-Founder
Nigel Sharp is one of Australia’s leading innovators of biodiversity conservation. He is an environmental impact investor, conservationist, and business innovator. Nigel builds and invests in “nature-first” businesses, which have a tangible, positive impact on nature and the community, while remaining profitable, successful companies. He is passionate about empowering all businesses to embrace biodiversity in new ways, and this dedication has led him to the leading edge of biodiversity impact investment.
Mike Day
| Co-Founder and Director
Mike Day was a co-founder of Roberts Day for 30 years and more recently a partner at HATCH | Urban Solutions, where he helped shape award-winning new towns and urban renewal projects across Australia, New Zealand, the UAE and Asia. Best known as the principal master planner of Ellenbrook New Town, Mike has also led the master planning of the CLARA High-Speed Rail and new city strategy business case for the Australian Federal Government, and has served on planning authority boards and industry committees in both Western Australia and Victoria. A Fellow of the Planning Institute of Australia and the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Mike was also the 2018 recipient of the Place Leaders Asia Pacific Award for Leadership in Walkable Urbanism, and remains passionate about creating places that are more walkable, more liveable, and more nature-positive for future generations.
Matt Singleton
| Manager-Advisory
Matt’s lifelong passion for the natural world drives his work in nature-based solutions and environmental impact investment. He has extensive experience in conservation finance, landscape restoration, and biodiversity enhancement through the Odonata Foundation.
At the Tiverton Agriculture Impact Fund, Matt focuses on identifying impact opportunities, transparent reporting, and harnessing emerging environmental markets to deliver measurable ecological and commercial outcomes.