Mike has made a name for himself as an adventurer, most notably earning two Guinness World Records skippering a three-man rowboat over 3,200 miles across the Atlantic! Mike's love of ocean adventure began at the US Naval Academy, where he first learned how to sail as a crew member of a Navy 44' MKI visiting ports along the US Eastern Seaboard. Mike was also a member of the Men's Heavyweight Crew team, the Trap & Skeet team, and completed two marathons. After leaving the Navy, Mike returned home to Houston and became a volunteer firefighter/emergency medical technician in the City of Stafford while simultaneously earning a doctorate in Chemistry from Rice University.  As a new tenure-track professor at the University of Houston-Downtown, Mike authored the iconic, yellow-covered Inorganic Chemistry for Dummies and began interfacing with the local Houston energy industry while helping students with job placements.

After realizing the significant challenges facing both climate and energy, Mike became a licensed petroleum engineer working on CO2-enhanced oil recovery (CO2-EOR) projects in West Texas with both KinderMorgan CO2 and Occidental Low Carbon Ventures. Using experiences from drilling and reservoir engineering, Mike then joined a Denver-based start-up, Carbon America, as their VP of Subsurface and VP of Projects, helping design and implement full-scale Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) projects that captured value from the US 45Q and various Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) programs.

Mike Matson is now an Associate Director with an emphasis on CCUS at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a global leader in climate change and sustainability consulting. Mike assists clients exploring the business of CCUS across four main topic areas: strategic development, market & asset identification, project development & execution, and commercial readiness & mobilization of CCUS.

Outside of work, you can find Mike with his wife Samantha, whom he first met in 7th grade, their two happy and healthy children, Morgan & Cooper, and rescue Labrador, Rocky. When not at his desk, Mike is likely hiking 14’ers in the summer, skiing in the winter, or found weight lifting at CrossFit Live Oak in Montrose (TX) with his best-friend Brian or at Coal Creek CrossFit in Superior (CO).