Matthew Downs
Director of Business Development
Matt Downs is a commercial leader with more than 25 years of experience helping industrial organizations achieve sustainable growth through strategic business development, engineering collaboration, and disciplined commercial execution.
Drawing on a foundation in engineering, technical sales, and EPC project delivery, Matt partners with industrial owners to align business objectives with engineering solutions that create measurable business value throughout the capital project lifecycle.
Throughout his career, Matt has supported customers across the refining, petrochemical, LNG, power generation, manufacturing, and upstream, midstream, and downstream oil and gas industries. His experience includes commercial leadership, strategic account development, market expansion, customer engagement, and helping organizations identify and develop complex capital project opportunities. He has also contributed to multiple startup organizations, led strategic growth initiatives, and helped introduce innovative technologies into industrial markets.
As Director of Business Development for GATE Energy's Project Delivery organization, Matt leads strategic business development initiatives across refining, petrochemical, LNG, power, and industrial markets. He works closely with industrial owners to identify front-end project opportunities, develop long-term customer relationships, and align GATE's engineering and project delivery capabilities with customer business objectives. His focus is on creating value early in the project lifecycle by helping customers develop successful projects before execution begins.
Matt's leadership philosophy is grounded in trust, systems thinking, and disciplined execution. He believes sustainable growth is achieved by understanding customer challenges, building strong relationships, empowering people, and developing organizational systems that consistently deliver measurable business value.
Matt is currently pursuing a Doctor of Business Administration at Texas State University, where his research focuses on Organizational Systems Performance and Sustainable Growth. He earned an MBA in Leadership from the Jack Welch Management Institute and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Management and Applied Engineering Technology from Texas A&M University–Kingsville. His professional development also includes studies in Business Analytics through Texas Tech University and Six Sigma Black Belt training.
Matt believes sustainable growth begins with understanding the customer, aligning strategy with disciplined execution, and leaving every organization stronger than he found it.
Phone: 281.870.8455
GATE Energy delivers full-scope design and construction support. Our engineering teams work seamlessly across disciplines to ensure technical excellence, constructability, and alignment with project objectives from concept through execution.
GATE Energy’s process engineering team supports every phase of project development—from early feasibility to commissioning and initial startup. We apply a fit-for-purpose approach to deliver practical, data-driven solutions that align with your facility’s operational and business goals.
GATE Energy’s process engineering team supports every phase of project development—from early feasibility to commissioning and initial startup. We apply a fit-for-purpose approach to deliver practical, data-driven solutions that align with your facility’s operational and business goals.
Our E&I team delivers complete project lifecycle support for both large-scale processing facilities and remote installations. We focus on system reliability, operational safety, and integration with facility-wide controls.
GATE Energy provides comprehensive fire protection system design, analysis, and commissioning for industrial facilities. Our solutions are tailored to high-hazard environments, ensuring compliance, safety, and operational continuity.
GATE Energy's operations and maintenance planning services help facilities move seamlessly from construction to long-term, reliable operation. We deliver the documentation, training, and strategies your team needs to maximize performance and minimize unplanned downtime.
GATE Energy provides PSM solutions to support risk mitigation, regulatory compliance, and operational integrity in high-risk environments. Our approach aligns with OSHA and global safety standards.
GATE Energy helps industrial facilities and energy developers navigate the evolving landscape of environmental permitting and regulatory compliance. From air and water permits to low-carbon pathway certifications, we provide the expertise to keep your project compliant, competitive, and on track.
GATE Energy designs storage and export systems for facilities handling everything from renewable diesel and SAF to hydrogen, ammonia, and cryogenic products. The work spans tank farms, loading racks, pipeline infrastructure, and the utility systems that tie it all together—and the details matter at every step.
GATE Energy offers exceptional support in our client’s efforts that require research, process planning, and budget forecasting to properly analyze project opportunities. Our specialized team can assist with these efforts at the earliest stages of project development.
GATE Energy delivers modular solutions that reduce schedule, footprint, and cost. We provide complete project lifecycle support for modular crude-processing units, gas plants, and reformers. We tailor each system to meet site-specific requirements, managing the technical and logistical complexities that modular execution demands.
GATE Energy helps clients unlock more value from existing assets by supporting both greenfield and brownfield projects. We specialize in process optimization, capacity debottlenecking, and evaluating opportunities to repurpose legacy equipment into new or modified processes—enhancing performance while minimizing capital spend.
GATE Energy bridges the gap between legacy systems and modern technologies. With broad multidisciplinary expertise, we integrate new processes, equipment, and digital tools into oil and gas, refining, and petrochemical operations, helping clients modernize safely, efficiently, and with minimal disruption to ongoing operations.
GATE Energy provides construction management (CM) services to ensure seamless transition from construction completion to operational readiness. Our approach emphasizes safety, system integrity, and schedule certainty—minimizing handover gaps and reducing time to first production.
GATE Subsea IHUC activities include the pigging, testing, hook-up (static / dynamic) and commissioning of flowline / riser and controls systems from topsides to shore. As such, IHUC activities have multiple complex engineering, scheduling, ownership and scope interfaces between Well Engineering, Topsides and Subsea Facilities Design and the Operator.
GATE has expertise in facility design, planning and execution of commissioning and start-up operations, as well as being able to provide on-site technical support during well unloading and commissioning activities. This enables a rapid response capability to unexpected events and the ability to transfer learnings to our clients.
The GATE Commissioning team brings their extensive offshore oil and gas commissioning experience to the onshore sector.
Planning and commissioning management, Integrity Management, Vendor and Sub-Contractor Selection and Management , Hydrotesting, Preservation (e.g. Corrosion Analysis and Prevention), System Drying and Flow Assurance Modelling.
The planning associated with the operation of Marine Systems should be based on managing exposure to the consequences of mal-operation, in addition to standard marine risk management objectives.
Our world-class DP experts will ensure that your asset is operationally ready to return to drilling.
Viking has the expertise to help operators better understand past well failures and frac performance by working together to develop improved frac designs and execution.
GATE Energy is ready to provide emergency and disaster relief services where needed. Being both a Louisiana and Texas based company, we know all too well the disaster that hurricanes and tropical storms can bring.
