Simon has over 30 years’ experience creating, investing in, building & advising businesses, from start-ups to multi-billion dollar listed groups.
He focuses on working with entrepreneurs and businesses with technologies, products, or services that have the potential to create a more sustainable, just world for current and future generations.
His current focus is on creating the financing tools, structures and financial products to enable investors to put more money into sustainable businesses, especially those with solutions that can be used in Emerging Markets. This includes both traditional (equity, debt, mezz, concessionary, grants, funds, capital markets) and new financing tools (tokens, digital assets, crypto, nft, defi).
He is co-founder of a global technology accelerator for commercializing technology businesses which improve societies.
He has been active in the sustainability sector since the 1980’s, with experience across a wide range of industry sectors, geographies, structures, and stage of development.
He is a regular speaker at events worldwide on sustainability, geopolitics and economics, investment and Emerging Markets.
Simon started out in the UK, and has since lived and worked in Africa, Europe, North America, the Middle East, Central Asia, SE Asia, Greater China and Latin America. He is currently based in the US.
Simon is a UK qualified Chartered Accountant (CPA equivalent) and has a BA and MA in law from the University of Oxford.
