An international consultant on asset based finance, secured transactions, factoring, value chain finance and SME sector development.  Simon has advisory projects with Asian Development Bank and IFC in developing markets including Papua New Guinea, Tonga, India, Central Asia, Mongolia and Cambodia.

Simon was previously CEO of Lock Finance, a niche factoring and supply chain financier based in Auckland, New Zealand. He has owned and operated SME businesses and has a strong passion about increasing access to finance for all levels of SMEs.

Simon’s recent projects include a value chain finance project for vanilla farmers in Tonga, workshops with Cambodian bankers on movables finance products, a dairy value chain finance project in Kyrgyzstan, capacity development work in the Pacific Islands, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan, plus an ongoing project working with the Indian Central Collateral Registry to enhance factoring and asset based finance activity.

Simon holds a B Com from the University of Canterbury and holds additional qualifications in Credit Risk management, Franchising and Securities. He is the author of “Supply Chain Finance in Asia – Trends and Key Challenges”, published in the ADB SME Finance Monitor 2014 and a recent ADB project on agricultural finance in Tonga was featured in the Wall Street Journal.