“If today's organisations want to be around tomorrow, they need to effectively embed the correct governance and risk management systems into their long-term financial decision-making processes; however, if environmental considerations and social obligations have not been considered, these processes will not reflect customer and community expectations, and the organisation's true value will not be achieved. In today's markets, short term non-ESG consideration leads to eventual failure within an organisation's strategy.” Simon Gardner Lee (B.Agr.Sc., M.Agr.Sc.(Eco), Grad.Dip.App.Fin.)I am a strategic business development expert that creates enterprise value through transactional and organic growth, with over 25 years of corporate and consulting experience gained in the essential environmental infrastructure services, energy asset management, and natural (rural) resource management industries of Australia, Western Europe and China.I thrive at the coalface of market penetration, strategic positioning and competitor outmanoeuvring, with a particular emphasis on enterprise value extraction, and embedding financially-sound development platforms into long-term corporate decision-making.Start-ups and emerging organisations are my specialty - creating the effective business systems to grow rapidly into identified or yet-to-be identified markets. However, I have also worked with multiple medium and large organisations to identify unrealised value through re-positioning strategies and implementation plans to achieve increased market share or remain at the leading edge of their market sector.My experience covers: management of corporate strategic development, and associated mitigation of risk; innovation in business development; effective marketing and brand positioning; supportive communication platforms; and, public relations activities. I provide specialist due diligence advice on M&A transactions in the global waste and recycling sectors, as well as the water treatment industry of Australia. I have also worked with international capacity-building institutions such as the World Bank, and in the mid-1990s I focused on building effective business relationships between Australian and Chinese companies within China.