Emerging Markets

Mr. Eddy is a founding partner of Emerging Markets Group Holding and its first operating business, Emerging Markets Consulting (EMC) for which he has had responsibility for the firm’s corporate and business development, financing and expansion strategy.  During his time in this role, the firm launched in-country operations in Laos, established its current holding company structure in Singapore and raised additional growth capital from international investors.

Within EMC, Mr. Eddy has led and contributed to a number of projects and currently acts as an advisor on much of the firm’s work. He has led the analysis on market entry strategy and project feasibility studies in the Cambodian healthcare and telecoms sectors and continues to provide framework analytical inputs on EMC’s business consulting projects.

In the private sector development arena, he has been engaged as an individual advisor on UNDP’s private sector strategy for Cambodia and worked on trade facilitation reform strategy as input to the first World Bank Investment Climate Assessment for Cambodia and subsequent mapping and diagnostic exercises.  More recently he has led EMC’s work in understanding foreign investor perceptions of Cambodia and overseen provincial level investment promotion work with USAID’s Cambodia MSME program.

Prior to establishing EMC, Mr. Eddy was Managing Director of Phnom Penh-based Strategic Management Solutions, where he was responsible for strategy, business development, recruitment and project execution across the breadth of the business’ activities - these spanned traditional business consulting, human resource development and market research activities.

Before moving to Cambodia, Mr. Eddy’s consulting work at Bain & Company covered engagements in Australia, South Africa and London where he served clients in the airline, telecommunications, financial services, defence and government sectors, among others. His client experience  at Bain included private equity due diligence in the direct mail and printing ink businesses, acquisition analysis for a specialty chemicals firm and revenue density modeling for an Australian telco.

Mr. Eddy holds a MA in Economics from Cambridge University, and an MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from London School of Economics. He holds an Australian Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training.  He is an Australian national and has resided and consulted in Cambodia for over a decade.

Building upon his consulting experience, Mr. Eddy’s emphasis at EMI will be helping the Fund’s portfolio companies develop long-term value creation strategy.