Emerging Markets

Trent plays a key role in the consulting business by leading strategic business development efforts, providing thought leadership across sectors and building strategic partnerships.  In his roles on the management team, Trent focuses his energies on company strategy and expansion initiatives. 

Trent has led and contributed to a number of EMC’s 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 inputs on EMC’s business consulting projects.

In the private sector development arena, Trent seeks to adapt classic business consulting methodologies to understand and improve upon the overall investment climate, as well as to inform government policy, development partner programme design and private sector strategy. He has recently been engaged as an individual advisor on UNDP’s forthcoming private sector strategy for Cambodia and worked closely on trade facilitation reform strategy as input to the first World Bank Investment Climate Assessment for Cambodia. A believer in the strategic value of good quality public private dialogue, Trent played an integral role in the recent Public Private Dialogue Impact Assessment for Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam (IFC). Trent is the Business Development Services Provider Manager for the Export Market Access Fund of the Ministry of Commerce (World Bank funded).

Trent has been consulting on business and the private sector in Cambodia since 2000, and in his capacity as Managing Director of Strategic Management Solutions prior to founding EMC Cambodia, 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. Prior to that, Trent’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.

Trent holds a MA in Economics from Cambridge University, and an MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from London School of Economics. He maintains particular interest in the role for services value chains in developing country entrepreneurialism and PSD initiatives. He holds an Australian Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training.  Trent is an Australian national.