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Better decision-making Better execution

Better decision-making Better execution Better decision-making Better execution Better decision-making Better execution

Fact-based analysis and unique experience 

to drive your success and growth

Better decision-making Better execution

Better decision-making Better execution Better decision-making Better execution Better decision-making Better execution

Fact-based analysis and unique experience 

to drive your success and growth

Who We Are

Our Vision

Our Expertise

Our Expertise

At SAY Consulting, our mission is to enable our clients to better meet their most important challenges, such as a key investment decision, a major growth initiative or the impact of a structural shift in their market 

Our Expertise

Our Expertise

Our Expertise

Our expertise, uniquely gained across strategy consulting, principal investing, line management and investment banking, enables us to see the whole picture, and develop comprehensive yet workable recommendations.

Our Approach

Our Expertise

Our Approach

We take a rigorous, data-driven approach that  enables us to identify and test real trends and opportunities to ensure our recommendations will stand the test of time

Capabilities

Leveraging over 30 years of experience we support clients across a wide range of needs, on projects ranging in duration from hours to months, including:

Transactions

  • Acquirer competency/ M&A playbook development
  • Target mapping
  • Negotiation tactics
  • Buyside commercial due diligence
  • Synergy identification and validation
  • Merger integration planning
  • Synergy realisation/ integration office
  • Separation planning and project management
  • Vendor commercial due diligence

Growth

  • Market assessment and forecasting
  • Competency assessment
  • Medium and long-term strategy
  • Customer value proposition / product development
  • Change management
  • Sales force effectiveness
  • Zero-emission transition/ carbon footprint

Performance

  • Leadership assessment
  • Benchmarking and cost reduction
  • Operating model design
  • Workshop/ offsite design and facilitation
  • Organisational structuring 
  • Stakeholder communications
  • Interim Executive roles
  • NED/ Board observer 

Expertise

Our deep domain expertise, gained through a wide range of operating and advisory roles across Oceania, North America and Europe,  brings genuine insights that enable better decision-making

Financial Services

Consumer banking and finance

Commercial lending 

Asset, equipment and auto finance 

Wealth management/ financial advice

Asset management

Life, health and general insurance

Registry, custody and trust services

Broking

Transport and Infrastructure

Port services/ stevedoring

Logistics/ rail transport

Renewable energy generation

Energy metering

Equipment sales and hire 

Experience

Simon York's experience uniquely spans strategy consulting, principal investing, operational management and investment banking. For over 30 years he has led and advised on transactions, and developed and implemented successful growth strategies.    


For over 5 years he has been a consultant, advising leading Australian companies and financial sponsors on transactions and strategy development, at both SAY Consulting, which he founded in 2019, and as a Partner at L.E.K. Consulting. 


Prior to becoming a consultant, Simon established and led the in-house M&A and strategy team for the Corporate and Asset Finance division of Macquarie Group. Over an 11 year period he originated and completed numerous transactions and new market entries across North America, Europe and Australia, leading to CAF becoming one of Macquarie's largest and most profitable groups.


From 1998-2006 he worked for GE Capital in Europe and Australia, with roles including in-house M&A, strategy, marketing and management, culminating in being CEO of GE Fleet Services in Australia and NZ.


His early career was in investment banking in the US, where he worked for Robertson Stephens (a technology focussed boutique later acquired by Bank of America), and in Australia where he worked for Hambros and BNP Paribas.


Simon has either led or advised on over $25 billion of M&A transactions and equity investments.  


He holds an MBA from INSEAD, and a BCom from UNSW and is a graduate of the AICD. 

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