We welcome conversations with environmental businesses considering their next stage of growth, investment or succession.
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What we do
Zygium supports independent businesses that care for the natural world.
We work with businesses across the environmental sector in specialist consulting areas, in-field assessment and a wide range of supporting and ancillary technologies. We encourage collegiality whilst preserving independence.
We help businesses strengthen their foundations, pursue new opportunities, explore synergies and new horizons while embracing the identity, character and capabilities that has made that business what it is.
Zygium brings together specialist businesses with deep knowledge of the natural world and the environments in which people live and work.
Each business continues to operate with its own identity, people and professional focus.
Zygium takes its name from Syzygium, the botanical genus that includes the Australian lilly pilly.
The name speaks to a living system: resilient, interconnected and shaped by the environment around it, adapting over time.
Specialist businesses across the environmental sector:
The strongest businesses are built by people who know their work, their clients and their communities deeply.
How we work
The strongest businesses are built by people who know their work, their clients and their communities deeply.
Zygium provides support around the business without taking over the business. We stay close enough to be useful and far enough away to respect the judgement of the people leading it.
What we protect
Each business keeps its identity, its people and its way of working.
We think beyond the next financial year and make decisions with the longer view in mind.
The people closest to the work remain closest to the decisions.
People
Zygium is led by people who understand the responsibility of building, operating and handing on good businesses.
Simon is a senior business and technology leader with experience across FMCG, logistics, mining, IT and arboriculture.
He is a Director of Arboriculture Australia and the author of the second editions of MIS501 Tree Risk Assessment and MIS506 Tree Valuation, as well as the AANZAA-Risk and AANZAA-Value methods.
simon.strauss@zygium.com.au
Gary is an experienced business leader whose career spans agriculture, viticulture and manufacturing.
His senior management background brings commercial discipline, practical judgement and a balanced view across business operations.
gary.bell@zygium.com.auWhy Zygium exists
Zygium was formed to support businesses whose work has lasting value.
Our role is to help strengthen the foundations, consider new possibilities and make thoughtful decisions about the future, while leaving day to day leadership with the people who know the business best.
Contact
The first conversation is simply a chance to understand where you are and whether Zygium could be part of your future.