About Emerging Market Enterprises

What We Do

At EME we work with clients who are driven by passion for community and global impact. Our services and support to clients include:

  • Ideation & Customer Discovery: Using a blend of lean approaches, we help clients learn more about their customer & stakeholder needs and develop a viable business model

  • Go-To-Market Planning & Market Evaluation: We provide rapid and actionable go-to-market planning, building on our extensive experience and in-depth market evaluation  

  • Financial Modeling & Accessing Capital: We help our clients build sustainable financial models that drive effective decision-making and planning, and we support them as they evaluate options to fund their growth and become investment ready

Our People 

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Greg Payne is the President and Principal Consultant at Emerging Market Enterprises (EME). At EME, Greg supports social enterprises, minority-owned businesses, and ecosystem builders in the US and Latin America as these organizations face challenges related to customer discovery, product/service development, market entry, and access to financing. Greg has over fifteen years of consulting and operational experience in the private, public, and non-profit sectors, and is experienced in the fields of strategy, market evaluation, change management, and impact investing. Greg holds an MBA with a concentration in Finance and Social Entrepreneurship from Duke University, graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Anthropology from the University of Virginia, and is fluent in Spanish. Connect with him on LinkedIn.