ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

Expertise: HR & Industrial Relations.

Locations: Global (Switzerland based).

Gareth is highly experienced in international Human Resources and Industrial Relations management across multiple industries including Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals and Oil and Gas. With career initiated in Automobile Manufacturing with Ford Motor company, Gareth made his mark in managing shop-floor Industrial Relations within an extremely challenging socio-political environment. Gareth subsequently joined DeBeers Consolidated Diamond Mines Ltd at the DeBeers Finch Mine in South Africa and was responsible for the development of an Industrial Relations Framework and setting up the future relationship with the National Union of Mineworkers. After several years managing Industrial Relations operations Gareth moved to the Consolidated Diamond Mines in Namibia where he managed the Human Resource operations function which included managing the union relationship with the Mineworkers Union of Namibia.
Since relocating from Southern Africa, Gareth has achieved widespread Human Resources, Industrial Relations and Commercial management experience at a senior level in the United Kingdom, The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, USA, Switzerland and across the EMEA Region.
Gareth has recently advised on Industrial Relations and the management of Industrial Relations Risk to the Trans Adriatic Pipeline project, a multi-billion Euro gas pipeline construction project across Greece, Albania and southern Italy.