Gareth Davies

Current

Director at AL Fahad & Co (Deloitte)

Past

Senior Manager at Deloitte
Founder and Managing Director at FODA Consulting Limited
Founder and Managing Director at Upside Outcomes

MBA Student, Graduated July 2003 at London Business School
Business Development at Schlumberger

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Education

London Business School
The Robert Gordon University

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Industry

Management Consulting

Gareth Davies’s Summary

Gareth is a Director in consulting, focussing on the Oil and Gas industry in the Gulf. Currently living and working in Kuwait.

Prior to this Gareth worked for Deloitte UK, before which he founded and ran two companies focusing on Salesforce.com software technology, implementation and marketing strategy. He has an MBA from London Business School prior to which held various senior sales, marketing, operations and technology development positions in Schlumberger, while the company was charged with providing web solutions, portal implementations and outsourced data mangement services for oil exploration companies.

His work in the UK, Norway, Azerbaijan and Indonesia enabled him to experience negotiation in multi-cultural settings, the science of major account management and the art of deal making.

Gareth Davies’s Specialties:

Innovation, Sales, Negotiation, Bidding, Oil Exploration Systems, CRM, Internet Technologies, Programming, Presentation, Public Speaking, Training

Gareth Davies’s Experience

Director

AL Fahad & Co (Deloitte)

(Partnership; Management Consulting industry)

October 2009 — Present (3 months)
Senior Manager

Deloitte

(Partnership; Management Consulting industry)

October 2007 — October 2009 (2 years 1 month)

Senior Manager in Customer Relationship Management team, specialisng in the Oil and Gas industry
Founder and Managing Director

FODA Consulting Limited

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

August 2004 — 2007 (3 years )

FODA Consulting provides management consulting in the arena of sales and marketing strategy. It uses proprietary methods for:

* Data collection - quantitative & qualitative
* Decision analysis
* Building and managing sales teams
* Communication & promotion of value propositions
* Customer life-time value models

FODA specialists work with large and medium sized businesses who sell into B2B markets and that have repeat business with SME's.
Founder and Managing Director

Upside Outcomes

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 2002 — October 2007 (5 years 6 months)

Provides software and services to users of Salesforce.com

Upside Outcomes creates software and provides IT services for users of Salesforce.com. It specialises in integrating information from diverse systems, calculating intricate metrics and showing them simply. This means that senior management can see exactly what's going on and ensure they get exactly what they need to see. Specifically for their business. With a single button press.

Visit www.upside-outcomes.com
MBA Student, Graduated July 2003

London Business School

(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

August 2001 — June 2003 (1 year 11 months)

Full Time MBA Student on Two year program.

Specialised in Marketing, Entreprenurship and Service Strategy
Business Development

Schlumberger

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SLB; Oil & Energy industry)

August 1991 — August 2001 (10 years 1 month)

Gareth held a number of positions in General Management, Business Development, Account Management, Sales and Marketing as well as Technical Support and Software Development. He worked for a division createing software used to analyse and manage data to develop oil and gas reservoirs.

Living and working at various times,in UK, Norway, Azerbaijan and Indonesia ,and with assignments in USA, France and Malaysia, he learned to negotiate large contracts with customers and suppliers in different cultural settings.

Largest division responsibility > $30M
Largest contracts sold and negotiated >$3M
Largest number of staff managed > 200.

Gareth Davies’s Education

London Business School

MBA , Service Strategy & Entrepreneurship , August 2001 — June 2003

Activities and Societies:

President Toastmasters Public Speaking Club
The Robert Gordon University

BEng (Hons) 1st , Electronic and Information Engineering , 1987 — 1991