Gareth leads CRU’s Consulting team in London, having joined CRU in 2023 as Principal Consultant. He has direct experience of developing and delivering value propositions and supply chains to sell steel products into domestic and global markets. He also has a strong understanding of downstream high value-added products and channels, gained from customer collaboration and ten years working in GKN’s automotive businesses.
Furthermore, Gareth has hands-on experience of development and execution of business development, channel and business transformation strategies as well as change management.
Since joining the CRU Consulting team in 2023, Gareth has worked on many projects in the iron & steel value chain including:
- Lender’s market assessment for a start-up green DRI project
- Lender’s due diligence for a hydrogen DRI project
- Slab sourcing study for finished steel re-roller
- Steel cost model inputs for a department of a European government
- Market analysis of heavy sections and financial evaluation of new heavy section mill
- Metallics market study for an EAF steelmaking business case
- Due diligence for KSA stainless steel tubes producer
- Due diligence for European longs steel producer
- Due diligence for a GCC steel producer
And also worked outside the iron/steel value chain on:
- Mineral opportunity identification study in Middle East
- Aluminium scrap study for GCC producer
- Manganese emissions study
- Manganese market study
Industry experience:
- Before joining CRU Consulting, he held several senior leadership positions within British Steel, Tata Steel Europe and its predecessor companies, including strategy development, sales and marketing and supply chain director roles.
- Gareth has spoken at industry events, such as Eurometal World Steel Distribution Summit and UK Metals Expo sat on various UK Steel and Eurofer product committees and worked with UK governments on public procurement guidelines for steel.
- Gareth also spent over 10 years in commercial roles for Tier 1 automotive supplier GKN in commercial roles serving the automotive, commercial vehicle, off-highway and industrial & marine market segments.
Other past experience:
- In addition to his metals industry experience, his private consultancy experience includes a diverse client history, including large (steel) corporations, SME service providers and regional public sector entities.
Education/Qualifications:
- B.Sc.(Hons) Production and Operations Management, University of Nottingham
- Executive M.B.A., University of Birmingham
Areas of expertise:
- Strategy Development
- Financing and due diligence support
- Metals and Mining
- Negotiation support
- Automotive
Additional Skills:
- French
