Gary Earle Email & Phone Number

Zurich, Zh, Ch

2014 to present - Global Executive Recruitment for this Swiss based $30 billion company with 105,000 employees in over 100 countries.• Responsible for leading a global team to conduct executive level searches.• Personally filled upper echelon positions within all major functions across all business areas.• Completed executive search assignments located on four continents.2011 -2013 - Product Group Solar (Previously Power-One which was acquired by ABB)• Managed a worldwide staffing team which successfully recruited over 700 new employees during a period of rapid company expansion. Recruitment activities were conducted in locations throughout Europe, Asia and North America. The employee ramp-up allowed the company to meet customer demand schedules for newly introduced products.• Upgraded the quality of the in-house recruiting team to lessen the need for outside recruiting agencies. Renegotiated agency contracts to a lower fee schedule. These efforts produced a savings of more than $250,000 per year. • Trimmed the overall cost per hire by 12%, shortened hiring cycle times, improved reporting metrics, and optimized the company’s Applicant Tracking System.• Led the development of a new career website including video content which significantly improved the company’s employment brand.• Supervised the company’s Managed Service Provider which supplies over 100 contract employees to North American manufacturing operations.• Personally conducted company “C” and Vice President level searches saving the company the cost of expensive retained searches.• Strengthened staffing processes and procedures leading to increased team efficiency and an improved recruitment experience from the candidate’s perspective. • Implemented a company wide employee referral program resulting in better candidate flow for difficult to fill positions.

• Purchased a California franchise of Management Recruiters International. MRI is the largest franchised recruiting company in the world with over 1100 offices in 36 countries. • Developed the franchise into a high producing MRI office specializing in recruiting difficult-to-fill positions in high tech industries.• Conducted training for search industry account executives which resulted in developing top performing recruiters for the franchise.• Along with management duties, maintained a personal recruiting practice specializing in the placement of highly skilled hardware/software engineering talent and was consistently the top performing recruiter in the office.• Led the office team by example demonstrating a command of effective sourcing techniques.• Recruited and placed technology industry executives in Europe and Asia.• Advised CEOs and other senior management of high technology companies regarding recruiting and retention of executive talent.

• Planned and executed a year and a half sailing trip along the northern coast of the Mediterranean Sea from Gibraltar to Turkey with my wife and son on our 42-foot sailboat.• Responsibilities included provisioning, navigation, meteorological analysis, radio communications, emergency medical preparedness, and onboard home schooling.

• Founded American Building Resources to capitalize on the growing need for factory and warehouse buildings in emerging markets due to a rapidly expanding global economy. • American Building Resources operated as an international dealer in Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America for three major American manufacturers of large pre-engineered steel buildings. • Developed and implemented strategies to sell pre-engineered steel buildings in emerging markets.• Sold 275,000 square feet of pre-engineered steel buildings in foreign countries.• Appeared before foreign governmental agencies to obtain approvals for the construction of building projects.• Estimated costs for the construction of large warehouse facilities for Intel Corporation in Costa Rica, Malaysia and the Philippines. Intel built two of the three projects.• In conjunction with a Chinese construction company, directed marketing presentations to officials of the Shanghai Airport Authority in Shanghai, China for the sale of an American manufactured maintenance hangar to house Boeing 747 aircraft.

• Provided brokerage, development, syndication and lending services to take advantage of the lucrative California real estate market for industrial parks and apartment buildings. Licensed California Real Estate Broker.• Pioneered new techniques to list, sell and lease commercial real estate properties.• Brokered the sale of over $375,000,000 of commercial real estate properties. • Created and implemented marketing programs for the sale of 1st and 2nd trust deed mortgages.• Originated in excess of $300,000,000 of residential and commercial mortgages. • Author of How to Sell Apartment Buildings; The Big Money of Real Estate, published by Dearborn Financial Publishing, Inc., Chicago, ISBN #0-88462-716-0.• Lectured extensively in the field of apartment building investments.• Interfaced with clients and financial institutions to raise equity capital for real estate investments.• Prepared written investment proposals and proformas for submission to investors, financial institutions and governmental authorities.• Lobbied special interest groups to obtain their support for development projects in city and state economic enterprise zones.• Oversaw all phases of development and leasing of three multi-tenant industrial parks totaling 263,000 square feet. Duties included site location, selection of architects, contractors and leasing agents, cost estimation and analysis, choice of lenders, contract negotiations, and construction management.• Responsible for the syndication, financing and management of multiple apartment buildings.

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