Gareth Hayes
Gareth Hayes is a Senior Partner in Roland Berger's Chicago office. He serves as Deputy Managing Partner for Roland Berger’s North American team and is the Americas Head of our Capital Goods practice. Since joining the firm in 2009, his work has focused on corporate and manufacturing strategy within asset-intensive industries, with a particular interest in the construction and building technology space. Gareth is also active across sectors in pre- and post-merger integration work for both buy and sell sides.
Before his work at Roland Berger, Gareth was a mechanical engineer specializing in new product development within the industrial goods sector. Gareth holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, a Master's in Engineering Management and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University.
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Challenging outlook for industrial automation
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