PARTNERS

COLLECTIVE COMPETENCE

With three-quarters of a century of consulting experience, CG&C’s Partners, collectively, bring to the firm’s clients a broad and in-depth expertise and experience. The latter - backed by a very high level of academic qualification and strong language skills - allow them to devise solutions in connection with issues facing top management (CEOs and main boards) in all areas of economic activity.

In addition, CG&C’s pluri-cultural nature allows the firm to be credible and effective in most, if not all, economically-developed countries, both within and without Europe. In this connection, the firm’s track-record in culturally diverse countries shows that it is competent and successful in handling ethnically-sensitive issues and contexts.

JACQUES H GAINSBURY

A British subject, CG&C’s Managing Partner is the holder of both a medical qualification (University of London) and a degree in economics and finance. He spent the first eleven years of his career in academia, teaching anatomy at his alma mater. He switched to the private sector in 1982, when he joined Biogen SA in Geneva, one of the early biotechnology firms. In 1985, he moved to the field of consulting, first in the area of corporate alliance development, before joining, in 1989, the executive search/structure development subsidiary of Deloitte & Touche in Paris. In 1992, having defined the core business model and value proposition behind the firm’s service offerings, he co-founded Cabinet Gainsbury & Consorts in Geneva. Bilingual and bi-cultural English-French, he has acquired, since 1985, consulting experience in most major European countries, in Hong Kong, in the Middle East and in the US. His main areas of consulting expertise are in the fields of organisational behaviour analysis and optimisation of main board interactions, an expertise he has brought to bear in a broad spectrum of industries, eg, pharmaceuticals, health delivery, legal and audit, oil, shipping, banking and finance, and engineering. He has published a number of articles on and around the topic of leadership. As well as managing the firm, he is in charge of CG&C’s Family Business Succession Planning and Implementation activities, in addition to the fields mentioned above.

ANTHONY W TRAVIS

A UK chartered accountant (FCA), Anthony Travis, a UK subject and a Swiss national, was, until joining CG&C, a senior partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Geneva and a Swiss federal bank auditor. He has worked extensively in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He was founding board member of the Family Business Network, the leading worldwide body for family business owners, and a founder and board member of Le Réseau, Geneva (a venture capital industry think-tank and lobby group). He is a board member of L'Observatoire de la Finance, a Swiss foundation and think-tank studying "Finance for the Common Good". A specialist in Islamic banking risk-management issues to the Islamic Financial Services Board, he has spoken on this topic at various conferences in the Middle East and at Cambridge University. A member of the Governing Council of the War-Torn Societies Project International, he is also an associate of the Centre for International Business and Management at the Judge Business School, Cambridge University. Publications include "International Transfer Pricing", "Monetary Debt and the Legitimacy of Demands for its Recovery ", "The Auditing Profession after Enron" and "From Bretton Woods to Basel II". He is in charge of CG&C’s Family Business Governance and Shareholder Value Preservation activities.