Ray Gibson

Resourcing positions in Germany and Czech Republic - IT / Telco roles - HR leadership roles - Executive Search Zeebra Resource Solutions is a full service contingency recruitment and executive search firm. In 2002 Zeebra entered the recruitment market in Czech Republic and in Berlin in 2011. After years of growth, learning and establishment on the market we are now in the fortunate position to be the preferred suppliers to both large prestigious international firms and small to

Ray has played every kind of venue and show for 50 to 5000 people over the past 6 years. Fronting his previous band (www.youtube.com/theroadstv) and continuing solo, Ray has played all of the larger clubs in the Berlin scene such as Cafe Zapata, Sage, Wabe, Magnet, White Trash, Knaack etc as well as all major clubs in the Czech Republic where he lived for 10 years (Rock Cafe, Akropolis, Roxy, Lucerna), plus TV appearances on Breakfast TV, evening shows, National music awards and major festivals, UK Radio...

After a brief period managing recruitment as an external contractor, I was asked to lead the HR function for the CEE region with the following key responsibilities: • Provide a full HR service to the company’s largest employing offices in Prague, to 400 staff • Manager a team of 4 staff in Prague + 1 HR assistant in Bulgaria • Reduced the number of job vacancies by half within 3 months • Launch the company’s first graduate program in October 2007

• Employed to launch the Czech business of Tim Lewis Recruitment, for both temporary and permanent recruitment. • Business development leader, finding and managing new clients, creating tenders and proposals; client contract negotiations • Hiring and training new consultants, with ongoing mentoring, skills development, continuous improvement of methods and best practice

Business leader, hiring and training new consultants, with ongoing mentoring, skills development, continuous improvement of methods and best practice Management of recruiting team of 15 Consultants plus 3 middle managers and external training partners. Leading Business development/sales Forming strategy with partners/co-owners

Personnel Management