Experience

Oxbow Partners

• United Kingdom
• Insurance
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Assistant

  • Apr 2022 - Present



Gayle Watts

• Middlesbrough

• Virtual Assistant and Event Specialist

  • Aug 2019 - Present

  Hello, my name is Gayle. I am a freelance events specialist and virtual assistant, based in Middlesbrough. With over 12 years’ experience from travel/diary management and expenses to running C-Suite breakfast seminars in London to a 3-day event in New York for 500+ partners of the firm. I have extensive knowledge of what is required to run successful events and your working week. Hello, my name is Gayle. I am a freelance events specialist and virtual assistant, based in Middlesbrough. With over 12 years’ experience from travel/diary management and expenses to running C-Suite breakfast seminars in London to a 3-day event in New York for 500+ partners of the firm. I have extensive knowledge of what is required to run successful events and your working week.



TheBusinessDesk.com

• United Kingdom
• Media and Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Events

  • Jan 2020 - Jul 2020



Marsh

• United States
• Insurance
• 700 & Above Employee

• Events Manager, UK & Ireland

  • Jun 2014 - Jul 2019

  Events Manager, Marsh, UK & Ireland delivering seamless events across the business for C-Suite clients. Managing the team I ensure that events are run to the highest of standards ensuring we manage relationships within the business as well external suppliers. I hold the budget and ensure we stay within the lines and use best practice when spending. I have experience in a number of large events both internal and client facing from C-Suite breakfast seminars to exhibiting at the annual Airmic Conference. I also ran events across the International region for 18 months pulling together all the events that were taking place, managing their spend and working on various events such as exhibiting at FERMA and the annual sales conference.



Oliver Wyman Financial Services

• London, United Kingdom

• Events Co-ordinator

  • May 2007 - Jun 2014

  I started at Oliver Wyman as an Executive Assistant to 3 partners in London. I joined the newly created events team as an Events Co-ordinator running a number of high profile events for different part of the business globally. I would see events through from start to finish, manage budgets and reconciliation, contract negotiation and on site management. The largest event was a Global Partner Meeting for 450 partners in New York with a very complex agenda for the week consisting of main plenary, break outs, dine around dinners, main dinner, transport and team building.



RBS

• United Kingdom
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Office Assistant

  • Oct 2002 - May 2007

  I joined RBS straight out of college as an Admin assistant to the Company Secretariat team based in Redhill. I was tasked with admin based roles such as filing, photocopying and typing up letters via dictation. I moved into a role of managing the collation and distribution of the monthly meeting packs for the board of directors based in London. I worked with various company secretaries on arranging the monthly board meetings and sending out invitations. I worked to tight deadlines for ensuring that the board packs reached each individual ahead of the meetings.