Jeswant Gill
Harsco Corporation has appointed Jeswant Gill president of its worldwide Harsco Rail business, effective November 1, 2016. Gill has 30 years of global leadership experience in major multinational manufacturing and technology firms. He will be based at Harsco Rail’s division headquarters in Columbia, S.C.
Since 2015, he has been serving as managing director of Arcadia Group International’s global solutions group, providing business advisory and strategic planning services to multinational clients. Prior to that, he was executive vice president at Kennametal’s $1.3 billion industrial segment, where he delivered strong revenue growth and margin expansion in emerging markets.
Gill was also employed by Ingersoll Rand, where he served as vice president of global services for the industrial technologies sector, successfully developing and launching offerings to address the equipment/systems life cycle needs of customers, and as president of the company’s technologies business in the Asia-Pacific region. In addition, he has held leadership positions in Asia and North America with Invensys PLC and Johnson Controls Inc.
Gill earned a bachelor of science in engineering physics and an MBA at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.
“Jeswant is an inclusive, collaborative leader who has built and led high-performance global teams and driven significant business growth across the Americas, Europe and Asia,” said Harsco President and CEO Nick Grasberger. “His leadership accomplishments fit perfectly with our aspirations for the Harsco Rail business.”
Harsco Rail delivers railway track maintenance and construction to more than 125 major railway customers throughout the world. It operates from nine main locations in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, India, Brazil, China and Australia.