Not being daunted by difficult or controversial projects

Professional and Corporate
Written By Stuart McNish

Guest: Gavin Dew (chief strategy officer at an agricultural technology hub)

What does Gavin Dew do for a living? He jokes that even his wife doesn’t know. But to him, his work is to get complicated major projects built in difficult situations. Those situations may be politically difficult or controversial, but that does not scare him. To him, anything worth doing is hard – to him, that is “interesting and fun.”

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