Career Coaching

London Career Fair
Friday, July 14, 2023

Career Coaching is your chance to have a 15-minute mentoring session with an industry leader who will answer your questions, help sharpen your focus and offer career suggestions based on your experience, training and personality. Choose an area of interest and we’ll match you with the right coach on a first-come, first-served basis. Coaches Categories and Coaches are subject to change.

Coaching Categories may include:

• Appraising          
• Business Startup
• Coloured Stones
• Design & Manufacturing
• Diamonds           
• Auctions
• Networking for Business
• Laboratory

Coaches Attending include:

• Shirin Bandukwalla – SGL Laboratories
• Alessandro Borruso – Sothebys
• Iona Buxton – Buyer/Dealer, GF Williams
• Julia Castelli – Director, Julia Castelli
• Yves Fry – Director, Yves Frey Diamonds
• Adam Georgiou – Director, Adam's Gold
• Raphaelle Godfrey – Head of Jewellery, Chiswick Auctions
• Kerry Gregory – Managing Director, Gemmology Rocks
• Julia Griffith – Laboratory-grown Diamond Specialist, The Gem Academy
• Muhammad Ishaq – Director, Gem Craft
• Maiko Nagayama – Creative Director and Designer, Maiko Nagayama
• Stuart Pool – Nineteen48
• Anna Rogers – Director, Almaz Valuations
• Jackie Sanders                  
• Barry Sullivan – Director, Jewellery Advisory Services Ltd
• Alexia Taylor – Walsh Bros Jewellers
• Ben Umbers – Sales Director UK & IRELAND, HRA Group – rough diamond manufacturer