Rolando Gächter

As Director of IPA Middle East Business Development, Rolando is responsible for developing a deeper understanding of the capital projects environment in the Middle East and supporting its clients in the region.

Rolando has over two decades of experience working with IPA clients worldwide to enhance the value generated from their capital project systems. Rolando has led many large-scale project system and individual capital project evaluations for state-owned companies and independent operators in the Middle East. As the manager of IPA’s Exploration & Production (E&P) practice in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) for several years, Rolando possesses in-depth knowledge of the capital projects environment and the engineering, procurement, and contracting (EPC) issues facing owner-operators in the Middle East. Specializing in energy and minerals extraction projects, Rolando’s experience extends to evaluations of more than 100 major capital projects worldwide in the oil & gas and mining sectors.

After serving as the main point of contact for IPA’s E&P industry clients in the EMEA region from 2011 to 2015, Rolando moved on to lead IPA’s Asia-Pacific operations, managing offices in Singapore and Melbourne, Australia. He returned to the EMEA region in late 2018.

Rolando received an MBA and a BSc in Mining and Minerals Engineering from Virginia Tech.