Simon Gibson – Managing Director
Fast React Asia
A graduate of Manchester University, Simon has 25 years experience in garment manufacturing in both the UK and SE Asia.
Simon has lived in Asia for over 10 years and has held management positions in the areas of Industrial Engineering, Technical and Production Management in some of the UK and Asia's leading garment manufacturers, producing a wide range of knit and woven garments for leading UK and US retailers.
A period working as an independent Productivity Improvement Consultant for apparel factories in South East Asia provided significant additional experience of the industry at ground level.
In 2002 Simon set up Fast React Asia based in Bangkok, Thailand to provide marketing, implementation and after sales support for Fastreact throughout the Asia region. Starting from a handful of users in 2 or 3 countries and just two staff… by 2007 Simon's team have introduced Fastreact into 150 + businesses in 13 countries and have established themselves with around 20 staff comprising 8 nationalities.
