Tess Fay

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Biography : As Vice President of Location Intelligence, Tess leads GLS’s consulting platform and the firm’s approach to integrating location strategy into rigorous, defensible executive decision making. She serves as a strategic advisor to corporate leaders navigating complex, high stakes location decisions and plays a central role in firm leadership and the execution of GLS’s most sophisticated consulting work. With more than a decade of experience, Tess is a trusted advisor to companies making consequential investment decisions shaped by workforce resiliency, energy constraints, regulatory environments, infrastructure readiness, and supply chain risk. Her work focuses on helping companies manage complexity and sustain long term performance. Tess has advised on several landmark U.S. manufacturing investments that represent a new generation of highly complex projects. These include Novelis’s $4.1 billion aluminum recycling and rolling facility in Alabama and Emirates Global Aluminium’s $4 billion aluminum smelter in Oklahoma, the first new primary aluminum production facility in the United States since 1980. Each project is expected to create approximately 1,000 jobs and significantly expand domestic aluminum production capacity. Earlier in her career, Tess worked in manufacturing and served at the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development, where she evaluated major investment projects and developed competitive incentive strategies. This experience gives her a deep understanding of the public sector perspective and informs her ability to bridge company, community, and government priorities. Tess is a Certified Site Selection Consultant and a board advisor within the Site Selectors Guild. She holds bachelor’s degrees in English and French from Centre College and an MBA from the University of West Georgia, and lives in Greenville, South Carolina with her husband and two children.

Personal Note : Tess holds dual bachelor’s degrees in English and French from Centre College and an MBA from the University of West Georgia. She enjoys gardening and hiking with her husband Michael, son, and two dogs.

Past Clients : Trex Company, Logan Aluminum, Braidy Industries, TOPY America, Novelis, SEMCORP