Simon Halle-Smith
Head of Global Human Resources and EHS
British national
Born in 1966
Joined Givaudan in 2007
Appointed to current position in 2015
Simon Halle-Smith began his career in the pharmaceutical industry in 1991. He worked with Eli Lilly & Company in the UK in Clinical Trial Project Management, Sales and Human Resources.
In 2004, he joined Quest International as HR Director for the UK, before being appointed European HR Director in 2005.
When Quest International was acquired by Givaudan in 2007, he continued as European HR Director before being appointed Head of HR for the Fragrance Division in 2009.
In 2015, Simon Halle-Smith became Head of Global Human Resources and a member of the Executive Committee. He took on the additional responsibility for Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) as of March 2017.
External mandates held: Director of Geranium Management Ltd., United Kingdom.
Simon Halle-Smith has a bachelor’s degree in Biology and Chemistry and a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of East Anglia in the UK.