Susan Jacques and Tom Moses to Present on the Latest Developments at GIA
GIA’s next Gemstone Gathering is Sept. 14 in Bangkok
BANGKOK – Sept. 11, 2015 – On Monday, Sept. 14, attendees of GIA’s monthly Gemstone Gathering in Bangkok will have the opportunity to hear from Susan Jacques, GIA’s president and CEO, and Tom Moses, GIA’s executive vice president and chief laboratory and research officer, during a presentation on the latest developments at the Institute.Jacques will discuss recent developments at GIA that build on the Institute’s more than 80 years of working to ensure the public trust in gems and jewelry. Moses will offer an update of GIA’s research program and laboratory service offerings.
Jacques became GIA’s president and CEO in January 2014. She received her GG diploma in 1980 and is a Fellow of the Gemmological Association of Great Britain. In 1982, Jacques joined Borsheim’s Fine Jewelry and Gifts in Omaha, Nebraska. She was appointed president and CEO in 1994 by Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., which had acquired Borsheim’s in 1989. She joined the GIA Board of Governors in May 1996 and was chair from 2008 until 2014.
Moses earned his GG diploma at GIA’s West Los Angeles campus in 1976 and began work at the GIA laboratory in Santa Monica in 1977, moving to the laboratory in New York in 1986. Named Executive Vice President and Chief Laboratory and Research officer in 2013, he has been instrumental in the Institute’s groundbreaking gem identification and research efforts. Moses has headed some of GIA’s most critical identification and research projects and co-authored many articles for the Institute’s award-winning journal, Gems & Gemology. He joined the GIA Board of Governors in November 2013.
GIA’s Gemstone Gathering, a free event, begins at 6 p.m. on Sept. 14 in the “Silom & Saladaeng Room” on the 21st floor of the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Lumpini Park in Bangkok.
