George McCaffery joins Compass Personnel Services Inc.

George McCaffery is something of a household name in the oil industry. Known internationally for his decades of success running companies in Houston Texas, and Aberdeen Scotland, George joins his son Steve and Phil Garrod to work as Director of Business Development, bringing his crucial experience and bevy of influential industry contacts to an already powerful personnel services team.

Phil Garrod and Steve McCaffery are together piloting a bustling oil-industry personnel placement business based in Houston, Texas, called Compass Personnel Services, Inc. Both men bring complementary skillsets to the table, but there were many years of varied experiences and development that led to this ultimate convergence to form what is now Compass Personnel Services.

Phil Garrod, who hails from England, graduated in 1974 and began working offshore immediately, and did so in the Middle East and Far East, doing both onshore and offshore oil exploration work, and in 1979 moved to Aberdeen Scotland and worked for a company there and was totally involved in offshore work at that time. After moving to the Unites States in 1992, Phil carried on working in the oil industry until 1999, at which time he was asked to help resurrect a company providing personnel to the offshore industry. With that experience in hand, Phil Garrod began Compass Personnel Services in 2004.

Steve McCaffery, on the other hand, comes from a well-known oil industry family, and has basically grown up in the industry in large part due to his father George McCaffery, whose name is practically a household word among oil industry professionals. That name recognition, along with a great bit of sales and marketing knowhow, and a "can do" attitude that helps him always get the job done, provides the other major component in Compass Personnel Service's success story.

Compass Personnel at the moment specializes in a particular sector of the offshore industry. It specializes in providing survey positioning, Geophysical, Geotechnical, ROV and mechanical personnel to the offshore industry. It provides personnel to the companies that operate ROVs (Remotely Operated Vehicles) where they do not have enough people to go on their crews. Compass Personnel has a number of people that it can provide to customers using ROVs, including hydraulic engineers to maintain them, electronic engineers, electronic technicians, mechanical technicians, pilots, and also what are known as pilot technicians.