Is "Wanting" a Gerund or Present Participle? [duplicate]

Solution 1:

The clause

• him wanting to switch and do something new

is a gerund complement, a noun clause that is the object of the preposition to,
which in turn is part of the idiomatic construction

• make its way around to.

The subject of the gerund clause is him (it could also be his; both are correct),
and the gerund verb is of course wanting (the verb form of the gerund is the
present participle, not to be confused with participial constructions).

The direct object of wanting (gerunds can have direct objects) is another
complement clause, this one made up of two conjoined infinitives:

• to switch and to do something new.