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AAG Management Team

Corporate Management

 

Jean Jacques Lafont

Jean Jacques Lafont

Founder & Executive Chairman

Having previously worked for Hewlett Packard Europe, Jean Jacques co-founded AAG in 1989 with Alistair Brown.

Franck Baduel

Chief Executive Officer

Franck has worked with AAG for over 20 years gaining previous experience whilst working in finance.

Cyrius Peter

Chief Financial Officer

Cyrius joined AAG in 2016 and has held the position as Head of European Finance at AAG in the past years. Prior to that, he worked in audit and transaction services at Deloitte for several years.

Christian Schmolke

Chief Information Officer

Christian previously worked at ak tronic GmbH before joining Coler and subsequently AAG in 2012.

Sylvain Lemercier

Chief Purchasing Officer

Sylvain joined AAG in 2015, having previously worked at Phillips Lumiled, Autodistribution, PSA and Faurecia.

Asireh Moradkhani

Chief Human Resources Officer

Asireh has been Group HR Manager since 2018.  She has worked for Coler since 2015, which was acquired by AAG in 2015.

Alex Bertoli

Chief Transformation Officer

Before joining AAG in 2021, Alex worked for Delphi Technologies, in both Aftermarket and Corporate roles. Prior to that he worked for Boston Consulting Group.

Peter Meyer - AAG Group Supply Chain Director

Peter Meyer

AAG Group Supply Chain Director

Having previously worked at ELHO, HEMA and Macintosh Retail Peter has been working for Parts Point Group since 2013, which was acquired by AAG in 2019. He joined the AAG Management team in April 2020.

Gijsbert Slob

Digital Director EU 

In his former role Gijsbert developed and implemented a successful digital strategy within the Partspoint Group that was acquired by AAG during 2019. He started in August 2020 in the position of Digital Director EU.

 

Country Management

General Managers

France

Thomas Tabiasco

General Manager

Thomas joined AAG in 2011 and has held the positions of Chief Financial Officer of AAG France, member of the Board of Directors of GROUPAUTO and Precisium and most recently, Chief Financial Officer of AAG Europe.

Steve Richardson

UK & IE

Steve Richardson

Co-General Manager

Steve joined AAG in 2015, following time at AC Delco, General Motors, and as Aftermarket Sales Director at Denso Europe.

Angelo Arnone

UK & IE

Angelo Arnone

Co-General Manager

Angelo joined AAG in 2001 with extensive previous experience in the commercial vehicle parts aftermarket.

Fabian Roberg

Germany

Fabian Roberg

General Manager

Fabian previously owned Coler, one of the largest German IAM distributors.  He joined AAG when AAG acquired Coler in 2015.

Wit Wyborski - General Manager AAG Poland

Poland

Wit Wyborski

General Manager

Wit joined AAG in 2019. He worked previously as managing director at Bridgestone Europe and Feu Vert.

Benelux

Cor Baltus

General Manager

Cor has joined AAG when AAG acquired Parts Point Group in 2019. He has worked with PPG for over 6 years after previous experience while working at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and KIA.

Spain and Portugal

Nacho Pernas

General Manager 

Having previously worked for Robert Bosch, Nacho has been working for LAUSAN for more than 15 years. Nacho joined AAG when they acquired LAUSAN & SOULIMA in April 2022.