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Management Team

Corporate Management

 

Jean Jacques Lafont

Founder & Chairman

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

Franck Baduel

Chief Executive Officer

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

Cyrius Peter

Chief Financial Officer

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

Alex Bertoli

Chief Transformation Officer

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

Sylvain Lemercier

Chief Purchasing Officer

Sylvain joined Alliance Automotive Group 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 Alliance Automotive Group in 2015.

Peter Yip

Chief Information Officer

Peter joined Alliance Automotive Group in 2024, previously working as Chief Technology Officer for global travel company Thomas Cook.

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 Alliance Automotive Group 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 Alliance Automotive Group in 2011 and has held the positions of Chief Financial Officer of Alliance Automotive Group France, member of the Board of Directors of GROUPAUTO and Precisium and most recently, Chief Financial Officer of Alliance Automotive Group Europe.

UK & IE

Steve Richardson

Co-General Manager

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

UK & IE

Angelo Arnone

Co-General Manager

Angelo joined Alliance Automotive Group in 2001 with extensive previous experience in the commercial vehicle parts aftermarket.

Germany

Fabian Roberg

General Manager

Fabian previously owned Coler, one of the largest German IAM distributors. He joined Alliance Automotive Group when they acquired Coler in 2015.

Poland

Wit Wyborski

General Manager

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

Benelux

Cor Baltus

General Manager

Cor has joined Alliance Automotive Group when they 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 Alliance Automotive Group when they acquired LAUSAN & SOULIMA in April 2022.