AAG Management Team
Corporate Management
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.
Thomas Tabiasco
AAG Group Chief Financial Officer
Thomas joined AAG in 2011 after 10 years in audit and transaction services at Arthur Andersen, E&Y and Eight Advisory.
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.
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.
Asireh Moradkhani
Chief Human Resource Manager
Asireh has been Group HR Manager since 2018. She has worked for Coler since 2015, which was acquired by AAG in 2015.
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.
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.
Country Management
General Managers
France
Eric Girot
General Manager & European Procurement Supervisor
Having spent 10 years working at Valeo, with the last four as European Category Manager, Eric joined AAG in 2005.
United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland
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
Co-General Manager
Angelo joined AAG 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 AAG when AAG acquired Coler in 2015.
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.