{"id":236725,"date":"2014-07-11T08:15:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T08:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agsmovers.com\/new-appointments-july2014\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T11:10:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T11:10:39","slug":"new-appointments-july2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agsmovers.com\/news\/new-appointments-july2014\/","title":{"rendered":"New Appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">AGS welcomes the following newly appointed managers:<\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"content-left alignleft\" style=\"float: left; width: auto;\" title=\"Henri de Volontat\" src=\"https:\/\/www.agsmovers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Henri_de_Volontat_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Henri de Volontat\" width=\"85\" height=\"85\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>AGS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agsmovers.com\/branches\/europe\/france\/tarbes\/\">Movers Tarbes<\/a><br \/>\nBranch Manager<br \/>\nHenri de Volontat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With Jean-Pierre Labescat retiring after 23 years\u2019 loyal service, Henri de Volontat has taken over as Branch Manager for AGS\u2019 branch in Tarbes, France. Previously the Branch Manager for AGS\u2019 branch in Auvergne Limousin from 2001, Henri has now returned to his roots after first starting as a Trainee Manager for AGS Tarbes in 1996. Other positions he has held with AGS include Trainee Branch Manager for AGS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agsmovers.com\/branches\/africa\/gabon\/\">Movers Gabon<\/a> and Branch Manager for AGS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agsmovers.com\/branches\/africa\/mali\/mali\/\">Movers Mali<\/a>, before he was sent to AGS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agsmovers.com\/branches\/europe\/france\/lyon\/\">Movers Lyon<\/a> to establish the Auvergne Limousin branch in February 2001.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI work closely with my staff because they represent our front-line of attack. My management style is client-focused and orientated towards the interests of the Group,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>explains Henri, adding that he is very happy with his new appointment to Tarbes and that he looks forward to continuing the branch\u2019s growth.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI am very attached to the AGS brand image and I am a firm believer in professionalism; we never miss a chance to show it \u2013 through both the administrative and the technical side \u2013 because this is our best advertisement,\u201d Henri concludes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18463 alignright\" style=\"width: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.agsmovers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Ilia_Rokun-SQ_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"85\" \/><strong>AGS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agsmovers.com\/branches\/europe\/ukraine\/kiev\/\">Movers Kiev<\/a><br \/>\nBranch Manager<br \/>\nIllia Rokun<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With effect from June 2014, Illia Rokun has assumed the responsibility of Branch Manager for AGS\u2019 branch in Kiev, Ukraine, replacing Karim Sikias. Illia obtained his Master\u2019s Degree in Business Administration in 2010 through the University of Nantes, immediately commencing an internship as a business analyst in Brussels. Following his internship, Illia returned to the Ukraine and joined a Kiev-based company specialising in supplier and counterfeit part risk mitigation, before joining AGS Kiev as Sales Manager in mid-2011. After being selected to participate in AGS\u2019 Branch Manager Training programme in 2013 \u2013 which saw him travelling to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agsmovers.com\/branches\/europe\/czech-republic\/prague\/\">Prague<\/a> as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agsmovers.com\/branches\/europe\/romania\/bucharest\/\">Bucharest<\/a> to receive tutorship from Samuel Barrois and Gratiela Lascu \u2013 Illia returned to Kiev to complete the programme under the guidance of Karim Sikias.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Jean-Pierre Labescat retiring after 23 years\u2019 loyal service, Henri de Volontat has taken over as Branch Manager for AGS\u2019 branch in Tarbes, France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":235588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1430,1432,1427],"tags":[1486,1788,1496,1508],"class_list":["post-236725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-eng","category-global-2","category-movers-eng","tag-ags-group","tag-clermont-ferrand","tag-employee-eng","tag-france-eng"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agsmovers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agsmovers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agsmovers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agsmovers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agsmovers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.agsmovers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382414,"href":"https:\/\/www.agsmovers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236725\/revisions\/382414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agsmovers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agsmovers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agsmovers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agsmovers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}