Irvine, California – Agility, a leading global logistics provider, has announced changes to its USA organizational structure, including a number of leadership promotions. As part of its efforts to streamline its U.S. operations and drive sales growth, the company has established its organization into two main geographic areas: Area North and Area South.

The change in structure will put management closer to the business, build a more unified strategy, improve communications and enable faster response to various industry changes. The Areas will also utilize gateway functions to support import and export consolidation programs resulting in improved space allocation for customer cargo. Area North will use Chicago and New York as principal gateways, with Boston as a support gateway for specific business and programs. Area South will use Los Angeles, Atlanta and Miami as gateway locations. Miami will serve as the Latin America gateway and hub operation for business in transit between USA and South America.

Agility’s new USA Area structure comes in conjunction with the following significant promotions and appointments:

• Mike Robinson was promoted to chief executive officer, USA. In his new role, Mike leads the USA organization, focusing on driving its business development initiatives and profitability. Since joining Agility in July 2008, Mike has been in the role of COO USA, where he was responsible for leading the country operations.
• Michael Harradine has been promoted to senior vice president, sales and marketing, for the Americas region. In this role, Michael will have responsibility for developing and implementing the sales strategy for the region with a principal focus on delivering growth in the U.S. He will lead the Americas sales force and ensure that the company leverages its global network to continue to grow its customer base.
• Jason Steinke has been promoted to vice president, Area North, based in Chicago. In this role, Jason will lead the Area North, focusing on business development initiatives and working closely with the product and sales leadership teams. Most recently, Jason served as area vice president for the Midwest.
• Patrik Ziegler has joined Agility as vice president, Area South for the U.S. In this role, Patrik will lead the Area South, focusing on business development initiatives and working closely with the product and sales leadership teams.

Steinke and Ziegler, in their role as the two Area leaders, will focus on delivering business growth, increased operational efficiency and service quality, and financial profits to their respective geographies.

“We are excited about the changes taking place this year both in the new structure of our USA regions and in putting the right people in place to drive our business goals,” said Mike Bible, chief executive officer, Americas region, Agility Global Integrated Logistics. “Under CEO USA Mike Robinson’s and our other key executives’ leadership, Agility will continue its momentum and deliver on our goals of driving quality service and strong customer results.”

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