{"id":271572,"date":"2018-03-09T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T20:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=271572"},"modified":"2018-03-09T06:00:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T20:00:13","slug":"atkins-kroll-leadership-changes-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/atkins-kroll-leadership-changes-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Atkins Kroll leadership changes hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TAMUNING, Guam<\/strong>\u2014George Ashford, chief executive officer of Inchcape Asia, announced the appointment of Alex Hammett to serve as president of Atkins Kroll, Inc. and Atkins Kroll, (Saipan), Inc. effective March 16, 2018. <\/p>\n<p>Hammett replaces Des Graham as president of Guam and the CNMI\u2019s largest automotive retailer. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cGraham will be leaving\u2026at the end of March. Des has decided to return to the United Kingdom to be closer to his parents, a decision we fully understand,\u201d said Ashford. <\/p>\n<p>While Des has over 32 years\u2019 experience in the automotive industry, he has been with Inchcape Group for over 13 years, holding several roles, including franchise director for Inchcape in the UK, director of Inchcape\u2019s Advantage program\u2014a global training and business development program, divisional director for Ford UK, divisional director for MG Rover UK, and, for the last five years, president of our Guam and Saipan businesses,\u201d added Ashford. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe leaves us on a high note, not only having improved company performance, but with a much stronger team in place,\u201d said Ashford. <\/p>\n<p>Hammett serves as the operations director for Atkins Kroll, Inc. after his appointment as the operations director for Atkins Kroll\u2019s Saipan dealership. He also held positions as AK\u2019s Finance &amp; Insurance director, responsible for strategy, development, and operations of the F&amp;I group and car rental operations manager responsible for corporate leasing, fleet, and car rental operations. <\/p>\n<p>Hammett worked in the hospitality industry at the region\u2019s largest hotel properties and entertainment groups. <\/p>\n<p>Hammett earned his bachelor\u2019s degree in Hospitality Business Management from Washington State University. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAMUNING, Guam\u2014George Ashford, chief executive officer of Inchcape Asia, announced the appointment of Alex Hammett&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5690,162,20373,11482],"class_list":["post-271572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-atkins-kroll","tag-car","tag-guam-george-ashford","tag-tamuning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}