ments arrivent sur les bureaux d'APG jour après jour. Et nombre d'entre eux sont motivés par des considérations politiques. Partout dans le monde, la politique peut avoir un impact sur votre capacité à exploiter une compagnie aérienne de manière rentable.
I've been carrying out that role now for the last 11 years, and obviously work very closely alongside Sandrine de Saint Sauveur, President & CEO of APG INC, overseeing the APG office network. In addition, and alongside some great local teams, I am also involved in the day to day management of those offices I establi- shed, including China, where I feel very invested because of my roots with Air China, and the USA as well, which is our number one market for APG, and which Sandrine and I reorganized around 5 years ago and in which we still invest a lot of time.
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lass & Relax Lifestyle Magazine : Richard Burgess, you are the President of APG Network.
Richard Burgess : Well, I joined APG back in 2000, already 24 years ago now. Prior to that, I had worked with Air China, the Chinese national airline, since 1991. I became introduced to APG as the cargo GSA of Air China at the time had been approached
Class & Relax Lifestyle Magazine : So, you're still traveling all the time, like Sandrine?
by Jean-Louis Baroux regarding the APG Network and was inter- ested in working to set up APG in the UK. So, that's what I was taken on to do originally back in 2000, and it's evolved from there. I very quickly was asked if I could oversee Europe, Middle East, and Africa. APG was quite small still in those days. APG UK star- ted to grow very quickly and I also opened up new markets within APG. I opened up China and a few other countries at that time, Ukraine as well, which is obviously challenged today, but has pre- viously been very successful for APG. And then ultimately, when Jean-Louis Baroux wished to step back from his role as President of the network, which was back in 2013, he asked if I would be keen to take that role on, and I was obviously very delighted to do so.
Richard Burgess : Yes, very much so. There's traveling for many reasons. There's traveling because of overseeing the various offices. There's traveling because of new business and meeting existing clients and new clients. Obviously, APG, as you know, has many meetings around the world. We obviously have our World Connect event, but we also have regional meetings for our res- pective offices and other meetings as well. So, that takes us around the world. Class & Relax Lifestyle, Magazine : Being the President of APG Network, you work very closely with Antoine Huet, Secretary General of APG Network, too…
Richard Burgess : Yes. We've had a number of Secretary Generals
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