Key People

  • Mr. Abdallah G. Bseirani, President

Abdallah is a graduate Mechanical Engineer with Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He has worked for a Consulting Engineering firm in Detroit for three years.
He then joined Carrier International Corporation where he has held various positions in Engineering, Sales, and Marketing in USA. He later held various positions with Carrier International in the Middle-East in Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Manufacturing, and Executive Management.
His last position was President of Carrier International’s manufacturing subsidiary in Iran, which he was responsible for forming, building its manufacturing facility and its organization.
He has over 45 years of varied business experience in the Middle-East markets, ranging from Executive Management to Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Distribution, Manufacturing, Licensing, Joint Venturing, Letters of Credit, Shipping etc..

Abdallah, a naturalized USA citizen born in Syria, has both Lebanese and French high school degrees (Baccalaureats). He speaks, reads, and writes fluently English, French, Arabic and Farsi (Persian).

  • Mrs. Katrina Bseirani, VP Operations

Katrina is a Business graduate from Onondaga Community College. She has many years of experience in office management, handling purchase orders, monitoring purchase orders progress with our Principals’ factories, shipping, Letters of Credit administration and bookkeeping. She speaks, reads and writes English and Arabic.

  • Mr. Jean-Pierre Bseirani, IT Business Development Manager

Born in Syracuse, New York and raised in the Middle East, Jean-Pierre speaks, reads and writes fluently English and Arabic. He is also conversant in French. He spent most of his life traveling between the USA and the Middle East.
He attended a British High School in Jordan.
He is a graduate from Syracuse University, in Syracuse, New York where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
Jean-Pierre joined AGB International as a full-time employee in May 2010.
He was trained in Field Service and Installation Inspection of cast iron, SS and Niresist Gates/Penstocks as well as in control valves.
Jean-Pierre is also active with our sister company, Avertra Corp, as a Software Product Engineer.
He is the IT Business Development Manager.

  • Dr. Margie T. Ierlan, Ph D – Marketing & Logistics Consultant

Margie is a graduate of LeMoyne College in Syracuse, New York where she earned a Master’s Degree and a Ph D degree in Business Administration.
She is currently a Professor of Marketing at LeMoyne College.
Margie is a “Certified Ocean Forwarder” licensed by the US Federal Maritime Commission and manages K&M International, a Forwarding sister company to AGBI.
She has over seventeen years experience in the International Business field, including marketing, International Letters of Credit administration, Ocean /Air freight shipping and Export / Import documentation.

  • Mr. Munther Turk, Manager – Engineering Dept.

Munther is a 2003 graduate Mechanical Engineer from Jordan University in Amman, Jordan. He has been working at AGBI’s Middle East Regional Office since he graduated from Jordan University.
He later completed a conversion program as an Aeronautical Engineer from Jordan University of Science & Technology.
He works with Project Owners, Consulting Engineers and Contractors as well as with our Principals’ Engineering and Sales Departments.

 

  • Mr. Hasan Shahin, Office Manager

Hasan is a 1997 graduate from Jordan University with a BA degree in English Literature. Hasan is the Office Manager of our Middle East office and monitors status of purchase orders and shipments of same to the customers.

  •  Mr. Tom Tadros, Information Manager

Tom is a Certified Microsoft Systems Engineer, responsible for the IT activities and our company’s website and computers.