About Us

People behind the scenes

Our team brings more than 20 years of experience in the areas of Sales, Business Development & Marketing from all over the world.

The key PEOPLE for YOUR SUCCESS are in our core team:

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Paris, France

Philippe Meignen

Philippe brings 35 years of experience in the Automotive Industry, having worked for major OEM PSA Peugeot Citroën (Stellantis) and global Tier 1 suppliers such as Inalfa Roof Systems, Takata, and Joyson Safety Systems. He has held various roles across Engineering, Business Development, Program Management, and Sales, including positions as Customer Sales Manager and Global Sales Director. Philippe has consistently operated in multicultural environments, with international engagements across Europe, the U.S., Brazil, and China.

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Versailles, France

Jean-Gilles Chomet

Jean-Gilles has 25 years of experience and successful accomplishment as Engineering Manager, Sales Director, General Manager in multinational companies of the Automotive Industry like Magna, Adient (ex-JCI), Renault.

15 years of professional experience in business development, sales with results in profitable revenue growth and management of Business Unit/Cost Center. Always working in a multi-cultural environment with international relations. Native in French, fluent in English.

Düsseldorf, Germany

Rüdiger Hölzel

Rüdiger brings a 360º experience based in his roles at OEM, TierX and distributor level. With automotive in the DNA of his family since generations, Rüdiger has worked in companies like Toyo Tires, Volkswagen or recently in Delphi, in positions as Country Director, Head of Marketing, or Director of Business Development. His deep understanding of all channels and his wide network, are key benefits for our customers in the automotiveindustry.

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Munich, Germany

Nils Garrelfs

Nils is an interim manager and project leader with more than 16 years of experience in the automotive industry in Europe, China, Africa and The Americas. He has gained his professional experience from strategy consulting for major automotive OEMs and suppliers at Berylls by Alix Partners and Accenture, in various strategic functions at BMW Group and as COO of an emerging manufacturing company for automotive components.

Bologna, Italy

Rosario Mangiapia

Rosario Giorgio brings more than 20 years of experience in Independent  Automotive Aftermarket management. He has held positions as KAM, Trade Manager, Sales Director and General Manager in multinational companies in the Automotive Industry such as Bosch Gmbh and Holger Christiansen A/S. He recently put his experience at the service of Business Development projects both for companies working in the traditional IAM and those linked to the latest market developments in the electric mobility. He loves working in multicultural environments with win-win relationships for clients and partners. Italian native, fluent in English.

Nagoya, Japan

Yasuo Ohyama

Yasuo (Ray) Ohyama has variety of experience in the Automotive Industry, mainly as R&D expert, but also in Sales & Marketing, Quality, Finance & Accounting, Project Management, as well as General Manager and CFO. He worked at Toyota Motor, Brose Fahrzeugteile, Toyota Boshoku and so on, and is based in Nagoya Japan.
Thanks to his experience, he understands the business culture of European companies as well as Japanese, therefore he could develop business effectively.

Amsterdam, NL

Bart Timmermans

With more than 20 years of international managerial experience Bart is specialized in General Management with P&L responsibility, Business Development, Marketing and Sales. Bart brings a wealth of IAM experience. having worked for the likes of Rockwool, Varta, eXponentia, Johnson Controls and Clarios. Bart has extensive experience with partners all over Europe, in the MEA and the US and leading cross border teams with a multi-cultural background. Native in Dutch. Fluent in English and German. 

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Katowice, Poland

Bogumił Papierniok

Bogumił has been working in the Automotive aftermarket for over 28 years. With experience from the one of the biggest Polish and European spare parts distributor, Moto-Profil, on positions like Sales Manager, Managing Director and COO to Member of the Board. He brings great experience in different areas, from international procurement to business development, IT and Marketing. His latest position for the brand KAMOKA gave him an internal view of producers’ side of IAM.

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Madrid, Spain

Javier Lorenzo Martínez

Javier brings more than 15 years of experience in the Automotive AM, where he has lead the creation of new market strategies and adaption of the product range to the real needs and key players for the Iberian market. He won his experience in different roles in IAM as Sales Director, Key Account Manager, or Managing Director, in companies like GM ACDelco, Valeo, Denso Aftermarket, Remy Automotive Europe, and at distribution level in one member of Groupauto Union. He speaks Spanish, Portuguese and English.

Valencia, Spain

Miguel Ángel Casas Prósper

Miguel Ángel brings more than 15 years of experience in the Automotive Industry in roles like Head of Business Development, Team Leader Sales or Sales & Marketing Manager among others. His professional background was built in premium Tier 1 companies like WABCO, Johnson Controls, Kongsberg Automotive and AMK Automotive. He won his international experience working and being active in the European, USA and Chinese Markets.

Gothenburg, Sweden

Mohan Engkvist

Mohan has more than 20 years of experience in the automotive industry both from OEM (Volvo Cars) and Supplier side (among others F.Segura and Elring Klinger) and provides outstanding industry and market knowledge. His background covers not only Sales Representation but also Project Management. He is right in the middle of the Swedish Automotive cluster.

Solihull, UK

Tajinder Kalsi

Taj brings more than 30 years of international Automotive experience, gained at
OEMS Ford, Jaguar Land Rover and major Tier 1s Johnson Controls, Lear
Corporation, Gentherm and Key Safety Systems. He has held senior leadership
roles in Business Development, Programme Management and Operations. He has
a technical background in safety critical systems and most recently in E- mobility.

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Birmingham, UK

Martin Pring

With more than 30 years of experience in the Aftermarket, Martin has been managing Japanese (Denso, NGK) and European (Hella, NRF) companies in UK. He provides deep expertise not only in Sales but also in Operations and HR Management. Currently he is also involved in Digital Transformation Services for the Aftermarket segment.

Testimonials

What our Clients say

Our company benefitted hugely from the extremely focused and insightful support from Miguel Casas. His knowledge, business development skills and practical, structured approach have helped us immensely to focus our future growth plans and have been instrumental in providing a realistic business plan we can deliver on. I have no hesitation to recommend Stepsbridge and wish the company further success as it too, no doubt, will grow.
John Giles
Managing Director Ireland - AMK Group