Courts appoints new country manager

Courts Guyana Inc has announced that Clyde de Haas has been appointed Country Manager effective September 1.

In a press release Courts said current Country Manager Lester Alvis has been promoted to Managing Director of the OECS region for Courts Caribbean. Alvis joined the Guyana branch in October 2002 as Operations Director.

He was then appointed Managing Director in 2005.

De Haas is currently the Director of Purchasing. He holds a Masters in Wood Technology from the Royal University of Ghent in Belgium and a business diploma from Harvard University.

He joined the Courts family in 1999 as a furniture buyer.

He was then promoted to Director of Furniture Purchasing after which he took on the role of Director of Purchasing and Customer Service.

Over the past two years de Haas has also been involved in the operations and marketing aspects of the business.