Asirom undergoing shake-up

Asirom is going through a thorough management reorganisation and reassignment of some of the management team members to lower executive positions, sources close to the company say. It is yet unclear whether those targeted will agree with the reassignments or not, as most of them are now on holiday or sick leave for more or less strategic reasons.
The company representatives did not care to provide any details about the reassignments, but confirmed reorganisation was, indeed, in progress.
“Asirom’s Board of Directors has taken a series of steps and organisational measures to keep the company’s business on an upward trend. The measures target both the reorganisation of certain departments, as well as the establishment of new structures required by a modern management,” the company says.
The changing “spree” at Asirom began early last week, soon after the Board meeting.
The most important changes are, sources say, reassigning Luminita Batagui, head of the Property and Transport Insurance Department (the most important Asirom department, after all) to a newly established, less important department (Logistics) and Anton Petre, head of the Reinsurance Department, to another position in the same department. At the same time, the Marketing, PR and Advertising Department, headed by Gabriela Rusu will be dissolved.
Both Luminita Batagui and Gabriela Rusu are now on leave. “I would rather not go into this right now. I am on sick leave,” Batagui said.
On the other hand, Dumitru Paratu, head of the budget-accounting department is set to retire, Dan Gabriel Sauer, head of the General Civil Liability Insurance Department moves on to head Reinsurance, while Elena Stoicescu, head of the Organisation, Human Resources, Shareholders and Surveys Department could be assigned to run the Investment Department.
All the info gathered so far shows Angela Toncescu, company chairperson since Asirom’s privatisation in 1997 will keep her position. She could not be reached for comment by the time the story was ready for print on Monday.
The cause of these changes, the most spectacular ones since InterAgro Group took over in 1997, are yet unknown.