AMR - Key Persons


Andrew Mountford

From ‘The Potteries' in the UK with over 30 years' ceramic experience especially in tableware and glass materials and decoration. Based in Hong Kong and responsible for Customer Support, Supplier liaison, product development & marketing. He has worked in corporations and start-up companies as well as being a regular contributer to Asian Ceramics magazine.

Carlo Ricotta

A highly experienced Italian Ceramic Engineer. Carlo worked for Florim Group of Italy, multinationals Johnson Matthey Plc & Endeka. Initially based in the centre of the tile industry in Italy he moved to Asia in the early '90s, based for several years in Jakarta before relocating again to Kuala Lumpur for the last 27 years. Carlo travels extensively servicing in South East Asia, China and Sub Continent principally the tile industry.

Jiang Yufang

Ms. Jiang originally came from Shanghai and has many years of trading experience in a varity of businesses and industries. An initial investor and director of AMR. Based in the Hong Kong office she is responsible for logistics, and has direct sales authorization.

John Hoang Giang

John Hoang Giang has developed his expertise over the past twenty-five years focusing on ceramic raw materials. Since 2003 John has led VITIS Joint Stock Company into one of the largest suppliers of raw materials to the ceramic industry in Vietnam and strategically set up technology partnership with selected local mining companies for production of ceramic materials to serve the local industry and export.Giang is also CEO of VITIS JSC who are a shareholder of AMR Ltd for its inception.

Richard Leonard

A widely respected industry veteran with nearly a half-century of experience in the production of ceramic products and minerals. Having worked for the biggest and most respected processed mineral suppliers, Richard joined AMR to direct our sales into sanitaryware and tableware and to develop new markets both for buying and selling.

Sirirat Pornaroontan

Graduated with a Bachelor of Science, with her major in Material Science/Ceramics in 1992 at Chulalongkorn University. Since then, she has worked for major international trading companies and material specialists until setting up AMR Bangkok in 2009 of which she is the major shareholder and Managing Director.