Accreditation Services International is pleased to announce that Guntars Laguns has been appointed as new Managing Director. He will take up his position on 1 January 2012. Guntars Laguns has been working with ASI since 2004, initially as an assessor for the accreditation program of the Forest Stewardship Council. Since early 2011, he became responsible…
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Many of ASI Lead Assessors and Accreditation Program Managers have experience working for Accredited Certification Bodies, FSC National Initiatives, and/or NGOs before being recruited by ASI. Once recruited, all ASI lead assessors are required to pass an ISO 9001 lead assessor course, and to complete the ASI tailor-made training process. ASI internal training takes at…
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Starting early August, ASI recruited two Accreditation Program Officers (APO): Ms. Catalina Romero and Mr. Uriel Barrantes for the MSC and FSC programs. Catalina is from Colombia and holds a Masters in International and Development Economics at Berlin’s University of Applied Sciences. Uriel is from Costa Rica and has a B.Sc. in Law and six years working experience in…
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Springtime brought some changes at Accreditation Services International: A new office, new staff and continuous improvements to our systems. Our aim is a continued, ongoing and smooth interaction with certification bodies. Our investment in a customized Accreditation Management System is starting to pay off: Assessment scheduling, reporting and administrative management processes are now synchronized to…
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