{"id":20018,"date":"2018-07-04T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T09:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=20018"},"modified":"2018-07-04T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T09:20:00","slug":"villiger-cigars-promotes-hector-j-pires-to-national-sales-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/villiger-cigars-promotes-hector-j-pires-to-national-sales-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Villiger Cigars Promotes Hector J. Pires to National Sales Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Villiger Cigars<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>continues its growth in the North American market as they announce that Hector J. Pires was promoted to the position of National Sales Manager for Villiger Cigars North America. Hector Pires is being promoted from the position of South Eastern Territory Manager, (now being managed by Villiger new hire Roger Pe\u00f1a). Pires begins his new role immediately.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20027\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20027\" class=\"wp-image-20027 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Rene-Castaneda-and-Hector-Pires-500x637.jpg\" alt=\"Rene Castaneda and Hector Pires\" width=\"260\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Rene-Castaneda-and-Hector-Pires-500x637.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Rene-Castaneda-and-Hector-Pires.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Rene-Castaneda-and-Hector-Pires-600x764.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-20027\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rene Casta\u00f1eda (left) and Hector Pires (right)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hector Pires, born in Caracas, Venezuela received his education in his native country, earning a degree in International Trade. He later found his niche in hospitality as he joined his family\u2019s restaurant group in Caracas. After rising through the ranks, he moved to Miami to open a high-end restaurant serving International cuisine. After successfully running his restaurant for 10 years, Hector decided to sell and move on to follow his passion for tobacco. A handmade premium cigar smoker enthusiast since his early 20\u2019s, Hector has been able to combine his love of tobacco and background in hospitality management, to provide the best service possible to customers.<\/p>\n<p>Rene Casta\u00f1eda, Villiger North America President said,\u201d Hector has been a great asset to Villiger Cigars over the past year and a half, and has proven that he can be an effective leader for our sales staff.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>I look forward to working closely with him as we continue to spread the Villiger message to our retailers and consumers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hector Pires is being promoted from the position of South Eastern Territory Manager, (now being managed by Villiger new hire Roger Pe\u00f1a). Pires begins his new role immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":9816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[177,49,2808,2796],"tags":[1903,1902,2410],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}