ACR Journal

December 2022 | January 2023 CHANGING FACES 34 PAUL SINGH, DAMIAN WISZNIEWSKI, IOR BOARD OF TRUSTEES Paul Singh and Damian Wiszniewski have been elected to the Institute of Refrigeration (IOR) board of trustees. Announced at the IOR AGM, they replace Lisa-Jayne Cook and Juliet Loiselle, who have completed their terms of office along with past president Kevin Glass. The meeting also sawMike Creamer formall hand over the role of president to Graeme Fox, who was elected by the membership last year. ChillAir (UK) Training Academy owner Singh has worked in the RACHP sector for over 45 years in training and assessment roles. He has a particular interest in addressing key issues facing the sector including training, raising awareness and image, recruitment and environmental impact. Samsung business development manager Wiszniewski currently serves as chair of the IOR membership committee. He has been an active member of the HVACR community for 10 years, and also supports the Hampshire Refrigeration Society as vice-chair and is a member of the IOR Southwest Branch steering group. A complete list of current trustees and information about the role and elections processes are available on the IOR website at: www.ior.org.uk/board-of-trustees CHRIS JOHNSON, UK DIRECTOR OF SALES, VIESSMANN Viessmann has appointed Chris Johnson as UK director of sales, based at the company’s Telford headquarters. In a new senior position reporting into managing director Graham Russell, he will oversee Viessmann’s UK sales operation, covering domestic and commercial sales of all products and services within the company’s Climate Solutions division, including the Vitocal heat pump range. Johnson previously held sales and business development leadership positions at Stiebel Eltron and Plumbing Trade Supplies (PTS) and, most recently, was national sales director – heat pumps & renewables at Vaillant. He said: “I’m really looking forward to developing and leading the sales structure and strategy of the Viessmann business as it transitions to become an even stronger renewables focussed company. “Joining Viessmann at a pivotal point in its accelerated active transition towards renewable solutions and supporting the UK team to reshape the customer proposition are opportunities I’m very excited to deliver on. Working for an organisation with family values and the ambition to develop future-oriented solutions was at the forefront of my decision to join the Viessmann family.” Graham Russell said: “With Chris’s appointment, Viessmann is taking another fundamental step forward in the UK. Chris joins our business with vast experience of the heating industry and more importantly, the heat pump market. Chris’s technical knowledge and commercial awareness of the market will be a huge asset to Viessmann.” www.viessmann.co.uk/ MIKE CARMAN, EXECUTIVE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, INVERTEK DRIVES Invertek Drives has appointed Mike Carman as executive business development manager for the HVAC-R sector. He will focus on the development of Invertek’s position as an innovator and manufacturer of energy efficient variable frequency drives (VFD) used to control and optimise the performance of AC electric motors used in BLDC compressors for applications such as heat pumps, CDUs and refrigeration food retail display cases. Carman has worked in the VFD industry for more than 20 years, including a total of six years at Invertek Drives. He has been heavily involved in Invertek’s work in the refrigeration sector in recent years with the launch of Optidrive Coolvert, a VFD designed specifically for OEMs to optimise the performance of BLDC compressors using natural refrigerants such as R744 and R290. Rhydian Welson, sales and marketing director at Invertek, said: “Globally there is a push, indeed a need, to reduce energy consumption and associated emissions. Our VFDs are already being used in the HVAC-R sector and our overall market share of the industry has grown significantly in recent years having witnessed record orders and growth. “Mike has a wealth of knowledge and experience in this sector and will lead on this global development.” www.invertekdrives.com DEANE FLINT, HEAD OF NORTHERN EUROPE, HAIER EUROPE HVAC Deane Flint has been appointed head of northern Europe for Haier Europe HVAC, a global leader in comfort cooling offering residential, commercial and applied air conditioning solutions. Deane is a familiar face in the refrigeration and air conditioning industry having formerly been employed as UK managing director of Mitsubishi Electric and, most recently, commercial director of Coolair Equipment. His new UK-based role will see him work closely with the company’s country managers and their distributors to extend the customer base. He said: “I’m delighted to be joining Haier Europe HVAC – an agile, fast-paced company open to new ideas. These are exciting times for the industry and Haier has a fantastic range of energy-saving products to offer the market. “Haier’s new energy-saving products and technologies offer high levels of comfort and safer, cleaner air. We are employing low GWP refrigerants to help protect the planet and are exploring more sustainable ways to heat and cool buildings. I have no doubt that air to water heat pump systems will have a key role to play in the domestic and the commercial sectors. Fossil boilers will need to be changed on a large scale and the heat pump is an obvious solution.” Haier Europe managing director Bob Cowlard said: “I’m delighted to have someone of Deane’s experience and stature joining Haier to spearhead our next stage of expansion in the UK and northern Europe.” www.haierhvac.eu Volume 9 No.1 Paul Singh, Damian Wiszniewski, IOR Board of Trustees