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Deverick appointed Fujitsu commercial manager

UK: Fujitsu General Air Conditioning UK has appointed Phil Deverick as commercial manager for the UK and Ireland. 

Deverick was most recently head of marketing UK and Ireland for Panasonic, covering both Panasonic UK and its distributor AMP. He has also held various commercial, sales and technical roles at both AMP and Mitsubishi Electric. 

The Fujitsu technical team has also been strengthened with the addition of Tanaka Jera, joining the company as a pre-sales specification engineer.  Experienced in AutoCAD and air conditioning system design, Jera will support both internal and external sales channels and be based at Fujitsu Air Conditioning UK headquarters in Elstree.

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