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Laurence Roy joins Efficient Energy

GERMANY: Efficient Energy GmbH, the chiller manufacturer using water as the refrigerant, has appointed Laurence Roy as corporate development manager.

Roy joins Efficient Energy from Italian heat exchanger manufacturer Roen Est, who she joined in July last year as wholesale and key accounts sales director. Prior to that, Roy spent over five years at Guentner, latterly as European strategic sales director wholesale, and over 12 years at the Heatcraft Worldwide Refrigeration division of Lennox.

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