Philippou's specific duties include coaching, motivating, and supporting the sales team through collaborative site/customer visits while challenging commercial and final tender submissions to ensure competitiveness and innovation. He is also tasked with identifying new routes to market and setting business plans and regional targets for each sales team member.

During his 33 years working in the corporate facilities management and HVAC sectors - including 10 years as a senior technical engineer, coupled with a further 23 years in Business Development - Philippou has developed and honed his technical and managerial skills to meet a variety of challenges in FTSE 100 and global organisations. He has previously held roles at Johnson Controls, Swegon, BAM FM, and other businesses.

Roberto Mallozzi, managing director of LH-plc, said: 'We are thrilled to have Phil join our team. He is a seasoned professional, having held a series of senior technical and business development roles in the facilities and HVAC sectors spanning more than three decades. In that time, he has demonstrated maturity in high-level negotiations, strategic key account experience, sales team coaching, tenacity, adaptability, and organisational efficiency. Indeed, Phil brings a wealth of experience and expertise to his role, and I am sure his expertise in business development combined with his proven sales ability will be invaluable to LH.'

Philippou added: 'I am delighted to be joining LH-plc, a pioneering air conditioning and refrigeration engineering business that operates at the cutting edge. I relish the opportunity to work with the exceptional sales team at LH to boost the company's business, and to continue to grow and innovate in all the fields in which it operates.'