BALTIMORE (Dec. 13, 2012) – Effective Feb. 1, 2013, Danfoss has appointed the current divisional president of Danfoss Commercial Compressors, Leif Flojgaard, as new regional president of Danfoss Middle East & Africa. Leif Flojgaard’s career at Danfoss spans 32 years, during which he has held a number of global positions in China, Singapore and the Danube region, among others. Since 2010 he has been head of Danfoss Commercial Compressors division, where he and the management team have implemented a number of important strategic initiatives to increase profitability and investments in innovation as well as in developing the global compressor business.
He will be followed as divisional president by Noel Ryan, who as regional president of Danfoss India along with the regional management team has headed Danfoss’ ambitious growth plans in the region through the past year. He has worked for Danfoss for the past 15 years and has previously held several important global positions in Danfoss’ refrigeration and compressor businesses. Noel Ryan assumes his new position as of February 1, 2013 and concurrently joins the Danfoss Group Committee.
New regional president of India will be Ravichandran Purushothaman, who for the past 10 years has been responsible for Danfoss Power Electronics activities in India and in Asia & the Pacific. He will start as of February 1, 2013, but will continue concurrently as head of the Indian and Asia & Pacific Power Electronics.