Tritium’s EU HQ Amsterdam opening in March 2018 with Manuel Fernandes second from left.
Brisbane-based EV fast charging tech company Tritium has announced three new appointments to its European team in response to increased demand.
Manuel Fernandes is Tritium Europe president, Ivan Soto becomes sales director Europe, and Chris Joor has joined from Yamaha as European Union region procurement officer.
The expansion caters for current and future growth in EV interest across the continent.
“Manuel has led the establishment of Tritium within Europe since 2014 and has been working in the industry since 2010, so he has great industry insight and understands well how Tritium can best help our customers achieve success in their businesses,” Tritium co-founder and chief executive officer David Finn says.
“Europe has been a very strong market for Tritium, with the Ionity partnership and our large installation base throughout the Nordics and the UK. Given Manuel’s contribution to our success here, he is the natural choice to lead Tritium’s future growth across the continent.
Soto brings more than a decade of experience in sales roles in Europe and was most recently with Circontrol where he held a number of roles including sales manager of eMobility.
Joor joins Tritium with nearly 20 years of experience from Yamaha, where he was a senior buyer for nearly nine years.
The announcement was made at the eMove 360 conference in Munich.
“The market is maturing across Europe and we are seeing an increase in interest in electric vehicle charging infrastructure,” Fernandes says. “This year we opened the Tritium E-Mobility Innovation Centre in Amsterdam to cater to this growth, and we will continue to add to our team to meet the market while continually innovating to stay ahead of it.”
This year alone Tritium announced a new deal to supply a further 120 Ionity sites with up to six of Tritium’s flagship Veefil PK 350kW DC High Power Chargers (HPCs) per site, bringing the total deal with Ionity to 220 of the planned 400 sites across Europe.
Tritium will also supply Veefil RT 50kW DC Fast Chargers (DCFCs) to new Drive Energi’s planned 2500 sites across the United Kingdom and it had a deal with Nissan to rapidly supply nine DCFCs to support sponsorship at the UEFA Champions League Final in Spain, is involved in the “Halo” Ionity charger concept to be rolled out across Europe and did a deal to supply Ireland’s first privately-owned charging network with DCFCs for up to 88 sites across the nation.
It has now provided more than 30 countries with at least 3000 chargers.
