Gosport-based Geo Kingsbury (www.geokingsbury.com) has appointed Ian Deacon as regional sales manager covering the Midlands and the North of England for the firm’s LPM (large prismatic machines) division.

He is responsible for business development, managing key accounts and supporting customers that use Geo Kingsbury’s four sole-agency lines of large machining centres — Burkhardt + Weber, F Zimmermann, SHW and Waldrich Coburg.

Mr Deacon has over 20 years’ experience in machining and machine tools, gained through working in various roles in the industry, from applications engineering to project management and sales.

Based in the company’s Warwick office, he works alongside divisional director Chris Hewitson, business development director Graeme Thomas, and senior applications engineer Steve Burrows.