Clean technology firm PassivSystems has announced the appointment of Jeff Ball as its new Director of Service and Operations, as the company prepares for the launch of its home energy management product, PassivEnergy in Q2 this year.
Ball has more than 20 years in senior service and operations roles and joins PassivSystems from Ventura Outsourcing, where his main client was Volkswagen. At Ventura he had overall responsibility for Volkswagen’s National Service Centre, whilst he has also held senior service roles at Vodafone and a whole host of start-ups in the mobile and telecoms sector.
His appointment follows PassivSystems’ recent acquisition of Digital Living Limited, the energy consultancy with a focus on smart metering, compatible energy efficiency solutions and consumer behaviour around energy usage.
“Jeff joins PassivSystems at an incredibly busy but exciting time,” said Colin Calder, CEO, PassivSystems. “We are building a leadership team to not only launch PassivEnergy in the UK but all across the world and Jeff’s operations expertise with global, customer focused brands such as Vodafone and Volkswagen will be invaluable for PassivSystems in achieving that scale.”
PassivEnergy is set for its UK launch in May this year and aims to bring a new level of comfort and ease to home energy management, as well as reducing energy use and household bills. It works using sensors and actuators that connect to a home’s heating, hot water and electrical appliances and users control it via a web-enabled device that provides access from anywhere in the home.
It also has a unique ‘Adaptive Occupancy Control’ function to optimise energy use, which learns how people live their lives and automatically adjusts and controls energy consumption accordingly.
“PassivEnergy is different from other solutions because it is a home energy management product that is genuinely straight forward to use and makes a tangible difference on energy consumption,” said Jeff Ball, PassivSystems. “My ambition is to make it ubiquitous in households, so I’ll be working with our partners to provide seamless logistics for the end user at a product price point that makes PassivEnergy viable for everyone.”
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