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DO Online rounds-up the latest industry appointments…

Shamir UK

Russell Bickle

Russell Bickle has been promoted to general manager at Shamir UK. A qualified dispensing optician, Russell has more than 20 years’ experience in the industry and profession, alongside the past two years managing Shamir’s sales and marketing team as national sales manager.

The company stated: “Throughout what has proved to be one of the most challenging years to date, Russell adopted multiple additional responsibilities, going above and beyond what was expected to keep the company operating as close to full capacity as possible; all the while offering his colleagues support and guidance. Everyone at Shamir UK is delighted that his efforts have been recognised, and strongly believe that Russell will continue to achieve brilliant things for the company as the new general manager.”

Norville (20 20)

Paul Jones

Norville (20/20) has welcomed Paul Jones as national sales manager. Paul started in optics 28 years ago as an optical technician and worked within practice, initially as a technician, dispensing optician and then practice manager. Paul joins the company after 14 years with Hoya Lens UK, initially as an area sales manager and for the last 11 years as regional business development manager.

Paul commented: “When it comes to lenses I can be quite geeky, but I’m very interested in supporting our customers to be able to improve the lives of their customers, by giving them the best optical solution. I believe with the backing and support of our parent company, Inspecs, we can build on the heritage that Norville has – and enter into a new future.”

Steve Thomson

Heidelberg Engineering

Steve Thomson has joined Heidelberg Engineering as clinical director to further strengthen the anterior segment product development team. He will concentrate on the integration of data and images into increasingly efficient and effective anterior segment workflows for clinical practice. Steve has a background in ophthalmic imaging followed by more than 30 years’ professional experience in the ophthalmic industry.

He said: “Heidelberg Engineering has set extremely high standards for ophthalmic imaging to the benefit of so many patients across the world. I am excited to be part of this talented team and contribute to the development of Anterion and other complementary anterior segment solutions with the potential to enhance the biometric and imaging data that is so vitally important to clinicians and surgeons.”