Allegion has strengthened its team with the appointment of a new commercial director and senior quality manager.

Allegion has brought in Marc Lenaghan as commercial director to manage UK, MEA and Turkey regions’ commercial activities, while Mark Yearby has joined the team as senior quality manager to drive quality improvements for the UK/EMEIA region.

Mr Lenaghan’s primary role will be to develop and implement growth strategies to generate sales and increase market share in the UK, MEA and Turkey, where the latter two represent huge growth potential in the construction and architecture sectors.

As a quality control specialist, Mr Yearby will take on the role of senior quality manager and will be focused on improving quality standards within the UK/EMEIA regions.

He will be responsible for driving quality improvement processes and managing relationships with Allegion’s suppliers, plant leaders and operations managers to improve the quality of Allegion products.