Kaj Lindvig CSO A2SEA A/S Offshore installation

Kaj Lindvig is presently holding the position as CSO of A2SEA, responsible for sales, service and business development.
Kaj Lindvig was part of the group that grounded the company in 2001 and had the position as CEO until 2008.

He has been actively involved in the rebuilding of two ships into installation vessels in 2001 and 2002 and the purchase of two installation jack up’s in 2007 and 2008. His experience within the offshore wind is based on the company’s installation of more than 500 offshore turbines and more than 300 offshore foundations together with installations of met masts and accommodation platforms and utilisation of the vessels for O & M. Kaj Lindvig has been Board member of the Danish Wind Industry Association for more than 5 years. Kaj Lindvig has a management background from project oriented companies in the marine- and offshore industry.

Kevin Lambrych Ashland Performance Materials

Since 2002, Kevin has worked in the Global Wind vertical market at Ashland Performance Materials. Now stationed in Dublin, Ohio as Global Wind Energy Technology Leader and Vinyl Ester Resin Group Leader, he previously served as Laboratory Leader in Sauveterre, France. Kevin holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the State University of New York (SUNY) Environmental College of Science and Forestry, as well as a master’s degree in polymer chemistry.

Market areas Kevin has previously supported are anti-corrosion, alternate reinforcements (non-glass) for composites, vacuum infusion and resin transfer molding, underground fuel storage tanks, and high performance infrastructure applications.

Ian Cluderay VP Supply Chain Management Clipper Turbine Works, Inc.

Ian Cluderay joined Clipper in 2007 to develop the company’s strategic and operational supply chain support to manufacturing and the field.

Ian’s experience in supply chain management spans over 20 years, principally in the Energy & Automotive Industry. Prior to joining Clipper Windpower, Inc., he was a Supply Chain Director with Rolls-Royce Energy in the US & Canada and previously in management positions within Toyota’s automotive purchasing team in the UK. Mr. Cluderay is a certified member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply. He was schooled in the United Kingdom earning a Bachelor of Science degree, from the University of Kingston.

Eduard Sala Wind Energy Analyst Emerging Energy Research

Eduard Sala de Vedruna is a Senior Analyst in EERs Wind Energy Advisory Group. Eduard coordinates and provides competitive strategy and market analysis to leading developers and utilities in the wind industry on key trends and market opportunities. Prior to joining EER,

Eduard worked seven years as a market research analyst and management consultant, acquiring a large experience in energy.

Arnaud Bouille Director Energy and Environmental Infrastructure Asvisory Ernst & Young

Arnaud has eleven years international experience in the provision of M&A and project finance lead advisory, strategy and commercial due diligence services to the renewable energy industry.

Arnaud’s client base comprises governmental organizations, utilities, developers, infrastructure funds, private equity players, technology providers and other corporate institutions spanning all major renewable energy technologies. Arnaud leads E&Y’s international commercial advisory offering in the renewable energy sector and E&Y’s presence in the offshore wind sector. Arnaud holds a first degree in Energy and Environmental Engineering, an MSc in Renewable Energy System Technology, an MSc in International Business, and a Diploma in Corporate Finance from the Securities Institute. Arnaud speaks fluent English, French and Spanish.

Rainer Broering Managing Director GE Wind Energy GmbH & Supply Chain Leader - Europe GE Wind Energy GmbH

1995 Graduated Industrial Engineer from TU Hamburg

1995 –2000 Automotive Industry
Project Manager for Manufacturing
Program Manager for Key Customers
Plant Manager

2000 – today Wind Turbine industry
2000: Manager Logistic and Production at Enron Wind, Salzbergen
Leader Manufacturing Germany
2002: GSCM Leader Europe, GE Wind Energy, Salzbergen
2005: Site Leader Salzbergen, GE’s European Headquarter for Renewable Energies
MD Germany

Rainer Bröring also is Vice President of the Working-Committee Wind Energy at VDMA (German Engineering Federation)

Carlo Reeker Head of Membership Relations German Wind Energy Assocation

After completing his economics degree, Carlo Reeker (45) worked as a research assistant at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. From 1994 to 1998 he held the position of chief editor of the "neue energie" trade magazine for the advocacy group Windkraft Binnenland e.V.. From 1998 to 2000 he was employed in the public relations department of Enercon, a wind turbine manufacturer based in Aurich, Germany.

While at Enercon he developed, among other things, the "Windblatt" company magazine. For the past nine years he has been working for the German WindEnergy Association (Bundesverband WindEnergie e. V., BWE), where he manages the "Members/Engineering/Technical Committees" department.

Christian Nath Germanischer Lloyd

Christian Nath studied Naval Architecture at the Universities in Hannover and Hamburg. After his graduation he worked on a research grant as a Visiting Scholar at the University of California in Berkeley.

Since 1978 he has been working for GL on various assignments and since 1989 full time in wind energy. In 1993 the responsibility for wind energy within GL has been assigned to him. At the same time he became Chairman of the German Wind Energy Standardisation Committee. Currently he is holding the position of Vice President Renewables Certification.

Johannes Dimas Senior Manager - Renewable Energies & Resources Germany Trade and Invest

Johannes Dimas is Senior Manager at Germany Trade and Invest. As part of the Renewable Energies and Resources team, he is responsible for the wind energy industry. With a ten year career focused on wind energy, he has acquired extensive experience in the onshore and offshore sectors.

He coordinated environmental impact assessments and coauthored approval applications for the first offshore wind farm projects in Germany. He planned and supervised the first offshore drillings for a wind farm development in the Baltic Sea and was involved in the construction of the first German wind measurement mast at sea.

For Vattenfall Europe Renewables GmbH, he was responsible for the planning, construction and operation of their wind energy installations. In a joint venture with E-on and EWE, he led the Vattenfall team for the currently under construction alpha ventus offshore wind farm. Later he would become the project leader in charge of the high-voltage grid connection for the Baltic 1 wind farm.

Jan Hinrich Glahr Managing Partner GLAHR & CO

Jan Hinrich Glahr is the managing partner of Glahr & Co. GmbH, a consultancy specialized on strategic logistics solutions for the renewable energy industry. The company did several projects with the market leaders in the wind energy and biogas sectors.

After graduating from University of Marburg, Germany with a degree in business studies, he temporarily worked as a scientific assistant at the institute for general business administration and logistics. In 1997 he started his career as a member of the core team for CargoLifter developing the market plan of the company for lifting and transporting freight. In 1999 he was promoted to Head of Logistics of CargoLifter and became Corporate Development Director in 2001. In 2004 he successfully launched his own company, the Glahr & Co. GmbH, focussed on services in the logistic sector.

Raffaele Muscetta VP Global Sourcing & Logistics LM Glasfibre

A Mechanical Engineer with a Major in Corporate Finance (Iberoamericana de Mexico) and an MBA (ESSEC France) that spent the last 16 years in functions related to Supply Chain and Strategic Sourcing on a local, Regional and Global level. Focus on Lean Supply Chain and Lean Strategic Sourcing practices, BPR, value chain analysis and cost out programs.

Worked and lived in 7 countries during this period of time, mainly for two companies: Procter & Gamble and Schlumberger. Today, he is Vice President Global Sourcing and Logistics at LM Glasfiber. He also teaches Global Sourcing at ESSEC Management School in France.

Morten Keller Managing Director Make Consulting

Morten is the Managing Director and co-founder of MAKE Consulting and focuses on strategies, supply chain as well as commercial and financial aspects.

Morten has held managerial positions within business development, marketing and communication at NEG Micon and Vestas Wind Systems, and has been Senior Renewable Energy Analyst at Nordea Bank.

William Young Lead Wind Energy Analyst New Energy Finance

Having joined New Energy Finance in 2004 William Young has led New Energy Finance’s Wind Insight Team since its launch in January 2007. The team now counts major power companies, turbine manufacturers and investment banks among its key clients.

In addition William has consulted on wind asset pricing, US strategic market entry assessment, Chinese market development, and outside wind he has analysed US biofuel production, marine energy technology build-out amongst others. He now focuses on dynamics, pricing, cost and strategic development of the wind industry. Prior to New Energy Finance William was awarded his BA Honours in Modern History from Oxford University.

Dan McDevitt Vice President, Supply Management Nordex USA

Mr. McDevitt has over 20 years of experience in the areas of engineering, management consulting and supply chain management with companies such as Sargent & Lundy Engineers, A.T. Kearney and Andrew Corporation.

He has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
He has worked as an engineer developing power plant in the US, China and India. Additionally, he has worked to develop and manage supply chains in the US as well as in China, India, Brazil, Mexico and Europe.
Before joining Nordex USA last year, he spent 2 years with Acciona Windpower developing their US supply chain.

Andrew Bellamy Head of Rotor Blade Production Repower

Andrew has been in the industrial wind industry for over 10 years, having worked with a variety of leading turbine manufacturers in the design, development and production of large rotor blades.

Prior to joining REpower Systems AG as Head of Rotor Blade Production earlier this year he was technical manager for a leading materials and technology supplier into the wind turbine blade market based in North America. Andrew originally trained in Naval Architecture of Composite Vessels, but following this he quickly realised that the growth of wind energy and specifically rotor blades provided an excellent opportunity to expand from this and joined a small UK blade manufacturer as a development engineer. Andrew thrives on the rapidly growing and changing wind industry and the fascinating working arena it creates.

Mogens Nyborg Pedersen Global Procurement Siemens

• 2003 – Director Procurement, BONUS ENERGY
• 2008 – Director Global Sourcing, Siemens Wind Power

• 1987 – Business degree, Procurement and Logistic
• 1989 – Operational Management, Production CEDEP, France.

• Job role:

• Global Sourcing
• Establish Sourcing Organisation in India
• Sourcing Strategy

Leo Schot Head of Supply Chain Management Siemens

Leo Schot was appointed Vice President of Global Supply Chain at Siemens Wind Power in 2006. He is educated within mechanical engineering at the Institute of Technology in Rotterdam, and has later followed the Executive Development Program DASA and the GE Crotonville Manager Development Program.

Previously Leo Schot has worked for Fokker Special Products, Fokker Aircraft, Enron Wind and GE Wind Energy in different senior and executive functions. He has also been active doing community work as Chairman and as board member within different associations, amongst others the VLM (Logistic Management Association in the Netherlands).

In 2006 he joined Siemens Power A/S, as they had just taken over the small entrepreneurial Wind turbine Company in Denmark, Bonus Energy. As responsible for sourcing and production network in a growing situation (> 40% per year), he took part in changing this small company taken over by Siemens to become a global player. The elements of the challenge was cultural change, the introduction of Lean techniques, and new processes, global production network (2500 FTE’s), global sourcing (2 billion € in 2010), all done with great success.

Chris Ball Managing Director TMO Global Logistics

Chris Ball is the Managing Director for TMO Global Logistics’ operations in North and South America. Chris has over 18 years experience managing global supply chains for companies worldwide.  Chris was a founding director of TMO’s operations in the United States in 2003.  Prior to being named managing director of the group in 09’, he was responsible for TMO’s global sales team the past 5 years.  In addition to his tenure at TMO he also held positions with Wolseley PLC as Director of Strategy for North American operations as well as Senior Global Sourcing Manager, Distribution, and Supply chain management within the group.  Prior to Wolseley, Chris also managed sales and distribution operations for Georgia Pacific and Bank of America.  Chris received his Bachelors of Science in Business Management from Old Dominion University and a MBA from the University of Georgia.

Manfred Hader Partner Roland Berger Strategy Consultants

Manfred Hader is a partner with Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. Since joining the firm in 1998, he has worked in the Hamburg and Paris offices. He is member of the management team of Roland Berger's Global Engineered Products and High Tech Competence Center and head of its Wind Energy Practice. The Wind Energy Practice advises wind turbine manufacturers and suppliers, utilities and governments on strategy and operational excellence issues.

Manfred Hader has a broad international background, having lived and worked in Germany, France, Japan, the US, the UK and Italy. Before joining Roland Berger he has held several management positions in marketing and business development in the engineered products industry.