Christian Venderby has been appointed new Group Senior Vice President and Head of Service at Vestas Wind Systems A/S. Christian Venderby, who comes from a position as Senior Vice President Operations at Vestas Americas, enters into his new position on 1 June 2014.
Already a significant source of revenue and profit, the service business is becoming an increasingly important element in Vestas’ strategy to achieve profitable growth. Leveraging the world’s largest installed base, Vestas is therefore establishing a new stand-alone service organisation which will aim to capture the service business on as many of its new turbine orders as possible and to increase the current service contract renewal rate by developing higher value service offerings. With today’s announcement of Christian Venderby stepping into the position of GSVP Service, Vestas is taking the next steps in implementing a key element of its Profitable Growth for Vestas strategy.
Christian Venderby is a Danish national with 20 years international experience and a long history with Vestas. He joined Vestas in 2006 as the CFO for North America and was appointed SVP Operations in 2010. Christian Venderby has led many successful initiatives, while being involved in most aspects of the management of Vestas’ business in North America with a focus on strengthening Vestas’ approach to customer success through optimum safety, quality, and financial and technical performance. Prior to joining Vestas, Christian Venderby spent more than 15 years with FLSmidth, a global supplier of equipment and services to the cement and minerals industries, in various international management roles in finance and construction in Japan, Brazil, Egypt and India.
“Based on his experience, commitment and extensive accomplishments during his career, he is well qualified to build on Vestas’ existing service business achievements and we look forward to the many contributions he will bring to this vital business area, which is an important part of our new strategy, Profitable Growth for Vestas. Furthermore, the fact that we have been able to fill such an important position as this one with an internal candidate is also very satisfying for me to see” , comments Anders Runevad, CEO, Vestas Wind System A/S.
Press Release, April 15, 2014; Image: vestas