CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Olivier Fontan is the President and CEO of LM Wind Power a GE Renewable Energy business. LM Wind Power is a world leading designer and supplier of rotor blades for wind turbines. Olivier is a GE Company Officer.

Prior to this new role, he was the Vice President of Global Supply Chain for GE Renewable Energy. In this position, he was looking after the entire supply chain, including Manufacturing and Sourcing, of this $10b business.

Before joining the GE Renewable Energy business, Olivier spent more than 10 years in Asia as the Vice President Asia Manufacturing and China Sourcing where he developed, grew and lead a supply chain footprint with up to 30 plants and $5b buy. Earlier he was Operations Manager for GE Power in Hungary in a green field plant, dedicated to Gas Turbines components, he participated to set up, grow and lead.

Before joining GE, Olivier worked as Manufacturing Leader in the car industry and worked for the global sourcing organization of Alstom.

He is a Master Black Belt certified.

Olivier graduated with M.S degrees in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering.

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Ignazio Imburgia is the CFO of LM Wind Power. He previously held the role of Supply Chain CFO for two years, and has extensive leadership experience from GE, including as FP&A Income Statement Leader in GE Renewable Energy. Ignazio is a graduate of Financial Management Program and Corporate Audit Staff and holds an MBA from Bocconi University in Milan.

HUMAN RESOURCES LEADER

Izabel Cortez was appointed Human Resources leader for LM Wind Power in 2020. Prior to that, Izabel has worked in GE for many years. She joined GE in 2012 as the HR Leader for Energy Management in Latin America. In 2016 she moved to Renewable Energy to shape the newly created business and lead the Regional HR function in Latin America, across various P&Ls Manufacturing plants, Projects, Services, Commercial and Support Functions. Prior to joining GE, she spent 17 years at Microsoft where she held a variety of senior roles in Latin America and the US, with a specific focus on business transformation, integration and change, talent management, and organizational and leadership development. Izabel holds a Bachelor´s degree in Business Administration from FGV-SP with a postgraduate qualification from Fundação Dom Cabral.

VP, ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

Hanif joined LM Wind Power in March 2018. He brings more than 15 years’ experience and deep domain strategic expertise in technology, manufacturing and development of wind turbines and power generation plants. His background includes both onshore and offshore wind sector within multinational US and European industrial companies. He holds a Master of Science degree from Aalborg University.

VP, SALES & MARKETING

Dorte Kamper holds the commercial responsibility for our extensive global customer portfolio. Her international career with LM Wind Power began as a Key Account Director in 2010, before a 4-year period as our Commercial Director for the Americas. She has a background in Sales and Marketing with prior leadership roles in the automotive industry, has held various roles on industry boards, and has a Diploma in International Business from Aarhus University in Denmark.

VP, MANUFACTURING & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY

Bjarne Sandager Nielsen has a manufacturing and engineering background and has more than 25 years international management experience in Europe, India, Asia, US and Australia. He has had previous leadership roles with wind turbine manufacturer Vestas and during his time with LM Wind Power has led our Manufacturing, Sourcing, Logistics, AME and New Capacity.

HEAD OF ASIA OPERATIONS

Hugh Xu joined LM Wind Power in 2021 as Head of Operations, China, providing overall leadership to the regional production facilities. He later assumed alignment responsibility for operations in India and China. He has extensive operational management experience, including plant and supply chain leadership from previous roles in GE Hydro in China.

HEAD OF OPERATIONS, EUROPE & AMERICAS

Since Torben Mølby joined LM Wind Power in 2007, he has built extensive knowledge and experience in leading large organizations with a people mindset in Operations and Manufacturing. He was previously Deputy Head of Global Operations from 2015 to 2020, before being appointed Head of Operations, Europe, later adding the Americas region to his scope. Torben Mølby holds a Bachelor Engineer in Manufacturing Engineering and Management University of Southern Denmark 1993.

HEAD OF OFFSHORE

Alexandre Boulay joined LM Wind Power in 2005 as a graduate. He holds a degree in Materials Engineering from Université Laval in Quebec. He was the first employee in the LM Wind Power Gaspé plant, Canada and an active member of the Gaspé plant launch. Over the years he held many positions at LM Wind Power. Most notable, Plant Director and Head of Operations for the Americas region. In 2022, he took responsibility for our Offshore segment, aligning operations across multiple regions.

VP, GLOBAL EHS

Miguel Balbuena has an Engineering background and more than 20 years experience from the Spanish renewable industry. Before joining LM Wind Power, Miguel Balbuena was responsible for operations in the solar panel manufacturing company, BP Solar España, S.A

GLOBAL QUALITY LEADER

Hardik Raithatha joined LM Wind Power in 2022 as Global Quality Leader. He has extensive global supply chain and energy industry leadership experience, with a focus on operational transformation. He holds an MBA in Strategy & Operations from Emory University, Atlanta and an Electronics Engineering degree from Sardar Patel University, India.

LEAN LEADER FOR LM WIND POWER

Stephan is the Lean Leader for LM Wind Power. Prior to joining GE, he served 15+ years in Operations and Lean leadership roles for several global manufacturing businesses, such as Pentair and Westport. His interest in lean was sparked at Fluke - a Danaher company - and building an engaged lean culture has been his passion ever since. Stephan holds an Engineering Degree in Mathematics and a Post Doc in Supply Chain Management from the Eindhoven University of Technology. 

HEAD OF ONSHORE BLADE PROGRAMS

Francisco (Paco) joined LM Wind Power in 2010, managing quality at our Ponferrada Plant in Spain. After that, he became Ponferrada Plant Director for 7 years and, later, led our global ERPand Cypress blade programs. He was appointed Head of Onshore Blade Programs in 2022. Paco has an engineering background, complemented with his transversal functional experience while holding many different managing positions across different business in Spain for more than 30 years.

Services Operations Executive

Helio joined LM Wind Power in September 2023 as Services Operations Executive. He has more than 27 years of global engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, services, and leadership experience with GE and previously Alstom. This includes several roles in execution, operational transformation, and services organizations within energy industries. He is a Mechanical Engineer and holds a Master (DEA) in Thermal and Energy by Ecole Centrale de Lyon in France and a postgrad in Business Management by FIA-USP (Universidade de Sao Paulo) in Brazil.

GENERAL COUNSEL

Vibeke Dittrich joined LM Wind Power as General Counsel in August 2022, with responsibility for the design and delivery of the company’s legal strategy and support. She has more than 20 years international experience, most recently in her previous roles as senior legal counsel and group compliance responsible for Borealis AG. Vibeke has a Master’s Degree in Law from the University of Copenhagen.

Chief Information Officer

Bhaskar joined LM Wind Power in September 2022 as CIO. He has 23 years of experience working in Information Technology for Industrial Manufacturing and Services businesses based out of Asia, India, US and South Africa. Most recently he was the Chief Technology Officer for GE Gas Power. He has also been the CIO for Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Commercial, and Data & Analytics in past roles. He holds a PGDM in Marketing and Finance, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communication.

SENIOR DIRECTOR, GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS

Chandra Duraiswamy joined LM Wind Power in March 2020 as Global Communications Leader. He spent 15 years in Marketing Communications handling internal and external communications for global organizations and worked in multicultural environments in different roles. He’s worked with global brands like Capgemini, Tech Mahindra, Bercen Inc. in North America, Europe and India and worked closely with the leadership team in communicating their strategies. Chandra has a M.S., Chemical Engineering (US), and an MBA, Marketing (US) and Diploma in Journalism (India). Also, he is a PROSCI certified ‘Change Management Practitioner’ and passed the ‘Design Thinking’ course from MIT.