OFFSHORE WIND ECONOMIC FORUM HELiGOLAND

Daniel Günther, Jahrgang 1973 ist seit Juni 2017 Ministerpräsident des Landes Schleswig-Holstein.

Politischer Werdegang

• seit 2017: Ministerpräsident des Landes Schleswig-Holstein
• seit 2016: Landesvorsitzender der CDU Schleswig-Holstein
• 2014 – 2017: Vorsitzender der CDU-Fraktion im Schleswig-Holsteinischen Landtag
• seit 2009: Mitglied des Schleswig-Holsteinischen Landtages
• 1998 – 2014: Mitglied der Eckernförder Ratsversammlung, von 2003 bis 2010 Vorsitzender der CDU-Fraktion
• 2010 – 2016: Ortsvorsitzender der CDU Eckernförde
• 2006 – 2016: Schatzmeister der CDU Rendsburg-Eckernförde
• 2003 – 2010: Kreistagsabgeordneter, davon 2008-2010 stellvertretender Fraktionsvorsitzender

Berufliche Stationen

• 2013 – 2014: Geschäftsführer der Hermann Ehlers Stiftung
• 2005 – 2012: Landesgeschäftsführer der CDU Schleswig-Holstein
• 2000 – 2005: Kreisgeschäftsführer der CDU Rendsburg-Eckernförde
• 1997 – 1999: Mitarbeiter bei Kieler Initiativen, Kronshagen

Freizeit

Am liebsten genieße ich meine Freizeit bei ausgedehnten Spaziergängen in den schönen Regionen meines Wahlkreises. Gelegentlich verschlägt es mich auch auf die Inseln an der Nord- und Ostseeküste. Daneben verbringe ich gerne Zeit mit meiner Familie und meinen Freunden. Wenn ich nicht selber Sport betreibe und meine Laufschuhe anziehe, bin ich gerne als Zuschauer bei Sportveranstaltungen zu Gast, vor allem bei Fußball- und Handballspielen.

Professional Activities

1995 to 2009

Managing partner of an economic consulting company

Political career

Since 1986

Member of the City Council of Cuxhaven

1991 to 2009

Since 1986
Member of Cuxhaven Town Council

Since 1991
Leader of the CDU group on Cuxhaven Town Council

Since 1991
Member of Cuxhaven District Council

Since 1995
Chairman of the Cuxhaven district branch of the CDU

Since 1999
Chairman of the Stade regional branch of the CDU for the Elbe-Weser region

Since 1999
Member of the CDU Executive Committee in the State of Lower Saxony

Since 2001
Chairman of the Committee for Regional Planning, the Economy and Tourism of Cuxhaven District Council

Since 2002
Member of the German Bundestag

2002 – 2009
Regular Member of the Transport, Building and Urban Development Committee

2003 – 2005
Chairman of the National CDU‘s Structural Policy Committee

2005 – 2009
Leader of the group of parliamentarians from Lower Saxony in the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag
Deputy member of the Budget Committee

2006 – 2009
Member of the National CDU‘s Commission on the Development of Eastern Germany

2007 – 2009
Chairman of the “Condition of the railway infrastructure and ensuring efficient and safe railway infrastructure for the future” Sub-Committee

2009 – 2013
Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development with responsibility for railways, waterways, shipping, federal buildings, building law, planning law and public procurement law

Since 2013
Leader of the group of parliamentarians from Lower Saxony in the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag

17 December 2013 – 24 October 2017
Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure

24 October 2017 – 14 March 2018
Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture

Since 14 March 2018
Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure
Federal Government Commissioner for Rail Transport

Norbert Brackmann has been the Federal Government Coordinator for the Maritime Industry since 11 April 2018. As the Federal Government Coordinator for the Maritime Industry, Norbert Brackmann coordinates and brings together the Federal Government’s measures to strengthen Germany’s international competitiveness in the fields of shipbuilding, maritime shipping, the port industry and marine technology. He has been a elected Member of Parliament – German Bundestag since 2009. From 2015 to 2018, Mr Brackmann was a Spokesman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group on the                    Budget Committee.
The lawyer has been working for NDR in Hamburg since 1982 (currently on leave of absence); initially as an advisor to the Radio Programme Director, from 1985 to 2000 as Head of the Radio Broadcasting Department, and since 2000 as Head of the New Media Department, which he had previously established as the Director-General’s staff unit. In this function, he was responsible for NDR’s Internet and teletext services, the ARD community facility tagesschau.de and NDR’s intranet. With his election as a member of the German Bundestag in 2009, he is on leave of absence. Norbert Brackmann was co-founder of Digitalradio Nord GmbH, founded in 2000, and was one of its managing directors until 2010.

born 9 August 1957 in Beckum, married, two daughters

Since  June 2020                    Senator for Economics and Innovation

• 2018 – 2020             Senator for Economics, Transport, and Innovation
• 2017 – 2018             Business consultant for innovation and technology
• 1992 – 2017             Siemens AG, Berlin/Munich
• 2003 – 2017             CEO Region Nord, Hamburg
• 2000 – 2003             Munich site, responsible for regional business in the Middle East

and Africa, various positions in these regions

• 1996 – 1999             Ruhr/central Germany region, head of the sales department
• 1992 – 1996             Munich site, responsible for the international migration strategy

for communication systems and for organising

and developing global account management

• 1986 – 1992             Nixdorf Computer AG, responsible for introducing

and approving IT and communication systems in China,

Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, various positions in Asia

• 1980 – 1985             BOG Nixdorf Computer GmbH, technical support for

hard- and software systems for midrange computers

• 1976 – 1978             Readymix cement works, Beckum

 

Education     

Degree in computer science at the B.I.B. International College Paderborn

Apprenticeship as a high-voltage electrician

 

Honorary offices and other positions        

Hamburgische Investitions- und Förderbank, public law institution, member of the advisory board

Hamburg Innovation Port, chairman of the advisory board

HASPA Finanzholding, member of the board of trustees

Nordmetall-Stiftung, member of the executive board

Hamburg University of Technology, member of the university council

Association for the Promotion of the Renewable Energy Hamburg Cluster, chairman of the executive board

Since June 28, 2017, Dr. Thilo Rohlfs State Secretary in the Ministry of Economy, Transport, Labor, Technology and Tourism of Schleswig-Holstein. He is a doctor of law. After starting his career in a law firm in Kiel in 2012, he will be working as the head of the Department of the Environment, Local and Regulatory Affairs in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde. In 2016, he is appointed judge at the Schleswig-Holstein Administrative Court and works in the areas of police and regulatory law as well as traffic law. He was born on September 18, 1979 in Eckernförde, is married and has two children.

Jochen Homann has been President of the Bundesnetzagentur in Bonn since 1 March 2012. Prior to this, he was responsible as State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology for energy policy, industrial policy and technology policy.

Kerstin Andreae has been the Chairwoman of the General Executive Management Board of German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) since November 2019. She studied economics at the University of Freiburg and started her political career as member of the Municipal Council of Freiburg in 1999. In 2002 Kerstin Andreae was first elected Member of the German Bundestag for the constituency of Freiburg. From then on, she was Member of the German Parliament for 17 years, holding various positions within the Alliance 90/The Greens Parliamentary Group. Among others, she was the economic policy spokesperson and vice-chair of the parliamentary group, responsible for coordinating the areas of economic, fiscal, financial, labour and social policies.

Born at 30.09.1960 in Hildesheim; married; 3 children

Extended secondary education I. 1978 Training as a chemical laboratory assistant.

1982/83 Military service with the 1st Medical Battalion.

After training, employee at the Kalibergwerk Siegfried-Giesen. Further training as a company statistician, 1992/93 studied at the Social Academy in Dortmund. From 1993 full-time trade union secretary at the IG Bergbau und Energie (IG BE) in Recklinghausen and Bochum. 1997 to 2005 industry group secretary for mining and energy policy at the IG Bergbau, Chemie, Energie (IG BCE). 2005 to 2013 Secretary to the Executive Board at the IG BCE head office in Hanover, responsible for social policy, co-determination, works constitution, migration/integration.

Since 1984 member of the SPD, member of the council of the municipality of Giesen, deputy chairman of the SPD sub-district of Hildesheim. Member of IG BCE, AWO, association „Mach meinen Kumpel nicht an“, president of the German-French partnership Chabanais-Giesen e.V.

Since 2013 Member of the German Bundestag.

Memberships of the German Bundestag:

• Committee for Economics and Energy, full member
• Speaker of the SPD parliamentary group’s working group on economy and energy
• Parliamentary Advisory Council for Sustainable Development, full member
• Committee on Health, substitute Member

Board of Trustees Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Management, full member

since april 2018 Philippe Kavafyan is Chief Executive Officer of MHI Vestas. Most recently, Philippe has been Director in the Power Division of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in France.

Joined the company in 2008 and became a member of Ørsted´s Executive Committee in 2018. 2016-2018 – Ørsted Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer in Wind Power and Head of Market & Project Development

Since October 2019 Sven Utermöhlen is COO Offshore Wind and Member of the Board of RWE Renewables. From April 2017 to September 2019, Sven Utermöhlen was COO and member of the Board of E.ON Climate & Renewables GmbH. He was responsible for E.ON’s entire Offshore Wind business, the European Onshore Wind business, and for the company’s Procurement and Technology & Innovation activities. The main focus was on offshore and onshore wind energy projects in Germany, UK, Scandinavia, Poland and Italy and future developments in other markets. Prior to this, Sven Utermöhlen was E.ON’s Director of Offshore Wind from February 2012 onwards. In this position, he was responsible for project development, construction and operation of all E.ON assets in the offshore wind sector.

Sven Utermöhlen studied geophysics. Prior employments included positions at Royal Dutch/Shell in the oil and gas business and as a strategy consultant for the Boston Consulting Group.

Jonathan is the Managing Director, responsible for the creation and running of Iberdrola’s Global Offshore Business.  He is responsible for the development, construction and operation of a pipeline of over 10,000MW of projects in the UK, US, Germany and France and the development of project pipeline in other areas.  Jonathan leads a team of over 400 professional staff and has overseen the growth of the business from its inception to a business running an investment programme in excess of €14Bn.

Jonathan has also acted as Chairman of a number of industry bodies, including the Global Offshore Wind Health & Safety Organisation, the UK Government’s Offshore Wind Programme Board and the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult’s Industry Advisory Group.

Mark Helfrich was born on 8 September 1978. As the directly elected Member representing the constituency of Steinburg – Dithmarschen Süd, Mark Helfrich has been a Member of the German Bundestag since October 2013.

After obtaining his Abitur (higher-education entrance qualification) at the Auguste Viktoria-Schule in Itzehoe in 1999, he studied business administration in Göttingen. His first job after graduating, a position in the group internal audit department of the traditional Italian company Barilla, took him to Düsseldorf in 2004. Mark Helfrich returned to Schleswig-Holstein in 2005, since when he has held various controlling positions in the energy sector, including that of assistant to the management of natural gas distribution system operator, former Hamburg Netz GmbH.

After his re-election to the Bundestag in September 2017, Mark Helfrich changed his focus from the Committee on Labour and Social Affairs to the Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy. His priority issues here include all aspects of the energy transition, the so-called Energiewende, and climate protection. Mark Helfrich is also a member of the Committee on European Union Affairs, where he serves as the CDU/CSU parliamentary group’s rapporteur on European energy and climate policy.

Bruno Geschier is the Chief Sales & Marketing Officer of IDEOL and the Chairman WFO Floating Offshore Wind Committee. Bruno has an 20-year experience of international business development. Educated on both sides of the Atlantic, he started his professional career as entrepreneur and international business development specialist in the US and Canada, focusing his efforts on the construction, engineering services and natural resources industries.

He has then managed the international expansion, the foreign subsidiaries and the export activities of innovative and fast-growing SME in the consumer electronics, energy efficiency and renewable energy industries such as ALDES (leader in energy efficient HVAC and IAQ solutions) and FONROCHE ENERGIE (France’s largest private player in solar, geothermal and biogas power generation).

Multilingual and multicultural, he holds a Master of Science degree in Management.

With a background in law and economics, Manfred started his business carrier as a Consultant for Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young. He has worked in the Renewable Energy business for more than 15 years now and has held various leadership positions in stock listed companies.
From 2011 until 2018 Manfred was heading the Public & Regulatory Affairs department of DONG Energy A/S in Germany, today Orsted Germany. Orsted is one of the leading energy producers in northern Europe and the world market leader in deploying offshore wind. During his more than six years at Orsted Manfred was heavily engaged in the establishment and growth of their German offshore wind organization. He was supporting portfolio acquisition, Final Investment Decision as well as the construction and operation of a fleet of offshore wind farms. Between 2011 and 2018 Orsted acquired a portfolio of 8 offshore wind farms in German waters and took Final Investment Decisions on 3 German offshore wind projects with a total CAPEXVolume of more than 6 Bln €. Additional 3 German offshore wind farms successfully participated in the first German auction round.
As the company’s representative in Germany Manfred represented Orsted towards key stakeholders, such as politicians, senior civil servants as well as towards key authorities, Regulators, TSO’s and in Industrial Associations. He has established an extensive and active high-level network within the offshore industry. Since August 2019, Manfred is the Country Manager Germany for the Belgium offshore wind project developer and operator Parkwind N.V. Beside this role, he serves the World-Forum-Offshore-Wind as its Executive Vice President.

Since april 2020 Dr. Wei Chen is General manager of Ming Yang European Business & Engineering Center, Hamburg. He is set up the local team to support the growth of the MingYang business in Europe. From 12.2012 to 04.2020 he was Senior Project manager & Senior Engineer at DNV GL – Energy, Renewables Certification, Hamburg. From 02.2011 to 11.2012 he was Type testing engineer for wind turbines at UL-DEWI, Wilhelmshaven, Germany.

Education
2007 – 2011 University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany
PhD of Electrical Engineering
2004 – 2007 China academy of space technology, Beijing, China
Master of Control Engineering
2000 – 2004 Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
Bachelor of Automation

Steve Ross is the Data & Digital – Business Lead at ORE Catapult supporting a dedicated team based out of Glasgow.

After studying law and completing his legal clerkship, in 2002 Tobias started his career as an in-house counsel and Head of Risk Management Central Europe at IPM/Bureau Veritas S.A. In 2006 he decided to continue as an independent attorney at-law and consultant and founded today’s CARNEADES group of companies. Due to his numerous assignments with international projects for leading engineering and construction corporations (various infrastructure projects like subways or power stations), he joined renewable energy industry more then ten years ago, with main focus on offshore wind and grid connections. Tobias serves as Co-Chairman of the Working Commission on International Construction Law of the German Lawyers Association and is a lecturer for international construction law with the Brunswick European Law School. Since 2020 he is chairman of the WFO Dispute Board.

Udo joined Green Giraffe in 2015 and heads the Hamburg office.  Udo has advised on several sell-side and buy-side equity transactions as well as debt raisings and provided commercial contracting advice for projects at different development stages

He was the responsible project manager advising on the debt and equity raising for the TWB II offshore wind project (200 MW, Germany, 2017) as well as on several other projects, including Global Tech I (400 MW, Germany, ongoing), Bard Offshore I and Arkona. Udo recently led the transaction team advising on the development, structuring and sale of an offshore wind development portfolio of up to 1.5 GW in Poland to RWE and supervised an onshore wind portfolio valuation for a major wind turbine manufacturer.

Before joining Green Giraffe, he worked for 14 years in the export credit and infrastructure finance team of pwc where he advised investors, developers and industry players on several onshore and offshore wind projects as well as infrastructure and public private partnership projects globally.

Udo is 42 years old, married and has three kids. He holds a bachelor of business in finance of University of Technology, Sydney and graduated from Hamburg University in economics.

The trained architect gained his first professional experience during and after his studies in London, Karlsruhe and Hamburg, initially in the environment of classical planning offices. After a few years as a trainer in professional competitive sports, his current occupation began in the consulting business, first in the logistics sector, then later in the energy sector, among others for Vattenfall.
“Jimmie” Langham has been working in the offshore wind sector in various advisory roles since 2012. He has supported his current client RWE Renewables to date, among other things in the scheduling of the Arkona wind farm, the dismantling of several measuring masts and also in the areas of energy policy, strategy and project development.
Currently, the German-American coordinates his customer’s activities around hydrogen and offshore wind and represents the company in the corresponding working groups, e.g. at the BWO.

Jörg Singer has been Mayor of Heligoland since 2011. He studied industrial engineering in Germany and the USA. He subsequently worked for various companies in the high-tech industry. E.g. Of Lufthansa.

The promoted mechanical engineer is a company consultant, Member of the Board of BWO e.V., Member of the Board of Offshore Wind Energy,