Gero Meinecke

Leading and managing our delivery into the SuedLink project. Supporting and enabling both our clients TenneT and TransnetBW as well our Jacobs team for successs in this lighthouse project for the German energy transition.

Leading and managing the sub-project cable sectional stations and fibre optics repeater stations as part of the SuedLink project delivery for our client TransnetBW

Coordination and management of interfaces within the SuedLink project for our client TransnetBW

- Business development, value selling, strategic marketing and regional strategy development for thermoplastic piping products, solutions and services for the global power industry - Driving a substantial and continuous sales growth of a 100+ MCHF segment sales volume - Leading and developing an international team of Market Segment Managers in focus countries - Leader, guide and sponsor for segment-oriented innovation and product development projects

- Successfully guided and drove several complex power plant solutions through their entire product life-cycles - Coordinated an overall annual product line R&D budget of 3.5 MEUR - Product promotion and sales support at several power industry trade fairs as conference speaker and via scientific and technology white paper publications, won Best Paper Award at PowerGen - Key expert for customer value driven product development, life cycle cost evaluation and business case analysis

- Executed several emerging technology assessment projects (e.g. ocean power, energy storage) - Advised Energy Sector board members and subordinate executive management on long-term technology, market and future product development opportunities - Actively shaped and contributed to the Siemens Energy market entry in solar thermal business - Expert for market, technology and industry landscape analysis to detect potential disruptions - Key expert for R&D program profitability and business case analysis

- Successfully managed and engineered new-build and modernization projects for power plant automation and I&C systems for various plant configurations - Disciplinary team lead and/or technical supervisor for 5-10 team members - Experienced head of site installation and commissioning project teams, international deployment - Provided Technical Field Assistance, project supervision and cross-cultural cooperation with international and local commissioning and engineering personnel

Participation in corporate top-talent “Siemens Graduate Program”

- Successfully completed reserve officer training and received officer commission - Direct lead and training of more than 40 soldiers as artillery platoon leader - Still actively serving today as reserve officer with current rank as Lieutenant-Colonel, assigned as Logistics Staff Officer, Artillerielehrbataillon 345, Idar-Oberstein, Germany

MBA and Master in International Trade

Automatisierungstechnik