Vestas to enhance end-to-end delivery of wind energy solutions

Vestas announces a merger of technology and manufacturing divisions and appoints Anders Nielsen as CTOO to streamline operations and enhance project delivery by 2024.

Vestas continues to evolve as an organisation to reflect its customers’ and broader value chain needs and is today announcing the next step in this evolution. This step entails Vestas uniting its technology organisation (CTO) and manufacturing and global procurement organisation (COO) into one technology and operations organisation (CTOO). 

The united CTOO organisation will become the foundation for one enterprise-wide industrial system within Vestas and will be headed by its current Chief Technology Officer, Anders Nielsen. The united CTOO organisation is a natural next step in Vestas’ evolution of technology and product introductions, as well as manufacturing ramp-up, by simplifying interfaces both within Vestas and across the value chain.

CTOO utilises building blocks from its current global and regional operating model to minimise the impact on operations and safeguard deliveries and project execution in 2024. The organisation is expected to be fully implemented during the third quarter of 2024. With Anders Nielsen becoming CTOO, its current COO Tommy Rahbek Nielsen has decided to pursue opportunities outside after more than 25 years at Vestas. Tommy will leave Vestas by the end of June 2024, following a handover of his responsibilities.

Henrik Andersen, Group President & CEO, says, “Vestas has built a strong backlog across onshore, offshore and service towards the end of this decade, and we are today announcing the next step in our organisational evolution to deliver on our customer commitments. The united CTOO organisation will help accelerate ramp-up and industrialisation across Vestas and the industry by simplifying interfaces, fostering collaboration and strengthening our end-to-end approach. I’m very pleased Anders Nielsen has accepted to continue leading Vestas’ industrialisation forward, and I want to thank Tommy Rahbek Nielsen for his incredible contribution to Vestas for more than 25 years. In his role as COO, Tommy was pivotal in keeping Vestas running during the pandemic, and he has done an excellent job of maturing our COO organisation to a level that enables us to take the next step for Vestas’s benefit.”