Aloys Wobben Stiftung (AWS) and EWE have appointed Frank May as managing director for their joint venture Alterric.
May will take up this role on 1 April 2022 working for the onshore wind experts with headquarters in Aurich and offices in Germany and France.
The 55-year-old is currently managing director and chief executive for Western Germany at Actemium, a branch of the global concessions, construction and energy group VINCI.
May said: “Alterric is a highly exciting company with ambitious shareholders and employees with many years of experience, who have made the company a market leader among producers of green energy in Germany.
“The job as managing director thus greatly appeals to me and I am looking forward to joining Alterric and working with the team to shape its further course.”
May brings with him many years of experience in the energy industry and industrial plant engineering.
He graduated as a ‘Diplom-Ingenieur’ of Mechanical Engineering (RWTH Aachen) and earned his doctorate in Bochum and Turku (Finland).
In his professional career he has gathered vast experience in business management, in the strategic development of companies in the energy sector, and in joining together companies and supporting the cultural aspects of these change processes.
For several years, Dr Frank May was appointed as managing director/board member at Vattenfall, where he was responsible for the areas of disposal, district heating, decentralised solutions and energy generation from renewable sources on a national and international level.
EWE chairman Stefan Dohler said: “We are very pleased to get such a well-versed manager on board in Dr Frank May, who will work together with our motivated experts as CEO to build up Alterric further.
“The job involves bringing together the young company as a team to implement our ambitious investment targets with the public, politicians and society, thus making an important contribution to a climate-neutral future in Germany and Europe.
“We are committed to this path together and wish him every success.”
AWS chairman Heiko Janssen added: “His professional background in the energy industry and plant engineering and his extensive experience as a manager, including in the integration of companies and the associated change processes, make Dr Frank May an excellent fit for Alterric.
“He is used to keeping an overview of all the stages of the value-added chain and to developing international markets – several of which are markets in which Alterric plans to grow.
“At the same time, his roots are in northern Germany just like ours. I wish him all the best.”