Vestas has promoted Christian Venderby as executive vice president of service and member of the executive management team.
Venderby (pictured) joined Vestas in 2006 as the chief financial officer for the company’s North American sales business unit, before being appointed chief operations officer in 2010.
In 2014 he moved back to Denmark to become head of service.
Prior to joining Vestas, Venderby spent more than 15 years with Danish engineering company FLSmidth in management roles in finance and construction in Japan, Brazil, Egypt and India.
Vestas chief executive Henrik Andersen said: “During the last five years Christian has turned the Vestas Service business into a successful and profitable part of Vestas.
“Christian’s relentless focus and drive have paid off, and I am very pleased that he will now join Vestas’ executive management team”.
With 86GW under service, Vestas leads the market in onshore wind energy service.
Venderby said: “Five years ago, when we established Vestas Service as a separate business area, our ambition was to capture the full potential within service. Together, our dedicated team created the right strategy, products and capabilities that made Service one of the three key areas of our business strategy.
“We will continue building this function into a strong and profitable part of the business, keeping our ambitions, innovating with our industry-leading data, and building on our digitisation and multibrand opportunities.”