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GE names new LM Wind CEO

By: Tom Russell 14/03/2018 GE

General Turbines Windfarms

GE Renewable Energy has appointed Duncan Berry as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of its subsidiary LM Wind Power. He will succeed Marc de Jong, CEO since June 2015, who will leave the company at the end of April 2018.

LM Wind Power supplies blades, service and logistics to the offshore and onshore wind sectors.Since 1978, LM Wind Power has produced more than 195,000 blades corresponding to a capacity of approximately 84GW. It was acquired by GE Renewable Energy in 2017.

Duncan Berry was appointed to his current role as LM Integration Leader in September 2016. He is presently responsible for all aspects of integrating LM into GE following acquisition in April 2017.

Jerome Pecresse, CEO, GE Renewable Energy: "Duncan has been leading GE teams and businesses for 10+ years, served as our LM integration leader, and has a strong rapport with employees and customers.

"Duncan, 49, joined GE Renewable Energy in 2016 to help define our business strategy for offshore wind, which ultimately resulted in the launch of the Haliade-X, and then immediately moved over to the LM Wind Power deal once it was announced in 2017. He's been working side by side with Marc and the leadership team ever since and is well prepared to take the helm. Marc and I agree that he is overwhelmingly the best choice to lead LM Wind Power in its next evolution."

Prior to joining RE, Duncan was CEO of GE Capital Australia & New Zealand. He was previously Operations Leader for GE Capital Americas, a $100BN mid-market lender, responsible for all operations activities across twelve business units in the US, Canada & Mexico. This followed a period as CEO of GE Money Home Lending, a leading specialist lender in the UK with assets of $15 BN. Duncan has a degree in history from Oxford University, an MBA from INSEAD and is a UK Chartered Accountant.

"LM Wind Power is a critical part of GE Renewable Energy's growth strategy and I want to thank Marc de Jong for his outstanding leadership of this team. Under Marc's guidance the business has grown stronger and is focused on delivering future success together with GE and all its external customers. We are committed to a smooth transition and to continuing Marc's legacy of high performance and customer focus as we continue to lead GE's evolution in the energy transition," added Jerome.

GE Renewable Energy recently unveiled its plan to develop its largest, most powerful offshore wind turbine to date, the Haliade-X. Featuring a 12MW direct drive generator and a gross capacity factor of 63% the Haliade-X will produce 45% more energy than any other offshore turbine available, according to GE. LM Wind Power will manufacture the 107m long blades which will be the longest offshore blades to date; longer than the size of a soccer field.

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