Dr. Christoph Wiard Neemann

R&D & Innovation Executive | Renewable Energy · Offshore & Onshore Wind Power | R&D Strategy · Portfolio · Product Development · Digital Transformation | ex-CFO · Dr.-Ing. · MBA

Greater Kiel Area

About

Hands-on implementation experience in - managing a portfolio of agile digital solutions - business effectiveness improvements in technical areas (product development, innovation management, technology management, procurement of technical goods, applied research) - change management & cultural change in technical departments - eficiency gains and priority setting in innovation processes - combining business judgement with technical understanding

Experience

  • Head of Innovation and Portfolio (Business Area Wind Power) at Siemens Energy
    Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

    Heading an R&D function with the following tasks: Defining the technology strategy, roadmaps and technology portfolio for the global Wind Power R&D organization Managing R&D project portfolio incl capacity and demand planning Running portfolio of new product development projects for features and fleet topics Running major improvement projects for R&D strategy and efficiency

  • Siemens Gamesa (7 yrs 3 mos)
    • Head of Technology Management and Digital
      Jan 2023 - Sep 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos

      Heading an R&D function that manages the innovation and technology portfolio, develops digital innovation and manages the feature product portfolio, provides and maintains R&D development tools and governs the key R&D processes.

    • Head of Technology Portfolio Management
      Mar 2021 - Jan 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos

      Supporting and orchestrating the R&D teams in both Onshore & Offshore to develop joint technical targets & strategies, define technology roadmaps and achieve technical KPIs to reach our ambitious commercial goals. Valuing technical advances in commercial terms.

    • Chief Digital Officer, Business Unit Offshore
      Mar 2019 - Feb 2021 · 2 yrs

      Responsible for driving adoption of new digital technologies within the business unit Offshore. Identifying value propositions jointly with customers, quantify business benefits, and manage implementation until customer acceptance and take-over.

  • Siemens Wind Power GmbH & Co. KG (4 yrs 4 mos)
    • Head of Technology Management & Programs
      May 2016 - Jun 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Responsible for a variety of new technology development programs: Electro-thermal electricity storage (from concept to market introduction), managing the digitalization innovation programme for the company, managing the intellectual property rights portfolio in terms of handling invention disclosures, commercial decisions on filing and localisation; technology benchmarkings and evaluation of new technologies; technology scouting

    • Head of Strategic Key Account Management and Competitive Intelligence
      Apr 2014 - Apr 2016 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Heading a team responsible for global competitive intelligence and benchmarking projects, customer intelligence and customer strategy development incl account planning & value-based pricing tools

    • Head of Market & Competition
      Mar 2013 - Mar 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Responsible for a team doing market & competitive intelligence in the corporate strategy section of the Siemens Wind Power Division

  • Beiersdorf AG (5 yrs 4 mos)
    • Head of Global Research & Development Controlling
      Aug 2012 - Feb 2013 · 7 mos

      Responsible for Controlling, R&D-specific IT-Systems and related project management for global R&D, Quality Management and Supply Chain Technologies. Interested in Front-End-Innovation Management, Business Modeling, Intrapreneurship

    • Head of Market and Competitor Intelligence
      Jan 2011 - Aug 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos

      Global Market & Competitor Intelligence for main Beiersdorf brands like NIVEA, EUCERIN & Hansaplast. Setup of global competitor monitoring. Harmonisation of quantitative market data from 70 different geographies. Supporting marketing, sales, corporate strategy and management board in deriving insights from large amounts of market data. Implemented step change in related IT-infrastructure from manual evaluations to professional data management systems and automated data handling and insight generation.

    • CFO Business Unit Make-up
      May 2010 - Jan 2011 · 9 mos

      Business phase-out preparation and co-ordination for global Make-up business for marketing, R&D, Sales, Supply Chain and 20 affected country organisations

  • Group Manager Technology Planning / Consultant Technology Management at Fraunhofer-Institut für Produktionstechnologie IPT
    Jan 2004 - Oct 2007 · 3 yrs 10 mos

    Consultancy of manufacturing companies on topics related to technology management: BUsiness process definition and optimisation, technology forecasting, change management in technical departments, price optimisations for purchased goods