Dev Micknaus

Product & Technology Partnerships Lead | Building the Shell eHDV ecosystem together with partners

Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

About

Strategic leader with 15 years of experience driving growth and innovation in e-mobility and electrification. I combine strong commercial acumen with deep technical and domain expertise to deliver tangible business results — including €20M in annual topline growth in EV charging, winning major tenders, building strategic product partnerships, and commercializing/operationalizing new technology-driven offerings. An engineering-trained professional (B.Eng) with a solid background in electrification technologies and digital solutions. I’ve held leadership roles at Shell and leading global power electronics companies. I’m passionate about collaboration, digital transformation, and accelerating the electrification of commercial road transport through innovative, scalable solutions that make a lasting impact.

Experience

  • Shell ()
    • Product & Technology Partnerships Lead - Shell Business Recharge Solutions
      Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

    • Business Development Manager - Shell Business Recharge Solutions
      May 2023 - Feb 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos

      Managing technology and strategic product partners, revenue growth in the DACH region, consultative selling of eDepot/semi-public charging solutions for heavy-duty fleets, techno-commercial planning of turnkey projects, leading the sales/tender process (incl. public tenders), deal and contract closing

  • International Key Account Manager - E-Mobility at Shell Recharge
    Jul 2022 - Apr 2023 · 10 mos

    Managing and growing the EU business with Truck OEMs as a new key account segment, understanding the customer needs, identifying scalable offers and collaboration models based on Shell‘s eDepot product capabilities (i.e. AC/DC chargers, CPMS, MSP and energy services), negotiating and closing EU framework contracts

  • Business Development Manager - EV Charging Solutions at Delta Electronics
    Jun 2018 - Jun 2022 · 4 yrs 1 mo

    Managing key account relationships (i.e. car makers, CPOs) and sales of EV chargers across the DACH region, deal closing including tenders and reselling agreements (for AC MAX, UFC, DCWB and custom OEM-products), aligning business plans and supply chains globally including direct interaction with production plants in China and R+D in Taiwan

  • Product Manager - Energy Storage at REFU Elektronik GmbH
    Feb 2016 - May 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Product ownership for C&I battery inverters (ESS PCS), managing the lifecycle of existing products/existing account relationships, driving the launch of new PCS products (e.g. REFUstore), developing bundled propositions incl. solution partner offerings, identifying key customer needs in global markets (DE, KR, US) and steering company priorities accordingly, building up a sales pipeline/suitable channels for new products and driving the deal closing

  • SMA Solar Technology AG ()
    • Product Manager - Energy Management
      Aug 2014 - Jun 2015 · 11 mos

      Product ownership for energy management offerings based on ennexOS (IoE platform), developing new EMS selling propositions and ensuring that the platform architecture is fit-for-purpose, driving the market launch/scale-up of new offerings in selected markets

    • Strategic Product Manager - Large-Commercial
      Jan 2012 - Jul 2014 · 2 yrs 7 mos

      Overarching view of the product portfolio/product development pipeline for the large-commercial segment globally, building growth roadmaps for products (incl. PV/battery inverters, control/EMS solutions) and driving the prioritisation and focus of the roadmap in an aligned way, providing informed decision-making guidance to the BU leadership team