Michel Salsmans

About

An energetic, experienced, multi-national sales leader with a demonstrated history of working in the oil and gas industry as well as commercial markets. Skilled in setting up and managing new channel partners. Experienced in solution selling for large projects and performing contract negotiations for EP, EPC and EPCm scopes of work. I have been involved with project selling, doing pre-FEED, FEED and detailed engineering for many large projects in the Middle East and am familiar with the main players in the region. My educational background as Bachelor of Science in Physics allows me to quickly master technical details of different products. Having given many product- and sales trainings, I possess excellent presentation skills and can communicate at all levels of an organization.

Experience

• Thermon (Netherlands · Hybrid)
  • Sales Director Central Europe
    Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos

    Full P&L responsibility for Central European region

  • Manager Channels/MRO
    Feb 2021 - Apr 2025 · 4 yrs 3 mos

    Responsible for Thermon's partner network in EMEA.

• Chromalox (Full-time · 2 yrs)
  • EMEAI Heat Trace Director
    Oct 2019 - Feb 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Managing Director Germany
    Mar 2019 - Oct 2019 · 8 mos

• Head Of Product Management Heating Technology Commercial at BARTEC Safe.t Technology
  Aug 2018 - Feb 2019 · 7 mos

• Pentair Thermal Management (16 yrs 1 mo)
  • Sales Manager MENA - Direct Sales
    Jan 2015 - Mar 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Sales Manager South Gulf (ME)
    Jan 2011 - Dec 2014 · 4 yrs

  • Product Marketing Manager
    May 2003 - Dec 2010 · 7 yrs 8 mos

• Raychem (2 yrs 6 mos)
  • Inside Technical Sales Coordinator
    Jan 2000 - Mar 2001 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Customer Service Coordinator
    Oct 1998 - Jan 2000 · 1 yr 4 mos