Sebastian Papapanagiotou

About

HVDC - High Voltage Direct Current ||| HVC - High Voltage Cables until 03/17 ||| OWC - Offshore Wind Connection: Platforms ||| (Digital) Substations ||| Offshore Wind Substations ||| Shore2Ship ||| Datacenter ||| Solar&Wind Applications ||| FACTS ||| eBus |||

Experience

• Hitachi Energy (4 yrs 10 mos)
  • Head of HVDC Sales Europe
    Jan 2026 - Present · 7 mos

  • Head of HVDC Sales Central and Southern Europe
    Oct 2021 - Dec 2025 · 4 yrs 3 mos

• Hitachi ABB Power Grids (2 yrs 7 mos)
  • Head of HVDC Sales Central and Southern Europe
    Jun 2021 - Oct 2021 · 5 mos

    HVDC - Interconnections - Offshore Wind Connections - Embedded DC connections - Back-to-Back - Power from Shore

  • Head of Sales & Tendering Grids, Power Quality and Service Solutions
    Apr 2019 - Jun 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    HVDC, FACTS, Substations, Solar&Wind Applications, Offshore Wind, Shore-to-Ship, e-Bus, Digital Substations, Datacenter, Export

• Consultant at International Energy Agency (IEA)
  Oct 2019 - Jun 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos

  World Energy Outlook

• ABB (7 yrs)
  • Sales Manager Central Europe HVDC + FACTS
    Jan 2016 - Mar 2019 · 3 yrs 3 mos

    High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC), High Voltage Cables (HVC) (until 03/17), Offshore Wind Connections (OWC),

  • Marketing & Sales Manager Grid Systems Germany
    Apr 2012 - Dec 2015 · 3 yrs 9 mos

    High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC), High Voltage Cables (HVC), Offshore Wind Connections (OWC),

• Project Engineer at AREVA NP
  2010 - 2012 · 2 yrs