Vesa Manninen

About

Experience

• ABB (13 yrs 6 mos)
  • Global Product Line Manager Wind Service and Business Development Wind
    Apr 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • Business Development Product Group Wind and Local Product Group Manager
    Apr 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

  • Global Sales and Marketing manager, wind converters
    2013 - Present · 13 yrs 6 mos

    Global responsibility of frequency converter sales. Member of global executive management team

• Sales Manager, wind converters at ABB
  2009 - 2012 · 3 yrs

  Responsible of global sales to OEMs of which each individual have purchasing volume of tens of MUSD. Member of global management team

• Sector manager, wind converters at ABB
  2005 - 2008 · 3 yrs

  Building globally new customer relationship when frequency converters where entering to wind turbine technology. Member of management team.

• ABB (11 yrs 1 mo)
  • Sales Manager, OEMs
    2001 - 2004 · 3 yrs

    Sales of electrical power conversion ( drive) products to machine builders globally for different industry sectors

  • Product Manager
    1999 - 2001 · 2 yrs

    Managing converter product scope globally, supporting sales for closing technical scope of deals; training sales and product management organizations in different countries and continents

  • R&D manager
    1998 - 1999 · 1 yr

    R&D manager for organization consisting of 30 persons covering electrical, mechanical and main circuit engineering and sw engineering