CEO, LM Wind Power

Biography

Olivier Fontan is the President and CEO of LM Wind Power a GE Renewable Energy business. LM Wind Power is a world leading designer and supplier of rotor blades for wind turbines. Olivier is a GE Company Officer. Prior to this, he was the Vice President of Global Supply Chain for GE Renewable Energy. In this position, he was looking after the entire supply chain, including Manufacturing and Sourcing, of this $10b business. Before joining the GE Renewable Energy business, Olivier spent more than 10 years in Asia as the Vice President Asia Manufacturing and China Sourcing where he developed, grew and lead a supply chain footprint with up to 30 plants and $5b buy. Earlier he was Operations Manager for GE Power in Hungary in a green field plant, dedicated to Gas Turbines components, he participated to set up, grow and lead. Before joining GE, Olivier worked as Manufacturing Leader in the car industry and worked for the global sourcing organization of Alstom. He is a Master Black Belt certified. Olivier graduated with M.Sc. degrees in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering.