UK: GL Garrad Hassan Appoints New Head of Business Development and Sales

March 13, 2012

GL Garrad Hassan has appointed Christoph Thiel as its new Head of Business Development and Sales. Mr. Thiel will be responsible for managing global sales and business development for GL Garrad Hassan worldwide, working from the Head Office in Hamburg. He started in his new position on 1 March 2012.

“I am really looking forward to speaking with our clients around the world about what GL Garrad Hassan has to offer and how they can benefit from the synergies that are being created through the combined business segments of the GL Group.” said Christoph Thiel.

“We are very pleased to have Christoph back at GL Garrad Hassan. His breadth of experience and deep understanding of the market will be extremely valuable in helping us to strengthen GL Garrad Hassan’s global presence,” said Andrew Garrad, President of GL Garrad Hassan.

After studying electrical engineering Christoph Thiel joined WINDTEST Kaiser-Wilhelm-Koog, now a part of GL Garrad Hassan, in 1998, where he carried out load and power performance measurements on wind turbines. Mr. Thiel set up WINDTEST’s Spanish subsidiary in Madrid and was based in Spain for almost three years before returning to Germany to build the Business Development department for Measurements & Inspections at Kaiser-Wilhelm-Koog. After a short period elsewhere in the wind industry, Christoph Thiel has now returned to GL Garrad Hassan.

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Offshore WIND staff, March 13, 2012