Vestas appoints Felix Henseler as new technology chief

Wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has announced that Felix Henseler will succeed Anders Nielsen as chief technology and operations officer (CTOO) on 1 September 2025.

Anders Nielsen has confirmed his plans to retire from day-to-day management by the end of 2025 after six years as CTOO where he played a role in the turnaround of Vestas’ Power Solutions segment as well as the continued industrialisation and standardisation of Vestas’ technology and manufacturing.

Felix Henseler most recently served as chief executive officer of ZF Wind Power and will join Vestas immediately.

As CTOO, Felix Henseler will have full focus on ramping up both onshore and offshore manufacturing and strengthening Vestas’ offering within wind energy solutions and industry maturity. To ensure a smooth transition, Anders Nielsen will continue as an advisor to Felix Henseler and Vestas until end of 2025.

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Felix Henseler, Vestas’ incoming CTOO, commented: “The energy industry is impacted by the geopolitical shifts we’re seeing across the globe, and our ability to become even more efficient, competitive and scalable will be decisive to ensure affordable, secure and sustainable energy across the globe.

"With a long career within engineering and manufacturing, efficiency, competitiveness and scalability will be my focus and I‘m honored to become part of Vestas and meet my many new colleagues who are driving these efforts and ensuring we deliver on our customer promises”.

Anders Nielsen, Vestas’ outgoing CTOO, added: “The last six years have been some of the most eventful and valuable of my career where we have faced many challenges and I’m incredibly proud of what we have achieved together during that period. I’m pleased to handover a profitable Power Solutions-segment to Felix, because it took a lot of hard work from everyone in Vestas to achieve, but being part of developing and delivering the V236-15.0MW offshore turbine, introducing new onshore variants and industrialising our manufacturing setup are also sources of immense pride to me.

"I want to thank my many Vestas colleagues for the last six years, including everyone in Executive Management for the support and valuable discussions through ups and downs. I look forward to working with Felix and the rest of the Technology and Operations management team to ensure a smooth transition”

Felix Henseler will be part of Vestas Executive Management and report directly to Henrik Andersen.

Vestas’ Technology and Manufacturing organisations were merged into Vestas Technology and Operations in Q3 2024 with the aim to increase industrialisation within wind energy and strengthen the company’s end-to-end approach to delivery of wind energy solutions.