Siemens Gamesa Appoints Jorge Magalhães as Head of Technology of Onshore Business Unit

According to Siemens Gamesa, Jorge Magalhães is a seasoned executive with over 30 years of international experience in companies such as Philips, Motorola, Emerson Electric and Vestas. He is a Canadian citizen with Portuguese origins and has worked in countries including Canada, Costa Rica, the US, the Netherlands, UK, Germany, Denmark and Portugal. He graduated in Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto and received his MBA at INSEAD, in France. Having brought over 100 disruptive, innovative products to market throughout his career, Magalhães has a strong track record developing new technologies and turning them into successful and profitable solutions.

“It is an honor to join this great company which is ideally positioned to lead the wind industry. Siemens Gamesa has a long and proud history of leading the industry with products that set the standard for excellence. Siemens Gamesa 5.X is the most recent example of this - a product that is fast becoming an industry benchmark due to its unmatched rating and rotor size. I very much look forward to working together to expand Siemens Gamesa´ leading position by developing ever more cost-effective solutions that will continue to accelerate our transition to a more sustainable energy economy, less dependent on fossil fuels,” said Magalhães.