Grant Walker

Regional CEO, Service - Northern Europe & Middle East Siemens Gamesa

Grant has over 30 years experience across a variety of industries and specialisms. His primary degree is in Chemical and Process Engineering. After graduating he joined ICI in July 1986. 

In 2001 Grant joined VATech with responsibility for I.T. and business improvement for the transmission and distribution business in a newly created joint venture with Schneider. Following acquisition of the business in 2005, by Siemens, he was appointed Director of Business Excellence for the integrated T&D business in the UK. In 2008 Grant was appointed Business Strategy and Excellence Director for Siemens Energy - North West Europe and United Kingdom to develop and implement a business transformation program for the cluster organization. In 2012 he was appointed Managing Director for Onshore Wind, UK and Ireland, where he oversaw growth of the business delivery processes to support 10 times increase in project workload and to develop order backlog by 20 times to exceed market growth.

In September 2015 he moved in to Wind Power service with P&L responsibility for delivery of service for onshore and offshore wind turbines across the UK and Ireland. In 2018 this region was merged with Northern and Central Europe and the Middle East. He has responsibility for service delivery for over 18GW of onshore and offshore wind turbines across 24 countries and over 2000 employees.

He is married with 2 grown up children and lives in the North Riding of Yorkshire in the U.K.