rond Gärtner joined Magnora from Statkraft where he has more than 15 years’ experience from various management positions, including Vice President for Onshore Wind Power Development and Vice President for Technical Management in the Project Delivery Unit. He also worked several years as a Project Developer and Project Manager for onshore and offshore wind projects and gained hands-on experience from development, engineering and technical due diligence from projects such as Fosen Vind in Trøndelag with more than 1000 MW and the 4.8 GW Dogger Bank development outside of UK. Gärtner was also Development Strategy Manager in the Statkraft/ Aker Offshore Wind/ bp consortium exploring opportunities for Sørlige Nordsjø II prior to joining Magnora.

 

Gärtner started his career as a consultant in the field of renewable energy, energy efficiency and H2 in KanEnergi and SWECO, and has spent one year in Tanzania, working with small scale solar and bio energy solutions.

 

Gärtner holds a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and an Executive Master in Energy Management from the Norwegian School of Management (BI), IFP School and ESCP Business School (Paris).