Driving The World’s Energy Transition

Previously having worked at Siemens, Woodward and Stork, Juha has more than 20 years of experience in global commercial and business leadership roles as a service/solution provider and key system supplier to the energy, oil & gas and industry sector. Juha is a Belgian national and holds an MSc degree in Electromechanical Engineering and a postgraduate degree in Business Administration.

Lars has more than 15 years of experience in gas turbine technology and has held positions in the fields of aerodynamics, performance and combustion. He has 2 patents on gas turbine combustion technology to his name and has authored more than 20 technical publications on gas turbine technology. Lars-Uno holds an MSc and PhD from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

Toby has previously worked in senior sales management positions for Centrax Gas Turbines in close collaboration with both Siemens and Rolls Royce covering small and medium sized gas turbines in both the industrial and oil and gas sectors. With over 20 years’ experience in the gas turbine industry Toby brings extensive experience of the industrial gas turbine business to OPRA’s team.

With more than 20 years experience, Hilbert’s knowledge of OPRA’s product and his in-depth experience in customer service helps OPRA to understand customer needs leading to fast and effective assessment of service situations. Previous roles have positioned Hilbert well to stimulate a service-oriented work environment with an emphasis on quality, accountability and teamwork.

Previously having worked in the defense industry at Thales NL and in the Cooling Fan industry at Howden NL, Maarten has gained over 30 years of experience in operations & supply chain leadership roles as a reliable provider of high quality products compliant with customer needs. Maarten holds an Ingenieur degree in Technical Business Engineering and a postgraduate Master degree in Information Management.

Robbie holds a post-bachelor degree in Finance as Qualified Controller and has a broad knowledge of consolidation, project accounting and financial reporting in general to both internal and external parties. Robbie participated in the due diligence team at the time Energas acquired OPRA and continues to drive the integration of OPRA within the Energas company structure.

Frank has worked with Rolls-Royce, starting his career in the gas turbine industry selling controls systems and services for turbines, recips, compressors and generators. Moving to Ansaldo Thomassen, Frank was responsible for service sales for GE and Siemens heavy duty gas turbine installations. Frank has a degree in Industrial Engineering and Management. Frank is currently a member of the board of the Dutch Gas Turbine Association and the board of the High Tech Systems Park in Hengelo, The Netherlands.

For over 20 years, Monique has managed multiple complex international and multidisciplinary EU projects with a focus on quality, innovation and training development. Monique is one of the authors of the “Working in the Automotive Industry” book series. Monique’s background ensures a pragmatic and process-oriented approach in defining, monitoring and improving processes as well as aligning interdepartmental targets, making customer and employee feedback part of the production processes, and using KPIs to manage the OPRA organization.