WINDPOWER Conference & Exhibition 2019

Vikas Anand
General Manager of Onshore Wind
GE Renewable Energy


Vikas oversees the strategic and operational execution of Onshore Wind activities in the Americas Region of GE Renewable Energy. This includes sales, business development, project execution, fleet reliability and services operations. Made up of North America and Latin America, the Americas Region consists of 29,000+ turbines with a capacity of over 50GW. Prior to his current role, he was the Chief Financial Officer of Onshore Wind at GE Renewable Energy. In this role, Vikas helped guide the business through global growth and transformation initiatives. He oversaw financial activities within the accounting and controllership, financial planning and analysis, tax and treasury departments. Before moving to GE Renewable Energy in 2016, he was the Chief Financial Officer for Energy Financial Services (EFS) at GE Capital. At the time, GE Capital had ~$15B in energy related assets and investments in the U.S., Latin America, Western Europe, Asia and Australia. Vikas was a voting member of the Investment Committee at EFS, which was responsible for deploying ~$2.5B of capital annually to sectors including Wind Energy, Solar, Thermal and Oil & Gas Infrastructure. He would also help navigate GE Capital through an unprecedented commodity downturn in 2014-2016. Vikas joined GE in 2000. During his tenure, he has held multiple global finance and market-facing roles including Deputy Treasurer and Head of Fixed Income Investor Relations. In this role, he managed relationships with debt and equity investors including U.S. and European money managers, pension funds and Sovereign Wealth Funds. Vikas holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Columbia University in New York. He also holds a Chartered Accountancy certification from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors at the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA).

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