Thierry Van Cayseele

Grid Systems Integration – Senior Logistics Manager GE Vernova

French Senior Executive with over 30 years of experience in Logistics.

I started my career in France in the raw cotton trading business and moved to London to join Grimaldi Lines as West & Central Africa Commercial Manager. 

Then I spent almost 20 years in Africa as:
Owners Representative with Grimaldi Lines in Cameroon
Area Head of marketing & Sales with Panalpina in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon
Logistics & Procurement Manager with Vergnet Wind Turbines in Ethiopia
Central Africa Chief Operating Officer with Damco in Togo, Benin and Cameroon
Senior Logistics Officer with World Food Programme in Cameroon
Vice President Africa Operations with Inchcape Shipping Services in Kenya.

I also worked in 2011 and 2012 in Kazakhstan in the Oil & Gas industry

I returned to France at the end of 2020. I have been working with General Electric Grid Solutions since January 2021 as Senior Logistics Manager, in charge of the Logistics of onshore and offshore projects throughout Europe