Panelist:
Michel Kurstjens
SIF Netherlands B.V.




Product Strategy Director

CV:

Michel Kurstjens joined Sif Group as CCO in April 2013. Since June 2020 Michel is Product Strategy Director.

Michel is a mechanical engineer who started his career in 1991 as design-engineer and took on sales in an industrial/technical environment shortly after.

Over the years, he gained a lot of technical and international sales experience, sales management and general management experience in various technical niche companies.

Aligning market opportunities and internal operations has led to revenue and profit growth of the companies he has worked for throughout his career.

Michel is the initiator of “Skybox”, the TP-less solution developed by Sif in cooperation with KCI.

In his position as Product Strategy Director, Michel focusses on the mid and long term developments in the offshore wind market.

In this way Sif’s product portfolio will evolve by an important deepening in the field of related product and services developments,
such as Sif’s role in innovative bottom-fixed foundation designs for deeper water (60-100m), (WTG) marshalling and logistics, decommissioning and circularity.