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windtest north-america Promotes Falk to Chief Technology Officer
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ESTHERVILLE, IOWA (Feb. 11, 2020) – windtest grevenbroich gmbh announced today it has promoted Martin Falk to the position of chief technology officer of its subsidiary, windtest north-america, in Estherville, Iowa.
Falk has been windtest north-america’s senior engineer and manager for measurement and technology services since 2015. Prior to that he was the head of group power performance, loads and acoustic-vibrations at windtest grevenbroich gmbh in Grevenbroich, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany for many years and before that he was a project manager there.
As the CTO, he will continue leading the Loads and Power Performance Department, which he has built from the ground up since 2015, shortly after windtest north-america’s founding. He is responsible for strategic development of the department and the company, new product and service development and customer support. He also is the liaison between technical departments in Germany and the USA.
“This promotion acknowledges Martin’s leadership and the high quality of the service he has been providing our customers in North America,” said Monika Krämer, president of windtest north-america and CEO of windtest grevenbroich. “We’re fortunate to have him leading the technical aspects of our business here, and we’re confident he will continue to be successful in building and mentoring our technical team as demand for our measurement and other services expands. I congratulate him on this well-earned recognition.”
Falk holds a Diplom-Ingenieur, the equivalent of a master’s degree in engineering in the United States, from the University of Applied Sciences in Köln, North Rhine-Westphalia.
About windtest
windtest grevenbroich gmbh, Grevenbroich, Germany, has nearly 26 years of renewable wind energy experience having participated in several large projects in the U.S. as well as Europe, India, China and other countries. The company provides testing and technical consulting, including measurements in power performance, mechanical load, sound emission, acoustic vibration, grid integration and performance assessment.
windtest grevenbroich established windtest north-america in 2014 at the Sustainable Energy Resources and Technologies (S.E.R.T.) Center of Iowa Lakes Community College, Estherville, Iowa. In addition to wind energy, windtest north-america is able to serve companies in a wide range of industries that require precision measurement, data collection and reporting, such as manufacturing, aviation and all industries where test bench and field measurements are necessary.
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