APQP4Wind Board of Directors' Vice Chairman gets re-elected

We are thrilled to announce that Kim Schmidt Petersen, Senior Director of Global QHSE at KK Wind Solutions, has been re-elected as Vice Chairman by the APQP4Wind Board of Directors and that he will continue as Vice Chairman for two more years. The re-election of Kim Schmidt Petersen contributes positively to APQP4Wind by creating continuity in the leadership of our relatively young organization and providing valuable insight from the suppliers’ perspective.

The Board re-elects the Vice Chairman

At APQP4Wind’s last board meeting in the middle of September, it was time for the APQP4Wind Board of Directors to elect its Vice Chairman again. Sitting Vice Chairman of the APQP4Wind Board and Senior Director of Global QHSE at KK Wind Solutions, Kim Schmidt Petersen volunteered to continue his vice chairmanship. To no surprise, all board members voted for his re-election.

We are therefore pleased to announce that Kim Schmidt Petersen will continue his vice chairmanship for two more years. Kim Schmidt Petersen is very happy to have been re-elected, and he looks forward to helping the APQP4Wind organization reach its goals:

I am proud to have been a part of APQP4Wind journey since it was a project and now that it is an established organization that just keeps growing. It therefore thrills me that the Board of Directors has chosen to elect me for two more years as Vice Chairman, and I will do my best to help our team further mature, develop and deploy APQP4Wind in the entire global wind industry to improve alignment and lower the risks.

Kim Schmidt Petersen, Vice Chairman of the APQP4Wind Board and Senior Director of Global QHSE at KK Wind Solutions

Kim Schmidt Petersen has been a part of APQP4Wind from the very beginning, and since APQP4Wind became an established organization in the summer of 2018, he has been the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors.

He and the rest of the Board of Directors have since then worked on developing APQP4Wind’s strategies to help the organization reach its goals. With their help, APQP4Wind has been able to gain 70 Company Members, sell more than 6,300 APQP4Wind Manuals, and ensure training deployed in 41 different countries with over 4,100 course participants certified from more than 1,000 companies.

The key to success is continuity

APQP4Wind is still a relatively young organization that continues to grow and expand its network of Board Members, Company Members, Working Group Members, and Country Ambassadors. This makes it essential to maintain continuity in relation to the journey we are on.

Henning Bach Jokumsen, Chairman of the APQP4Wind Board and Senior Specialist at Vestas Wind Systems, expresses that re-electing Kim Schmidt Petersen as Vice Chairman means that APQP4Wind will keep the continuity the organization needs to grow and further develop and mature the wind industry:

I am very happy that Kim volunteered to take another turn as Vice Chairman of the APQP4Wind Board of Directors. As a relatively young organization that has grown at rocket speed, we need stability internally, especially in a time where a lot of other factors are changing all the time. Kim’s re-election will help maintain that continuity to help reach our goals, and I therefore congratulate Kim on being re-elected and look forward to continuing our cooperation.

Henning Bach Jokumsen, Chairman of the APQP4Wind Board and Senior Specialist at Vestas Wind Systems

Valuable insight from both sides

The re-election of Kim Schmidt Petersen also means that the APQP4Wind Board of Directors will continue to be led by both Vestas Wind Systems and KK Wind Solutions, and the leadership will therefore still consist of an OEM representative as Chairman and a tier 1 supplier representative as Vice Chairman.

Having both an OEM and a tier 1 supplier representative in the leadership of the Board of Directors provides valuable insight from both sides of the supply chain, which is important to APQP4Wind’s mission to mature the entire wind industry, as General Manager of APQP4Wind, Kim Nedergaard Jacobsen expresses:

We at the APQP4Wind Secretariat are pleased that Kim Schmidt Petersen has been elected for another term as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors. His re-election means that APQP4Wind’s leadership will continue to have a tier 1 supplier representative alongside an OEM representative, which is important for us to be able to help further develop and mature the entire global wind industry.

Kim Nedergaard Jacobsen, General Manager of APQP4Wind

The APQP4Wind Board of Directors’ election of the Vice Chairman takes place every other year on odd years. Here, it is decided who will become the Vice Chairman for the following two-year term. Likewise, the board has an election to decide who will be the Chairman every other year on even years. To APQP4Wind, these elections are a fundamental part of being a democratic organization.