Irina Lucke

CEO

Irina Lucke is the Managing Director of Omexom Renewable Energies Offshore and Head of the Offshore Division. She has been involved in the offshore industry since 2006. It all started with Germany's first offshore wind farm, Alpha Ventus. In 2010, she took over the technical project management for the Riffgat offshore wind farm and in 2013 the technical management of EWE Offshore Service & Solution GmbH (EWE OSS), a service provider for project development and maintenance of wind farms. In addition, Lucke took over the management of the Trianel Borkum II offshore wind farm in 2015. In December 2020, EWE OSS was sold to VINCI Energies Deutschland. Omexom Offshore has technically planned and implemented three offshore wind farms and is responsible for the technical management of around 4.5 GW in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium.

Till Frohloff

deputy chairman of the board

Till Frohloff is an experienced managing director with extensive expertise in technical operations management and occupational safety. He is also the chairman of the Operations Committee in the BWO. Since March 2023, he has been Managing Director of Nordsee One GmbH, where he is responsible for occupational safety, all operations and asset management. Previously, he worked as O&M Manager at Northland Power Europe GmbH, where he headed the management of operations, maintenance and monitoring of the Nordsee One and Deutsche Bucht offshore wind farms and, following the insolvency of the wind turbine manufacturer Senvion, was responsible for full service for the Nordsee One wind farm as site manager.

He started his career in 2008 at RWE GmbH, where he developed the O&M strategy for Nordsee One, negotiated and implemented maintenance contracts. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering from Leibniz University Hannover.

Jost Backhaus

deputy chairman of the board

Jost Backhaus is Managing Director of Steelwind GmbH in Nordenham. He has many years of experience in the field of offshore wind energy and renewable energies. The trained industrial engineer has been working at Steelwind in sales and project management since 2023 and contributes to the value chain with sustainable steel. Previously, Backhaus worked as COO on the board of Enercon GmbH. Here, his responsibilities were particularly in the restructuring of the supply chain. His other professional positions included management positions in production companies in the wind industry. He is also publicly committed to achieving the offshore expansion goals and appears as a speaker at trade fairs and congresses.

Jörg Kubitza

CFO

Jörg Kubitza has been Managing Director of Ørsted Germany GmbH and Country Manager of Ørsted in Germany since April 2021. Before joining Ørsted, Kubitza was Managing Director of the German renewable energy business at the Czech energy supplier CEZ A/S until the end of 2019, where he was also instrumental in setting up the renewable energy division in Germany and France as Head of Strategy. He was able to build up his expertise in the field of offshore wind power in particular during his time at Mitsubishi Power Systems and later at MHI Vestas, where he was responsible for managing the strategy and corporate development department from 2014 to 2016 and supported the successful expansion in Germany and APAC. Kubitza is a qualified lawyer, lawyer and mediator.