Wouter Van Wersch, 47, is President & CEO of GE ASEAN, based in Singapore.
He has worked in a number of large multinational companies and has more than 20 years of international leadership experience in marketing, sales and general management. Of his entire career, he has spent more than 13 years embracing market dynamics and successfully growing power and telecom businesses in ASEAN.
He started his career in 1994 at Vivendi Universal’s international marketing department in Paris, before moving to Airbus as Sales Manager Asia. In 2000, he joined Alcatel where he was successively Business Development Director Europe, Sales Director Asia Pacific, based in Shanghai, and General Manager Indonesia based in Jakarta.
Wouter joined Alstom Power in 2006 as Vice President Sales for Northern Europe based in the Netherlands, and was promoted to the role of Vice President Sales for Northern & Central Europe in 2009. In 2011, he became Senior Vice President Asia Pacific for Alstom International as well as Senior Vice President Sales & Marketing Asia Pacific, China and India, for Alstom Power based in Singapore. In addition to these two responsibilities, he was also the CEO of Alstom Singapore and the Alstom Growth Leader in the GEAlstom integration team.
A native of the Netherlands, Wouter grew up in France, and is a graduate in Business Administration from the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Wouter and his wife Lorraine have three children aged 15, 13 and 8. He is an enthusiastic sportsman, especially field hockey, which he played at the highest international level.​
