Wouter van Wersch, Executive Vice President, President of Region & Sales – Europe, Airbus

Wouter van Wersch, Executive Vice President, President of Region & Sales – Europe, Airbus

Based at Airbus in Toulouse, van Wersch is responsible for driving the company’s growth by leveraging its presence, enhancing cross-business capabilities, building localisation strategies and optimising resources across the 51 European countries. He is also responsible for the sales of the Commercial Aircraft division in Europe.

His 28-year career to date has involved marketing, sales and general management roles for a number of multinational companies, in different parts of the world, including 15 years working in Asia. van Wersch started his career at Havas in 1994 in international marketing and project management, before joining Airbus (formerly EADS) in 1997 as Sales Manager Asia. In 2000, he joined Alcatel-Lucent where he was successively Business Development Director Europe, Sales Director Asia Pacific based in China and Country Manager based in Indonesia.

In 2006, van Wersch joined Alstom as Vice President Marketing and Sales for Northern Europe, based in the Netherlands. He was promoted to Senior Vice President East Asia Pacific based in Singapore and became Leader of the General Electric (GE) – Alstom integration Growth team in 2014. On completion of the Alstom acquisition in 2015, Wouter was appointed as President and CEO of GE ASEAN, before being named a GE Officer in 2016 and subsequently promoted to President and CEO of GE Asia Pacific in 2018.

van Wersch was appointed as a Board Member of the Singapore Economic Development Board in February 2018.

A native of the Netherlands, van Wersch grew up in France and is a graduate in Business Administration from the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Married with three children, he is a keen sportsman, especially field hockey, which he played at the highest international level.