Jaco Korbjin (Past Speaker)

Jaco has held several senior management positions, all at the interface of technology, commerce and contracting. During his 20 years career in the energy market, Jaco accumulated in-depth knowledge of the offshore wind market and a wealth of experience in managing project development, construction execution and operation processes Jaco joined Green Giraffe in June 2015 and is since heading the contracting team on several offshore wind assignments, including the Rentel (309 MW, Belgium, 2016), Deutsche Bucht (252 MW, Germany, ongoing) and Trianel Windpark Borkum II (200 MW, Germany, ongoing) projects Prior to Green Giraffe, Jaco took on the role as commercial director with VBMS from 2012 to 2015. VBMS is a Boskalis company, active in the supply and installation of subsea power cables for the offshore wind industry. Before that, Jaco was business development director of Blue H Technologies, an entrepreneurial start-up company developing deep water floating foundation technology for offshore wind turbines From 2006 to 2008, Jaco successfully oversaw the construction of Princess Amalia Windpark (formerly known as Q7) in his capacity as CEO. The project was the first offshore wind farm to obtain limited recourse financing and was built on time and in budget