Vincent Ozoude is the MD/CEO Transafam Power Limited. He was appointed on February 1st, 2021 to lead the newly acquired 966MW Power plant asset located in Afam, Oyigbo Rivers State. He will lead the team to bring in the transformation of the Transafam Power asset into a notable leading power generation company in Nigeria and West Africa.
Prior to this role, Vincent was the Services Sales Director covering the entire Sub-Saharan Africa for the General Electric Power Generation Services portfolio, a role he managed for two years. Vincent comes with 15 years of work experience in General Electric International Operations with vast experience in the various business segments such as services, operations, sales, and commercial segments of the business.
Vincent started his GE career as a Field Engineer to Project Manager and at some point, a member of the Field Engineering advisory board for Africa, India & Middle East while in the services arm of the business. He later moved on to the operations arm to become the Sub Sahara Africa Repair Service Manager and later moved to the Sales, Commercial arm where he rose to become the Sub-Saharan Africa Sales Director covering nearly 300 Gas Turbine installed base fleets across numerous GE customers in the region.
Vincent led numerous successful complex projects while in the GE service arm such as the first Gas Turbine modular change out (Flange to Flange replacement) on a Frame 7EA Train 1 production plant at Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas complex in Bonny Island.
He won numerous awards such as Everday Excellence Expertise Award from GE Global leadership, Clear Thinker Award, and the Imagination and Courage Award for always executing with integrity by the Power Services Africa, India & Middle East (AIM Region) leadership.
With over 20 years of work experience, Vincent holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from Enugu State University and currently completing an M.Eng in Chemical Engineering from the same Institution. He is a member of the Nigeria Society of Engineers (NSE), and Council for the Regulations of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) and is a Green belt (lean six sigma) certified.
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