Mr David Dossett (BEAMA, UK) - President

 

Mr David Dossett MBE B.Sc. MIET is Senior Advisor to the President and Chief Executive of BEAMA, the British Association for the Electrical Industry. He was previously Executive Chairman of BEAMA and Director of BEAMA Installation, the trade association in the UK for manufacturers of electrical installation equipment. He has also held the Chairs of ORGALIME, the European Association for the Engineering Industry, and the UK Electrical Safety Council. A chartered engineer with experience in the electricity supply industry and the oil industry as well as manufacturing, he has 25 years experience in international standardization. Mr Dossett was elected CENELEC Vice President in 2007 and Vice President Finance in 2008, and was elected President of CENELEC in November 2009. He was awarded the MBE by the Queen in 2011 for services to the Electrical Manufacturing industry.

Mr Tore Trondvold (NEK, Norway) - President Elect

Mr Tore Trondvold is a Chartered Engineer who graduated from the Norwegian Institute of Technology. He has held numerous positions within the Siemens system, thereby acquiring extensive experience in a broad spectrum of activities before becoming Managing Director of the NEK – the Norwegian Electrotechnical Committee – from 2003 to 2010. In this capacity, he was the Permanent Delegate of Norway to the CENELEC Technical Board. He is also a Member of the IEC Council Board. Mr Trondvold was elected CENELEC President Elect in June 2011 and will take office as CENELEC President in January 2013.

Mr Doede Bakker (FME-CWM, Netherlands) - Vice-President Policy

 

Mr Doede Bakker B.Sc. is Manager Regulation, Standardisation & Certification of Association FME-CWM, the Netherlands association of enterprises in the technological industry. He is an electrical engineer with experience in the electricity supply, electrical industry and product legislation and has 25 years experience in international standardisation. Mr Bakker was elected Board Member and Vice-President for CENELEC in June 2010 and started in January 2011.

Mr Claude Breining (Schneider Electric, France) - Vice-President Finance

 

Mr Claude Breining is Senior Vice-President Standardisation Strategy and European Affairs at Schneider Electric and holds numerous positions in standardisation: Member of the Board at UTE and at AFNOR, member of the French Standardisation Coordination and Steering Committee (CCPN) and Member of the Market Strategy Board at IEC. Mr Breining was elected CENELEC Vice-President Finance in June 2009.

Mr Carlo Masetti (CEI, Italy) - Vice-President Technical

 

Mr Carlo Masetti is currently Senior Advisor at CEI (Italian Electrotechnical Committee). He has broad experience in European and International Standardisation having served in the past as Italian Permanent Delegate in the CENELEC Technical Board and as Italian Member in the IEC Standardisation Management Board. He is a Registered Engineer in Italy. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rome and a Master Degree in the same subject from McGill University in Montreal. Mr Masetti was elected CENELEC Vice-President in June 2009.

Mr Ivelin Burov (BDS, Bulgaria) - Board Member

 

Mr. Ivelin Burov has been Chairman of the Managing Board, Bulgarian Institute for Standardization (BDS) since 2006. An electrotechnical engineer by education, he is the national representative in IEC. Mr. Burov was elected CENELEC Board Member in June 2009.

Mr Brian Cunningham (NSAI, formerly ETCI, Ireland) - Board Member

 

Mr Brian Cunningham is an independent Standards Consultant. He was formerly Head of Secretariat at the Electro-Technical Council of Ireland (ETCI), Manager Standards Development and a former Member of the Board of Directors at the National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI). He has been the Irish Permanent Delegate to the CENELEC Technical Board since 1994 and to the CEN Technical Board since 2002 until stepping down in 2012. He has specialised in energy conservation in industry and has also carried out energy conservation projects for UNIDO in Tanzania, Thailand and the Philippines. He is a Chartered Electrical Engineer (C. Eng.) and a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (FIET). He has degrees in both Electrical Engineering and Economics, and holds Postgraduate Diplomas in Business Studies and Computer Science. Mr Cunningham was first elected CENELEC Board Member in November 2008.

Mr Haimo Huhle (ZVEI, Germany) - Board Member

 

Mr Haimo Huhle is head of the department Technical Legislation and Standardisation of ZVEI – German Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association. Since his graduation as electrical engineer he has worked in industry in the development and design of professional electrotechnical products and in the production planning for the manufacturing of such products. In his work for the manufacturers' association since 1996 h has acquired a comprehensive knowledge in European technical legislation and the use of the associated standards. He is member of IEC/ACOS and of the Technical Advisory Board of DKE as well as the Technical Coordination Committee of ORGALIME. Mr Huhle was elected Board Member of CENELEC in 2010.

Mr Jesper Jerlang (DS, Denmark) - Board Member

 

Mr Jesper Jerlang has been the Director of Standardisation at Danish Standards since 2006. He joined Danish Standards in 1998, where he has held various positions including responsibility for Danish mirror committees, European working groups and for the electrotechnical sector within DS. He was a member of IEC / SMB between 2004 and 2006 and has been a Board Member of CEN since 2008. Mr. Jerlang holds a Master's degree in technical and socio-economic planning from the University of Roskilde in Denmark and an executive MBA from Copenhagen Business School. Mr Jerlang was elected CENELEC Board Member in 2008.

Mr Pambos Kammas (CYS, Cyprus) - Board Member

 

Mr Pambos Kammas, MBA, is the Director of Standardisation at the Cyprus Organisation for Standardisation (CYS). Almost 20 years of experience in learning & education, services to SME’s, business excellence, certification, and quality in general. Involved in standardisation since 2004, he has acquired comprehensive knowledge of the European legal spectrum directly related to standardisation, accreditation and conformity assessment with quality/audit experience. Since 2006 Mr Kammas has represented CYS in the Administrative and Technical Boards of CEN & CENELEC, and participated actively in the pan-European efforts for reforming the European Standardisation System. Mr Kammas was elected Board Member of CENELEC in June 2010.

Mr Priit Kikas (EVS, Estonia) - Board Member

 

Mr Priit Kikas has been Managing Director of EVS (Estonian Centre for Standardisation) since 2006. His experiences in standardisation date back to 2001, when he was responsible for coordinating quality infrastructure activities in Estonia while working in the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communication. Mr Kikas holds a degree in Economics from the University of Tartu in Estonia. He serves also as a member of the CEN Board. Mr Kikas was elected Board Member of CENELEC in June 2011 and started in January 2012.

Mrs Maria Sandqvist (SEK, Sweden) - Board Member

 

Mrs Maria Sandqvist, M.Sc, is Director for Product Regulation and Environment at The Association of Swedish Engineering Industries. Before that she held a position at the Swedish Ministry of Enterprise at the department of Energy and Industrial Policy. She is also a member of the Board of Orgalime, the European Association of Engineering Industry. Mrs Sandqvist is also a member of the Energy Development Board at the Swedish Energy Agency, The Electrical Safety Council at the Swedish Electricity Safety Board and the Advisory Council of Swedac (Swedish Board for Accreditation and Conformity Assessment). She is a chemical Engineer with experience both from ministries and organisations. She has managed a broad range of issues such as standardisation, internal market for goods, product regulation, energy and environment. She has also represented Sweden in the Council when she worked at the Ministry of Enterprise. Mrs Sandqvist is a CENELEC Board Member since 1 January 2012.

Mr Gheorghe Tucu (ASRO, Romania) - Board Member

 

Mr Gheorghe Tucu is Managing Director at AB Energy Romania S.R.L. He has been President of the Romanian Standards Association (ASRO) since 2003 and Head of Delegation for CENELEC since 2006. He holds a Master's degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from the Politehnica University of Bucharest. Mr Tucu was elected CENELEC Board Member in 2008.

 

Mr Francisco Javier Verdera Marí (AENOR, Spain) - Board Member

 

Mr Francisco Javier Verdera Marí is an electromechanical engineer from the Jesuits Engineering University 'Pontificia Comillas de Madrid', with a specialisation in Industrial Management and Organisation and Executive Master in Business Administration from the 'Instituto de Empresa' of Madrid. He has worked for the Spanish Association for Standardisation and Certification (AENOR), the Spanish member of IEC, ISO, CENELEC and CEN for more than sixteen years, where he has developed different technical and managerial activities, dealing with national, regional or international standardisation. He then successfully held the positions of respectively Deputy Manager, Director of Standardisation and then Director of International Relations and Co-operation of AENOR, being responsible for the international policy of the association in standardisation, as well as maintaining institutional relations with the corresponding national, regional and international standards organisations. Mr Verdera Marí has been Secretary of the Spanish electrotechnical committee of IEC and CENELEC for more than fifteen years. He is an alternate member of the CEN Board. Mr Verdera Marí was elected CENELEC Board Member in June 2011 and started in January 2012.