Birgit Kredel
Strategic Client Partner and Global BU Head for Energy
A seasoned leader in the energy domain, Birgit leads the Global Business Unit for selected, large Energy OEMs and drives business development by leveraging a wide range of Quest Global’s engineering solutions for their various business segments as their Strategic Client Partner.
At Quest Global, Birgit focuses on bringing cross-regional and cross-functional teams together effectively to win crucial projects and to deliver top sales performance.
Prior to joining Quest Global, Birgit served as the Corporate VP for Siemens One and Sales Excellence. In her 24- year career stint with Siemens, Birgit held various senior leadership positions such as Head of Oil & Gas & Power Utilities for Siemens, APAC and SVP for Smart Cities & Urban Development. She is a graduate of the Siemens Advanced Leadership Program. She is also member of the supervisory board of Green City AG, a highly innovative clean energy company.
Birgit holds a Master’s Degree in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Paderborn with scholarships from St. Olaf College and Pacific Lutheran University, USA.
Manoj Vivek
Director & CoE Leader - Energy
A specialist in Operation Technology (OT), Manoj Vivek is a recognized business transformation leader in the engineering services space across multiple domains like Power T&D, Smart Grid, Power Generation and O&G.
With an industry experience of 35 years, Manoj has conceptualized, developed and led several innovative and business-critical technology solutions for Quest Global. Over the years, his passion for leveraging the latest technologies and solutions to resolve client challenges, enable new business models and create new revenue streams remains constant.
Till date, more than 10 of his articles based on Power & Smart Grid, Industrial Automation, Engineering Services Outsourcing have been published in leading industry journals. Manoj has also represented Quest Global in India Smart Grid Forum(ISGF) and SEMI and is now actively involved in building OPAS-based next-generation control systems.
Prior to joining Quest Global, Manoj was the Deputy Director at CDAC, a premier R&D organization of Government of India, and was leading a team to build a series of indigenous control systems.
Manoj holds a Bachelor’s degree in Instrumentation & Control systems from the University of Calicut, India.