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Anya Petrova joins Quantrex as Chief People Officer
Henrik Olsen
Chief Financial Officer
Quantrex has appointed Anya Petrova as Chief People Officer. Anya brings twenty years of experience building engineering and operational organizations at three of the world's largest energy companies. She joins at a pivotal moment as Quantrex scales its global workforce to meet the demands of its most ambitious development pipeline to date.
Quantrex today announced the appointment of Anya Petrova as Chief People Officer with immediate effect. Anya joins the Quantrex executive team with responsibility for talent acquisition leadership development organizational design and the culture of a workforce of forty thousand people across twenty four countries.
Twenty years of experience
Anya brings twenty years of experience in human resources and organizational development within the global energy sector. She began her career as an organizational psychologist before moving into senior people leadership roles at three of the world's largest energy companies.
Most recently she served as Group People Director at a major European utility where she led the people function through a period of rapid expansion that saw the organization grow from 18000 to 32000 employees in five years. During that period she oversaw the integration of four acquired businesses and the establishment of engineering training academies in eight countries.
Effective builder
Before that role Anya spent seven years at a global infrastructure developer where she built the people function from scratch following the company's listing on the London Stock Exchange.
She is widely regarded as one of the most effective organizational builders in the European energy sector with a particular expertise in scaling technical teams rapidly without losing the culture and engineering standards that make them effective.
Exceptional leadership
Astrid Lindqvist Chief Executive Officer of Quantrex said Anya's appointment addresses one of the most important priorities for the business at this stage of its development. We are planning to grow our workforce by more than 30% over the next three years.
That scale of growth requires exceptional people leadership. Anya has done this before at organizations that faced similar challenges and she has done it without compromising the quality or the culture that defines the teams she has built. We are delighted to have her at Quantrex.
The mission scale
Anya Petrova said she was drawn to Quantrex by the scale of the mission and the quality of the organization that has already been built. Forty thousand people have chosen to spend their careers building renewable energy infrastructure at a moment when that work has never mattered more.
My job is to make sure that the organization they work in gives them every opportunity to do their best work. That means the right structures the right leadership and the right culture to attract and retain the best engineers operators and builders in the industry. I am excited to get started.
Anya holds a degree in Industrial Psychology from Moscow State University and an MBA from London Business School. She is fluent in Russian English German and Danish and will be based at Quantrex headquarters in Copenhagen.
