Urban Keussen has been Managing Director and COO of NeXtWind Management GmbH since 2025.
He has more than 30 years of experience in the energy sector. During his 20 years at E.ON, he was most recently Technical Managing Director responsible for E.ON Netz's transmission grid and was ultimately responsible for E.ON SE's innovation and corporate venture capital activities until 2014.
From 2014 to 2018, he was CEO of Germany's largest transmission system operator, TenneT TSO GmbH, and Deputy CEO of the Dutch company TenneT Holding. During this period, infrastructure investments of more than €10 billion were made on land and at sea.
Urban Keussen then took on the role of Chief Technical Officer at the energy company EWE AG. There, he was responsible for the electricity and gas infrastructure, the storage business with batteries and gas caverns, onshore and offshore renewable energy generation, the development of the hydrogen business, and the IT and innovation divisions. During this time, he also served for one year as CEO of Alterric, the onshore wind joint venture between EWE and the Aloys Wobben Foundation.
Urban Keussen holds a degree in physics from the University of Kiel and a doctorate in applied physics.