Our Executive Team

Frederic Abbal, CEO

Frederic ́s impressive career spans over 30 years as top executive with a proven experience in business development and transformations. Amongst his many senior management positions Frederic was Member of the Executive Committee at Schneider Electric (SE) Group for nearly 10 years. At Schneider his career brought him from country manager of NE Africa to President SE-France, Schneider ́s largest territory with Euro 1,8bn in sales and 22.000 people.

He then continued his career in SE ́s Executive Committee to take the lead for Schneider ́s Energy Business and lead the merge with Areva Distribution, Schneider ́s landmark acquisition performed in 2010 with Euro 4,7bn revenues and 35.000 people. Frederic led the Energy Business to growth, brought profitability up, transformed the 2/3 company streamlining the technological platforms, created IOT and services business. The business became the leader in its field by revenue, profitability and technology.

Frederic has also been a Board member of several international companies in Europe, Middle East and Africa.

“I am excited to join FläktGroup in such an important phase during its growth journey. I honour past  achievements  and  look  forward  to  working  with  a  great  team  to  deliver even  more successes in the future” comments Frederic.

Tobias Ketterle, CFO

Tobias is a senior Executive with a profound background in Finance and IT from a comparable industrial environment and private equity experience.

After getting his master’s degrees in business administration from universities in Bamberg, Germany and Western Illinois in the USA he started his professional career at KPMG.

He then managed Mergers & Acquisitions at REWE Zentralfinanz eG in Cologne before he joined the Wilo Group in 2007. Wilo is one of the world’s leading premium providers of pumps and pump systems for the building services, water management and industrial sectors with approximately 7.400 employees worldwide and a global turnover of 1.2 billion EUR in 2014.

Tobias initially was hired as Chief Information Officer before he became in charge of a large strategic transformation program. After a successful completion of the program he was appointed as Group CFO. In 2015 he became the Group CFO of DSD – Duales System Deutschland, a private equity owned company, and successfully restructured it until the company was sold in 2022.

Yvonne Comolli, Human Resources

Yvonne joined FläktGroup in May 2019 as Chief Human Resources Officer, providing HR leadership across the group.

Her key responsibility is to deploy consistent best practice HR programs, processes and tools in order to support our growth and profitability objectives.

Yvonne is a very experienced Senior Executive with over 23 years of professional background in HR and Compliance.

Before joining FläktGroup, she held Senior global positions within a broad range of industries. Yvonne holds a degree in Business Administration from Dortmund university.

Fabien Buffard, Marketing & Product Strategy

Fabien joined FläktGroup in February 2018. In his role, Fabien is accountable for globally leading the Marketing & Product Management teams and support the development of industry leading Air Comfort and Critical Air Solutions.

Fabien has acquired 25 years of experience in HVAC businesses, holding various senior positions in marketing strategy, go-to-market & product management, acquisition integration and transformation. Prior to joining FläktGroup, Fabien was Marketing & Product Strategy director in Europe, Asia & Middle-East commercial HVAC for Carrier leading brand.

Fabien is a graduated mechanical engineer from University of Brighton, UK and certified in Pro -Cert Marketing & ACE UTC operating system.

Ömer Tüzer, CTO

Ömer is Chief Technology Officer of FläktGroup. In his role he drives FläktGroup’s technology and innovation strategy with the focus of digitalization, sustainability and ESG. He oversees FläktGroup’s Engineering teams and Center of Excellences and works across the organisation to provide strategic and operational oversight to develop Energy Efficient Products, Services and Solutions, fueling the profitable growth of the company.

Ömer has now been with FläktGroup for over 23 years in various sales, marketing, production, management, strategy and leadership roles. In his last role he was Chief Sales Officer and accountable for growth in Turkey & Middle East regions. He has managed many energy efficient and challenging HVAC solutions for very large scale Commercial & Industrial application projects for Products & Services, including applications like large Data Center projects.

Ömer earned a bachelor‘s degree in mechanical engineering from Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi of Ankara and MSc. degrees in mechanical engineering from Bogazici Universitesi of İstanbul

Trevor Young, SEMCO and WOODS USA

Trevor leads the American division of the FläktGroup which currently consists of three manufacturing plants and a head office in Columbia Missouri. With over 25 years of experience in the HVAC industry, Trevor has worked for leading brand companies such as Swegon, Biddle Air Systems and Prior to working in the states Trevor was responsible for Fläkt Woods sales in Europe.  Virtually all of his career has involved the sales and development of Energy saving, Green ventilation and Air conditioning equipment.

Trevor is an Irish Citizen where he studied Mechanical Engineering, he also lived in United Kingdom and now resides in the US with his family.