Managing Director, Priedemann Africa
Alexander Tornow is an Managing Director for Priedemann Africa Ltd. in Nairobi, responsible for the groups operations in Africa.
He has around 30 years of metal construction and façade construction experience in Europe, Middle East and Africa. For the last 3 years he is heading the groups business development as well as façade consulantcy and engineering activities in Africa and partly China.
As certified façade engineer, master craftsman for metal construction as well as European Welding Engineer he started his carrier at one of Germany’s leading aluminium system suppliers before going back to his roots working for different façade fabricators in and around Berlin, the last one at it’s technical Managing Director. After 10 years in the metal-facade fabrication industry, Alexander joined Priedemann Fassadenberatung in Berlin at the beginning of 2007. A year later he moved to the groups Dubai office as a projects manager. There he engineered different kind of facades for projects like Barwa Financial District (GPD) -Doha, the Landmark Tower- Abu Dhabi, Kuwait Investment Authority – Kuwait, Sky Gate Tower – Beirut, KSA Mission Tower – Cairo, Hotel French Boulevard 60 – Odessa and others.
In 2011 he moved to Forster Profile System, heading the Middle East office in Silicon Oasis in Dubai. As General Manager, he was responsible for the business development for the MEA as well as India market. In 2012 he was one of the Co-Founder of the “Safety Design in Building” conference series which was one of the lead institution which brought fire safety matters on the table in the GCC region. During his time by Forster until Summer 2014 several major project in the GCC where realised with Forster systems. Those were: Al Manaseer Police station – Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Zayed Desert Learning Centre – Al Ain, New York University – Abu Dhabi, Hamad Rumailah hospital – Doha, Dubai International Airport, Muscat Airport, Midfield Terminal Buildings – Abu Dhabi Airport and many more.
At the moment Alex is currently working on various projects in Kenya as well as in Nigeria. In addition to that he is supporting the groups Chinese operation at the refurbishment of a 20 storey residential tower in Shanghai due to his vast experience in installation and maintenance of window and façade systems.
