Head of the Group Markets & Services division

1974 – Swiss and German citizenship

Dr. iur, EMBA (IMD Lausanne)

Antje Kanngiesser has worked for BKW since 2014. After a year as General Secretary, she worked as Head of Group Management from 2015 to 2017 and a member of the extended Executive Board, and has served as Head of Markets & Services since autumn 2017. Before joining BKW, Antje Kanngiesser held various managerial positions at the Alpiq Group and Energie Ouest Suisse (EOS). From 2001 to 2007, she worked in Berlin as a lawyer specialising in energy, infrastructure and commercial law.

Head of Networks

1958 - Swiss national

PhD in Business economics, MBA, Electrical engineer FH

Roland Küpfer is a technology expert with longstanding management experience: over the past four years, Küpfer has been expanding Multiple Dimensions AG’s business activities. Before that, he was CEO of the Cicor Group, a member of the executive management at ASCOM Security Communication and Executive Vice President of the Schaffner Group.

Head of Production

1957 – Swiss national

electrical engineer ETH and MSc in Energy Management, EPFL

Hermann Ineichen joined BKW in 1996. He was Head of Trading at BKW until the end of 2000, and prior to that he headed the Tariffs department of Centralschweizerische Kraftwerke AG.

Did you know...

... Hermann Ineichen is a keen hiker and climbs some 25,000 m in altitude every year?

Head of Finance and Services/CFO

1959 – Swiss national

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Before joining BKW in 2014, Ronald Trächsel was CFO at the Sika Group, where he had been responsible for finance and IT since 2008. Prior to that, he spent eight years as CEO and CFO at Vitra, a company with a presence on the global stage. From 1995 to 1999 Ronald Trächsel was CFO of Ringier International.

Head of the Engineering division

1962 – Swiss citizen

Michael Schüepp joined BKW in late 2014 and assumed responsibility for the development and expansion of BKW Engineering. For over ten years prior to that, he served as managing director and COO in the finance and telecommunications field, as well as non-executive director for private equities, most recently as CEO for a mid-sized company.

Previously, he operated as an independent entrepreneur for licensed personnel evaluation systems for 15 years before successfully selling the company.

*extended Executive Board