Company

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 Renewables and Efficiency

1967 – German and Italian national

mechanical engineer

Before joining BKW in 2013, Renato Sturani worked at Alpiq from 2002, initially as Head of Power Generation (Western region) and then as Head of Renewable Energy from 2011. Previously he had held management positions at national and international level with ABB Alstom Power.

Head of Finance and Services/CFO

1959 – Swiss national

lic.rer.pol.

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 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.