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About us

The BKW Group is a Bern-based international energy and infrastructure company employing about 7,000 people. Its company network and extensive expertise allow it to offer its customers a full range of overall solutions. The Group plans, builds and operates infrastructure to produce and supply energy to businesses, households and the public sector, and offers digital business models for renewable energies. Today, the BKW Group portfolio comprises everything from engineering consultancy and planning for energy, infrastructure and environmental projects, through integrated offers in the field of building technology, to the construction, servicing and maintenance of energy, telecommunications, transport and water networks.

Executive Board

Dr. Suzanne Thoma

CEO of the BKW Group

1962 – Swiss national

chemical engineer ETH

Suzanne Thoma was Head of Networks at BKW in 2010 before being appointed as CEO in 2013. Until 2009 she was Head of the Automotive Division of the WICOR Group in Rapperswil. Before that, as CEO of Rolic Technologies Ltd., she led a high-tech supplier to the electrical industry. She had previously worked for 12 years in a range of roles and countries for Ciba Spezialitätenchemie AG.

Did you know...

... Suzanne Thoma loves spending time in the Swiss mountains?

Hermann Ineichen

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?

Ronald Trächsel

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.

Roland Küpfer

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.

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Board of Directors

Name	Nationality	since	In office until	Function
Urs Gasche	CH	2002*	GA 2019	Chair of the Board, Chair of the Remuneration and Nomination Committee
Hartmut Geldmacher	D	2009*	GA 2019	Vice Chair of the Board, Member of the Remuneration and Nomination Committee
Roger Baillod	CH	2013	GA 2019	Member
Kurt Schär	CH	2012	GA 2019	Member
Carole Ackermann	CH, A	2018	GA 2019	Member
Rebecca Guntern	CH	from sept 2018	GA 2019	Member
Andreas Rickenbacher**	CH	2018	GA 2020	Member, Member of the Remuneration and Nomination Committee