Andreas Ritter's route into energy software runs through one of the world's leading high-voltage laboratories. At ETH Zürich he wrote his doctoral thesis on disconnector switching in HVAC and future HVDC gas-insulated switchgear, and his work appeared multiple times in IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery. The thesis received the ETH Medal for outstanding theses, as his master thesis had before it.
In 2018 he joined inpeek, a Swiss IT consultancy, as a senior consultant embedded with utility clients, working with business, stakeholders and developers at once. Since 2021 he has led its Energy business unit. He became a partner, joined the executive board in 2024 and the board of directors in 2025.
His unit works inside the systems that bill and serve utility customers: SAP for Utilities, meter-to-cash and customer service, for clients such as BKW, Primeo Energie and enersuisse, where he is account lead for an AI voice bot, live since 2025. It counts more than 30 consultants across more than 10 concurrent engagements, and about half of his own time is billable as subject-matter expert, requirements engineer and agile coach.
I win executive trust and technical credibility in the room, build momentum, hand execution to a strong delivery team, while staying engaged as subject-matter expert and executive counterpart.Andreas Ritter on how he works
His own builds sit in the same systems. Together with a team of experts, he developed an AI-enabled suite that migrates entire grid areas from innosolvenergy, the billing system of many smaller Swiss utilities, to SAP S/4HANA Utilities, master data and full history included; so far it is in use at Primeo Energie. BillPeek, a proof of concept he conceived and built at inpeek, checks utility bills line by line, so that mass billing runs of 10,000+ invoices can be verified automatically; bills that fail checks go back to the billing experts with detailed reports and suggestions. Wherever personal data is involved, both projects rely on local AI models.
He works hands-on with the tools too, every day since day one: from GitHub Copilot and Gemini to Claude Code, Codex and Antigravity, on professional and personal projects. He uses the many different variations of AI according to their strengths and pits them against each other to improve outcomes. Where a cloud API is not an option, he runs local models: for development that includes personal data, for analyzing large-scale database drift and for benchmarking data sets. At inpeek he kickstarted the AI objectives team and helped to build up an AI competence unit. The majority of inpeek's AI business is with his clients.
Off duty he covers long distances: the Arizona Trail, Sweden's Kungsleden and the Via Alpina across Switzerland, among others. He also brews, with seven category wins and nine podium places at Swiss homebrewing competitions since 2017.
