# Andreas Ritter

Head of Business Unit Energy · Partner · Board of Directors  
inpeek AG, Swiss IT consultancy · Switzerland  
Languages: German (native), English (native), French (B2)

> I bring AI into the core systems of Swiss utilities.

I lead the Energy business unit of inpeek, a Swiss IT consultancy, as a partner and member of its board of directors. My unit works inside the systems that bill and serve utility customers: SAP for Utilities, meter-to-cash and customer service. More and more of that work is AI running in production.

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.

## What I do

- **Executive relationships in energy.** Account, pre-sales and sales lead for large Swiss utilities. My unit's clients include BKW, Primeo Energie and enersuisse, where I am account lead for an AI voice bot, live since 2025.
- **AI on utility data, with guardrails.** I build AI into utility data work: a suite that migrates entire grid areas to SAP S/4HANA Utilities, and BillPeek, which checks mass billing runs line by line and hands what it cannot confirm back to the billing experts. Where personal data is involved, local models do the work.
- **Delivery that scales.** A unit of 30+ consultants across 10+ concurrent client engagements. I help hire our senior consultants and engineers, and about half of my own time is billable as subject-matter expert, requirements engineer and agile coach.
- **Engineering depth.** PhD in high-voltage DC switchgear at ETH Zürich. Still hands-on every day with Python, local models and AI coding tools, from data analysis to full applications.

## In figures

- 8+ years customer-facing at Swiss utilities
- 30+ consultants in my business unit
- 2× ETH Medal, doctorate and master

## Selected work

My own work; inpeek's public reference is linked where one exists.

- **AI-enabled grid migration suite** (Primeo Energie, since 2025). Migrates entire grid areas and solution providers from innosolvenergy, the billing system of many smaller Swiss utilities, to SAP S/4HANA Utilities, master data and all: customers, premises, meters, contracts, meter readings and their full history. Data cleansing, interactive visualizations and checks against the source are built in, with local models wherever personal data is involved; expert consulting comes with it. My role: Migration, development, expert consulting. Keywords: innosolvenergy · SAP S/4HANA Utilities · Python · Local LLMs.
- **BillPeek - AI-automated invoice verification** (inpeek, 2026). Proof of concept to productize checking utility bills line by line, from simple to complex, so that mass billing runs of 10,000+ invoices can be verified automatically; bills it cannot confirm go back to the billing experts with detailed feedback on a per line-item basis. Multi-stage AI: cloud models for development, local models for the loops that touch personal data, and deterministic redaction. My role: Concept and build. Keywords: Python · Local LLMs · Cloud AI · PII redaction.
- **Digital platform and the move to product teams** (Primeo Energie, since 2019). Primeo Energie's digital platform, the customer and business portals connected to SAP IS-U. First Scrum Master of the growing digitalization and integration team, then product owner and project lead for self-services, such as a price and tariff calculator that forecasts a customer's upcoming energy and grid costs by simulating the bill in SAP. As agile coach, guiding the move from parallel project teams towards product teams. My role: Scrum Master, product owner, project lead, agile coach. Keywords: SAP IS-U · Angular · Magnolia CMS · Scrum.
- **Energy business unit** (inpeek, since 2021). Built up inpeek's Energy business unit and grew its portfolio, revenue and client base, adding AI solutions and a data-migration service line. Clients include BKW, CKW, Groupe E, Primeo Energie, WWZ, ewz, ewb, IWB, enersuisse and cc energie; five-year framework agreements won in public tenders of the city utilities of Bern, Winterthur and Zürich. My role: Head of business unit. Keywords: Pre-sales · Sales · Account management · Public tenders.
- **Project Mosaik** (cc energie · BKW, 2021). Three grid areas merged into one in the SAP IS-U system that cc energie ran for BKW. Cut over in one weekend between the 2021 and 2022 books: 34 people with migration tasks, 87 migration steps and 158 tests, back in normal operation on Monday. Keywords: SAP IS-U · Meter-to-cash · Project management. [Reference](https://inpeek.ch/projekt-mosaik/)
- **Self-service web portal** (Energie Wasser Bern, 2020). A brand new customer portal for Bern's city utility: customers see their invoices, change payment methods and products, register moves and check their energy use. ewb's first agile software project, built by a joint ewb and inpeek Scrum team and live on schedule in December 2020. Keywords: Angular · Mobile-first · Cloud · Scrum. [Reference](https://inpeek.ch/relaunch-webportal/)

## AI in my own work

- Hands-on with LLM tools every day since day one: from GitHub Copilot, Gemini to now Claude Code, Codex and Antigravity. Making use of the cutting edge for professional and personal projects.
- Use the many different variations of AI according to their strengths and pit them against each other to improve outcomes.
- Local models for PII-inclusive development, for analyzing database drifts, benchmarking utility data, where a cloud API is not an option.
- I lead inpeek's AI objectives team and helped build its AI competence unit. The majority of inpeek's AI business is with my clients.

## Career

- 2025: Board of Directors, inpeek AG
- 2024: Executive Board, inpeek
- 2021: Head of Business Unit Energy, Partner, inpeek
- 2018: Senior Consultant, embedded with utility clients, inpeek
- 2012–2018: Doctoral researcher, High Voltage Laboratory, ETH Zürich
- Earlier: MSc Electrical Engineering, with distinction, ETH Zürich

## Education

- PhD in Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich, High Voltage Laboratory (2018). Thesis: Disconnector Switching in HVAC and Future HVDC GIS. ETH Medal.
- MSc in Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich. With distinction. Master thesis: Disconnector and Earthing Switch Operation in HVDC GIS, ETH Medal.

## Publications

- 2019: Improving GIS Disconnectors for Future HVDC Applications. IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, with U. Straumann and C. Franck.
- 2018: Prediction of Bus-Transfer Switching in Future HVDC Substations. IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, with C. Franck.
- 2017: Novel Method for Predicting Limit Performance of Bus-Transfer Switching by Disconnectors. IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, with U. Straumann and C. Franck.
- 2016: Five Years of Pulsed Current Testing for HVDC Switchgear. IEEE ICHVE conference paper, with L. Bort and C. Franck.
- 2015: Analysis Method and Implications of Utilizing a Full Bus-Transfer Setup for Testing Disconnectors. CIGRE SC A3 & B3 Joint Colloquium paper, with U. Straumann, U. Riechert and C. Franck.
- 2014: Investigation of LC-Resonance Driving in Disconnector Bus-Transfer Testing. CIGRE Session paper, with U. Straumann, U. Riechert and C. Franck.
- 2013: Derivation of Requirements for Small-Current Switching in Future HVDC Substations. ISH conference paper, with M. M. Walter, U. Straumann and C. Franck.
- 2012: Improved Frequency Bias Factor Sizing for Non-Interactive Control. CIGRE Session paper, M. Scherer, E. Iggland, A. Ritter and G. Andersson.
- 2011: Deterministic Sizing of the Frequency Bias Factor of Secondary Control. Thesis, ETH Zürich
- Doctoral thesis: https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/items/17c875c7-37d6-45e6-abfd-c4d1ac4632c6
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9G0Hy4EAAAAJ
- ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andreas-Ritter-8

## Certifications

- SAP Certified Project Manager – SAP Activate (SAP)
- Professional Scrum Master III (Scrum.org)
- Professional Scrum Product Owner II (Scrum.org)
- Scaled Professional Scrum (Scrum.org)

## Outside work

- Cycling: road, gravel and mountain bike, two of the bikes own builds. Long routes: EuroVelo 15 (82%), Arizona Trail, Kungsleden, Via Alpina, John Muir Trail (36%), Jura Crest Trail (66%), ViaJura, Chasseral–Weissenstein Bike (65%), Rhein–Hirzel–Linth (65%), Studenland-Töss-Römer-Route (60%), Basel–Franches-Montagnes (63%), Chemin du Jura bernois, Glatt-Route (77%), Ibergeregg–Sattelegg–Linth (70%), Percorso Blenio–Lucomagno (62%), Lötschberg-Panoramaweg, Bern-Süd-Route (74%), Lost Coast Trail.
- Homebrewing: 7 category wins and 9 podium places at Brau- und Rauchshop Contest and SIOS Trophy, 2017 to 2025, all judged blind.
- Espresso: dialling in on a flow-modded Sage Dual Boiler and an Olympia Cremina.

## Contact

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreas-ritter/
- Website: https://andreasritter.ch/ (email link on the page)

Updated 2026-11-12.