A success story backed by industry leaders

All great stories have a beginning – GreenCom Networks’ journey starts with a small team driven by a unique DNA; a mix of energy industry experts and IT specialists bringing decades of experience to the table. Experience in managing hundreds of thousands of IoT devices. Experience they leverage to build a true energy IoT platform.

A platform that is truly scalable, truly device and manufacturer agnostic and can process data and steer assets in close to real-time while relying on an extensive driver library.

Today, GreenCom’s team has grown significantly. Its products run on one of the leading platforms for integrating, controlling and aggregating decentralised energy assets. And: Apart from technical abilities, GreenCom has built a reputation of unlocking value pools for its customers – be it unlocking flexibility margins by aggregation, returning revenues through end customer services or reducing costs by shifting loads. One example of unlocking value pools is the joint venture, GETEC Green Heating.

GETEC Green Heating - a strategic joint venture

GETEC Green Heating taps into the vast European electric heating market and caters to the housing industry looking for digital and electric heating solutions. The joint venture founded by GETEC and GreenCom Networks allows real-estate owners to make a cost-neutral switch to a climate-neutral and sustainable energy supply and is replacing thousands of old electric storage heaters with new, controllable storage heating systems every year. The heat delivered as a service product includes all necessary services such as hardware de-installation and installation and operational management, maintenance and billing. For GETEC Green Heating, GreenCom Networks connects all involved storage heating systems to its energy IoT platform, optimises the energy flows, and provides operational monitoring of the heating systems, including the virtual power plant.

Our investors

What investors and customers say about us

EDP

Centrica

RheinEnergie

Shell Ventures

EDP

Centrica

RheinEnergie

Shell Ventures

Management and supervisory board

GreenCom’s management team combines specialists from a wide range of domains including telecom, technology, automation, utilities, and consultancy. Furthermore, our supervisory board holds decades of relevant industry experience and expertise.

Gerard Reid

Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Gerard Reid is a founding partner in Alexa Capital. Gerard has spent the last decade working in equity research, fund management and corporate finance and has developed a strong reputation as a leading global expert in energy. He is also an author, blogger and a monthly columnist for several media outlets. Prior to founding Alexa Capital, he was Managing Director and Head of European Cleantech Research at Jefferies & Co.

Walter Grassl

Deputy-Chairman

Walter is a founding partner of MVP - Munich Venture partners. Previous roles include partner with Carmel Ventures, Senior Vice President at Siemens IT Services, Vice President Business Development in Siemens Business Services GmbH and Vice President for Database Systems Development and Development of Network Protocol Test Systems in Siemens AG.

Jurgen Hornman

Board Member

Jurgen Hornman is the investment director of Shell Ventures and fullfills various supervisory board roles in energy startups. Prior, he held executive positions at Sequoia, Lemnis Lighting and Axia Partners.

James Bessel

Board Member

James is the Head of Centrica's M&A and Portfolio Management. Prior positions include Non Executive Director at Sprint Energy and Co-wheels Car Club and Board Member at CQ Energy Resources Partnership as well as various roles at British Gas Business.

Ewald Woste

Board Member

Ewald brings more than 25 years of experience in the German utility industry to the table. Currently, he is acting as an advisory for EQT and Macquarie Bank. He is chairing and a member of supervisory boards in several utilities. Previous roles include President of the German utility Association BDEW and CEO of Thüga Group.

Wouter Jonk

Board Member

Wouter is the co-founder and Managing Director of SET Ventures. Previously, he held roles at Philips Corporate Venturing, including three years based in Silicon Valley.

Dr. Christian Feißt

CEO

Christian was the founder and Managing Director for Smart Grid at Cisco Systems. Before joining Cisco, Dr. Christian Feißt spent 10 years working in the utility industry for the management consultancies A.T. Kearney and Booz Allen Hamilton. He holds a PhD in business administration from the University of Hohenheim.

Peter Müller-Brühl

COO

As entrepreneur and investor, Peter has been involved in various start-up companies. Prior to his entrepreneurial activities, he held executive positions in the automotive and other industries, among others acting as CIO Germany for DaimlerChrysler Sales. He holds business degrees from Middlesex University London and European School of Business (ESB) in Reutlingen, as well as an MBA from Ottawa University. Peter also serves on various supervisory & advisory boards of technology companies.

Jan Lengerke

CCO

Having joined GreenCom Networks in 2019, Jan brings with him over a decade of experience in sales, management, and marketing in the energy world. His career has been dedicated to supporting the growth of companies like powercloud, the tariff comparison platform Verivox or EnBW. Apart from that, Jan was office manager for the president of the Deutsche Fußball Bund, where he helped organise the world cup 2006 in Germany.

Karsten Hanich

CFO

After having started his professional life in A.T. Kearney’s utility team, Karsten spent more than 16 years in international Controlling and Sales-related financial positions at Siemens and Nokia. Before joining GreenCom, he headed the Global Investment Management at Nokia. Karsten graduated as Dipl.-Wi.-Ing. from University of Karlsruhe (TH), holds a Master in Economics from Université d’Aix-Marseille and an MBA from University of Massachusetts.

Sébastien Alegret

CTO

Sébastien has worked almost 10 years for Accenture’s Communication and High Tech organization as a Manager for designing, developing and supporting OSS solutions, which were served to major clients in the telecommunications industry. Together with Olivier Brie and Mathieu Pinson he founded Ubinode in 2010. He holds a master in computer science from Polytech Nice-Sophia.

Mathieu Pinson

CPO

In addition to a strong sense of thoroughness, Mathieu brings over 10 years of experience as Software Development lead for Accenture, overseeing developer teams working on software and services for large telcos and related industries. In 2010, Mathieu founded Ubinode together with Olivier Brie and Sébastien Alegret. He holds a master in computer science from Polytech Nice-Sophia.

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Renewable Energy Magazine

TenneT and GreenCom Networks Partner on Pilot Project, 04.06.2021, Renewable Energy Magazine

Online publications

ESB and GreenCom’s heat pump pilot shows promise for balancing the grid, 02.06.2021, Canary Media

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Awards and recognitions along the way

CleanTech 100

GreenCom was named a 2020 Global Cleantech 100 Company for its technological contributions towards a digitised, de-carbonised and resource-efficient industrial future.

VDE

In 2019, GreenCom was recognised by VDE for its use of digitalisation and technology to build a scalable energy community.

CleanEquity Monaco

In 2012, GreenCom won the Excellence award at the CleanEquity Monaco for best in class for Excellence in the Field of Environmental Technology Development.

Navigant

In 2020, Navigant Research named GreenCom a leader of residential energy-as-a-service platform providers - sharing this category only with Lumenaza. According to Navigant, GreenCom has differentiated itself from the competition through exceptional product performance, strong vendor partnerships, and a sustainable business model.

Free Electrons

In 2017, GreenCom one of 12 startups amoung 450 to be chosen by leading accelerator program Free Electrons - founded by established energy companies such as EDP, ESB, TEPCO or innogy.

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