Rejuvenated management team at KISTERS.
8 January 2025
New heads of sales, consulting and project management.
Press release: Aachen, 8 January 2025.
On 1 January 2025, there were two changes in the management team of the Energy division of Aachen-based IT company for the energy industry KISTERS:
Torsten Koopmann has taken over as Head of Sales, succeeding Dr Markus Probst, who previously held a dual role as Head of Sales and Head of the Business Unit and will now focus exclusively on the latter. Above that, Andreas Forkel has moved to the head of Consulting. Marcus Schröbel had already taken over as Head of Project Management and Head of the KISTERS subsidiary in Oldenburg in March 2024. Forkel and Schröbel follow colleagues who are retiring.
The 44-year-old computer scientist Koopmann has been with KISTERS for more than ten years in various positions, most recently in key account management and business development. Here he was able to contribute his experience from previous activities as a business analyst and management consultant and further expand his expertise in the energy industry.
The 45-year-old Forkel is also a long-standing KISTERS employee and has spent the last eight years as Head of Consulting in the Sales/Retail division, where he demonstrated his leadership skills and constantly expanded his industry and IT expertise.
Schröbel, a 54-year-old graduate engineer, has worked in various technical and commercial management positions in mechanical and plant engineering for more than twenty years. There, he has deepened his experience in industrial automation, process and organisational development, business development, sales and personnel development.
The three energy industry experts will continue to expand the path the company has taken as a reliable partner to energy suppliers and as a pioneer for the intelligent use of renewable energy. They will support customers with the market-oriented, secure and high-performance KISTERS IT platform, their expertise, their motivated teams and professional advice.
‘With Torsten Koopmann, Andreas Forkel and Marcus Schröbel, we have appointed highly qualified and team-orientated managers to these important positions. I am delighted that we have succeeded in reorganising our management team with young and experienced colleagues within the space of a year. This puts us in an excellent position for the future,’ says Dr Markus Probst, one of the three heads of the KISTERS Group’s Energy unit.
About KISTERS
Making greater use of renewable energies, advancing the energy transition, mitigating the effects of climate change – that is our passion and our motivation. As a pioneer for the intelligent use of renewable energies, we develop digital solutions with more than 750 employees to help us use our planet’s resources more responsibly. Our portfolio for the energy industry includes market-tested software for energy data and portfolio management, metering and metering point operation, energy trading and sales, forecasting, virtual power plants and smart grids/control technology. More than 750 companies from the energy sector and industry rely on KISTERS software.
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