The Advisory House is an independent management consultancy.

The Advisory House Group

• Roland Dörig, Partner
  
  Roland Dörig is a Partner at The Advisory House. After graduating in Business Studies with a focus on financial market theory, he worked for several years in an international management consultancy in the European energy sector.
  
  During his many years of consulting in the energy industry, he focused on the design and implementation of growth strategies and restructuring programmes as well as many assignments related to value- and risk-oriented corporate management in every sector of the industry.
  
  
• Dr Dirk Mulzer, Partner, Management Spokesman
  
  Dr Dirk Mulzer is a Partner and the Management Spokesman of The Advisory House. He is currently managing the office of The Advisory House Ltd. in London. Dirk Mulzer was Managing Director of The Advisory House AG, Zurich, for seven years and before that worked in the Utilities Practice of a major international business consultancy for five years.
  
  With more than 12 years experience in the European energy industry, Dirk Mulzer has guided the strategic alignment and restructuring of many energy companies in all stages of the value chain. His fields of focus are strategic and organisational development, and pre-merger and post-merger integration.
  
  Dirk Mulzer studied Business Administration at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) and was awarded his PhD from the University of St. Gallen and Wharton School of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
  
  
• Dr Claus Schmidt, Partner, CFO
  
  Dr Claus Schmidt is a Partner and the CFO of The Advisory House.
  
  He has headed many consulting projects for European energy companies at The Advisory House. His focus areas include strategic development, corporate controlling, risk and portfolio management, and process and organisation design.
  
  Claus Schmidt previously worked as a Project Manager for strategic issues in finance and the energy industry in an international management consultancy. He studied Physics at Basle University, Switzerland, received his PhD in Nanophysics and is a certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM®).
  
  

Switzerland

• Andrea Binggeli, Partner
  
  Andrea Binggeli is a Partner and member of the management team at The Advisory House. She previously worked in a major corporate consultancy in the energy and raw material chemistry sectors for four years.
  
  Her work focuses on the fields of power exploration, energy trading and energy sales. With more than ten years experience in the European energy industry, Andrea Binggeli has advised many companies in the areas procurement and trading strategies, power plant capacity expansion, process optimisation and performance management.
  
  Andrea Binggeli studied Business Administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.
  
  
• Dr Marc-Felix Otto, Partner
  
  Dr Marc-Felix Otto is a Partner at The Advisory House and has worked in the Zurich office since 2007. He was previously employed by a leading international strategy consultancy for many years.
  
  Marc-Felix Otto manages projects with major European utilities in the value chain stages trading and generation. His focus areas are divisional strategy development, portfolio and risk management, transformation and post-merger integration.
  
  Marc-Felix Otto studied Physics and Business Studies at Hamburg University and at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has a PhD in Physics from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization.
  
  
• Nadine Rasi, Partner
  
  Nadine Rasi is a Partner at The Advisory House AG and based in Zurich. She previously spent seven years in the Utilities Practice of a major international corporate consultancy in Germany and Switzerland.
  
  She currently supports major energy corporations in the Swiss market, especially in the areas grid and sales. Her focus themes include strategic realignment, process and organisation development, controlling models, benchmarking, pricing strategies and regulation management.
  
  Nadine Rasi studied Business Administration at the University of Lüneburg, specialising in taxation and auditing.
  
  
• Michael Pirich, Partner
  
  Michael Pirich is Partner with The Advisory House AG in Zurich. Prior to joining The Advisory House in 2010, he worked for a leading international management consultancy as well as for a leading European utility in senior management positions in trading and sales. Afterwards he founded his own consulting and project development firm specialised in utilities.
  
  With more than 15 years of consulting and industry experience Mr. Pirich has advised numerous clients in the areas of generation and procurement as well as energy trading and sales.
  
  Michael Pirich studied computer science for business applications and electrical engineering at the University of Vienna and the University of California, Berkeley.
  

Germany

• Robert Jung, Partner
  
  Robert Jung is a Partner and Managing Director of The Advisory House GmbH. Before joining The Advisory House GmbH in 2009, he was a Managing Director of an international management consultancy and head of its energy and process industry division.
  
  With more than 20 years experience in international consulting, Robert Jung has supervised and managed transformation projects and their implementation in many companies. His focus is on energy trading.
  
  Robert Jung studied Mathematics and IT at the University of Bonn.
  
  
• Dr Dirk Mulzer, Partner
  
  Dr Dirk Mulzer is a Partner and the Management Spokesman of The Advisory House. He is currently managing the office of The Advisory House Ltd. in London. Dirk Mulzer was Managing Director of The Advisory House AG, Zurich, for seven years and before that worked in the Utilities Practice of a major international business consultancy for five years.
  
  With more than 12 years experience in the European energy industry, Dirk Mulzer has guided the strategic alignment and restructuring of many energy companies in all stages of the value chain. His fields of focus are strategic and organisational development, and pre-merger and post-merger integration.
  
  Dirk Mulzer studied Business Administration at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) and was awarded his PhD from the University of St. Gallen and Wharton School of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
  
  

Austria

• Franz Gologranc, Partner
  
  Franz Gologranc is a Partner and Managing Director of The Advisory House GmbH in Vienna. He has been a Manager at The Advisory House since 2007 and previously worked in an international management and technology consultancy for eleven years.
  
  During his many years as a consultant, he supported energy companies in various areas of the value chain with strategic and operational IT issues, from design to implementation. His core competencies are in IT strategy, IT optimisation, IT assessment, IT service management processes and implementing complex IT solutions.
  
  Franz Gologranc graduated in Telematics at the Technical University of Graz (focusing on Electronics and Information Processing) and earned his PhD in Communication Systems at the University of Wales.
  
  
• Dr Friedrich Huber, Senior Advisor
  
  Dr Friedrich Huber is the Managing Director of The Advisory House in Vienna. He has been a consultant since 1990, including ten years as Managing Director of a major international business consultancy.
  
  Friedrich Huber has managed many projects in the field of corporate strategy and process improvement, cost optimisation and post-merger. Additionally, he is a lecturer in Strategic Management at an Austrian University of Applied Sciences.
  
  Friedrich Huber studied Technical Mathematics at the Technical University of Graz, where he gained his PhD at the Institute for Information Processing.
  
  

United Kingdom

• Dr Jim Fitzgerald, Associate Partner
  
  Dr Jim Fitzgerald is an Associate Partner at The Advisory House and joined the London office in 2012. He was previously a senior member of the Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers energy practices, also based in London. He started his career with ESB International, Dublin, in 1998 where he helped develop power stations in a number of countries.
  
  With more than 13 years´ experience in international energy finance and sector restructuring, Jim Fitzgerald has advised both public and private sector clients at all stages of transactions and energy business transformations. His focus is on strategy & business models, portfolio & risk management and mergers & acquisitions.
  
  Jim Fitzgerald holds a BEng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering (1995) and a PhD in Gas Turbine Aerodynamics (2001) from the University of Limerick, Ireland.
  
  
• Dr Dirk Mulzer, Partner
  
  Dr Dirk Mulzer is a Partner and the Management Spokesman of The Advisory House. He is currently managing the office of The Advisory House Ltd. in London. Dirk Mulzer was Managing Director of The Advisory House AG, Zurich, for seven years and before that worked in the Utilities Practice of a major international business consultancy for five years.
  
  With more than 12 years experience in the European energy industry, Dirk Mulzer has guided the strategic alignment and restructuring of many energy companies in all stages of the value chain. His fields of focus are strategic and organisational development, and pre-merger and post-merger integration.
  
  Dirk Mulzer studied Business Administration at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) and was awarded his PhD from the University of St. Gallen and Wharton School of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.