Dr. René Blaschke.

My career started on the workshop floor as an electrician. From there, the path led through engineering, IT systems architecture, energy economics, and product management at industrial scale. Twenty years later, the throughline is still the same, connecting how things actually work on the ground with the strategic decisions that shape them at the top.

I have spent fifteen years inside utilities and industrial enterprises before moving into independent practice. I have led smart metering and smart grid architecture for a regional utility, built and globally led the IoT product portfolio at B&R Industrial Automation, and currently shape platform architecture at STIHL. I hold a doctorate in Business Administration, alongside masters in IT systems and European energy business.

I do not separate strategy from architecture. The two collapse into each other on every serious engagement, and the work I value most is the work that holds at both layers. That is the position I bring to the clients I take on.