Andreas Spiess

Overview

Andreas Spiess is the co founder and CEO of SOLARKIOSK AG headquartered in Berlin Germany.Andreas professional career started 1999 as a lawyer and founding partner of Spie Schumacher Schmieg & Partner a boutique law firm focusing on IP and Media Law as well as clean tech start ups (www.spiess schumacher.de). Andreas did extensive legal work in the field of renewable energy and developing markets which was the inspiration for his second career as an impact investor and serial entrepreneur. In 2008 Andreas Spiess and his Ethiopian partners founded Solar Development plc based in Addis Abeba which now is one of the biggest solar system integrators in Ethiopia. In 2010 he co founded Fosera Ethiopia plc a solar lighting product assembly line based in Bahir Dar Ethiopia. Andreas entrepreneurial experience in the off grid sector was the basis for his idea for SOLARKIOSK to which his partners from GRAFT architects contributed the award winning technology design.