Industry Expert : Karlheinz Bendzko
Karlheinz has worked in the energy sector for over 30 years. He hasgathered expertise in the cooperation with regional energy distribution companies and with multi – utilities of some of the new EU member states. He started his career as geophysicist in the E & P business of oil and gas and went 
through the entire value added energy chain.
Karheinz was holding a variety of positions on a director level in transmission and regional distribution companies in Germany, Poland and Slovakia working for British Gas, VNG AG and other companies. Between 1997 and 2003 he has been a member of the Working Party on Gas of the UN Economic Commission for Europe.
Since 2004 he is running his own energy consultancy business by focussing the activities on
• Accomplishment of technical EU standards in the energy business of some of the new EU member states
• Business assistance on energy sector due diligence for investors
• Review of smart metering market entry strategies under the conditions of a highly segmented energy market
• Participation in border crossing energy transmission project studies