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About Us
Switch builds software that measures, bills and trades electricity and water. We develop and operate two platforms: a meter data management system for smart metering, utility billing and revenue collection, and a console for wheeling and energy trading.
Our clients include property owners, metering companies, independent power producers and licensed energy traders. They rely on Switch to turn meter data into accurate bills, reconciled wheeling allocations and settled trades.
We design and build our software and our modems in-house, in Cape Town, to South African market standards. That gives us full control over quality and security, and it means we can adapt our platforms to the way each client operates.
We work as a long-term technology partner: we take the time to understand each client’s business, and we build what makes a measurable difference to it.
Meet the Team
Brought together by a shared vision of building great software and hardware to enhance utility management and drive the energy transition.
Andrew Murray
CEO
Andrew leads Switch’s strategy, commercial partnerships and product direction. He has spent close to a decade in South Africa’s renewable energy and utility management sector, working with property portfolios, power producers, licensed traders and municipalities on smart metering, wheeling and energy trading.
His specialist focus is how wheeling and energy trading are being built into the South African electricity system, and what businesses need to have in place to take part.
Master’s Degree in Sustainable Development Planning and Management (cum laude), Stellenbosch University
Daniel Hewlett
COO
Daniel runs Switch’s day-to-day operations, making sure that what the company commits to is delivered on time and to standard. He oversees client implementations, internal processes and the coordination between the engineering, support and commercial teams.
He takes a product ownership approach to operations: every product and client project has a clear owner, defined priorities and measurable outcomes. This keeps Switch responsive as it scales, and gives clients a consistent experience from onboarding through to ongoing support.
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Heinrich De Lange
CTO
Heinrich has over 7 years’ experience as a CTO and director, managing hardware and software engineering teams of up to 40 people. His expertise is in high-level technology advisory and planning as well as project planning and management. His master’s thesis involved developing an energy trading system architecture using blockchain technology.
Master’s Degree (Electrical and electronic engineering)
Chido Agnes Mandazah
Business Operations
Chido is a seasoned Energy Efficiency and Sustainability professional with over a decade of experience in the utilities management and metering sector.
Chido plays a critical role in managing Switch business operations and customer success and is currently expanding her knowledge through certification in Sustainable and Renewable Energy.
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Bachelor of Business Administration - Building Energy Auditing - Energy Efficiency and Sustainability
Lowku Leeuwner
Hardware Engineer
Lowku’s primary role at Switch entails hardware development primarily associated with modem design and manufacturing. He also plays a key role in the backend development and project management, assisting with ensuring that hardware and software function in harmony and can be managed and controlled via the Switch Admin console. Lowku’s thesis focused on demand side management solutions.
Master’s Degree (Electrical & electronic engineering)
Pablo Miceli
Product Engineer
With more than a decade of experience in software development, Pablo has built a career around creating innovative digital experiences. His technical expertise covers modern web technologies, cloud infrastructure, and full-stack development.
Pablo's approach at Switch combines strategic thinking with hands-on execution, focusing on data visualization, micro-interactions, motion design, and enhanced user experiences.
Guy Paterson-Jones
Back-end Developer
Guy’s input and focus is on building the energy trading software and backend infrastructure to enable Switch’s advanced energy allocation and reconciliation engine. Before joining Switch, Guy worked at Luno, where he worked on the exchange backend
managing the APIs and order-book infrastructure.
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Masters Degree (Computer Science)
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Honours Degree (Applied Mathematics)
Max Paterson-Jones
Front-end Developer
Max primarily works on the frontend UI for the Switch admin console, mobile app, and energy trading platform. He plays an important role in creating a simple yet highly advanced and functional user experience, moulding the complex engineering into seemingly simple tools for end users.
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Bachelor Of Computer And Information Sciences in Application Development
Josh Dippenaar
Advisor
Josh's professional focus is on renewable energy, electricity markets and generator grid integration. For the last 7 years he has provided technical support to over 100 electric utilities and regulators to integrate renewable energy technologies into their grids.
Josh has been instrumental in the development of the NERSA wheeling rules and has worked closely with municipalities to implement wheeling policies and frameworks. Josh plays an important role in guiding the Switch energy trading product development, and in ensuring it meets the needs of municipalities and energy traders.
PhD Electrical Engineering
Gabriel Ravenscroft
Back-end Developer
Gabriel contributes to the design, development, and optimization of our energy trading and smart metering platforms. With a strong foundation in backend technologies, APIs, and database management, Gabriel plays a key role in ensuring system performance, scalability, and reliability across our software ecosystem.
Bachelor of Science degree (Majoring in Pure Mathematics and Computer Science)
Trusted Partners
We work with partner businesses throughout South Africa to service a national network of utility monitoring devices and thousands of clients.
Our partners are vetted and fully certified, and we take full responsibility for the installation, maintenance and client support they provide.
