tado° appoints co-founder Johannes Schwarz as CEO
With the recent management change tado° strengthens its strategy of profitable growth by focusing on operational excellence paired with deep market and technology know-how
Munich, April 3, 2025 – tado° has appointed Co-founder Johannes Schwarz as its new CEO. He follows Philip Beckmann, who has shaped the company’s development since 2023 into one of Europe’s leading energy management providers.
The next phase of company development under Mr Schwarz will be focused on profitable growth. As part of this new strategy, the management team is reducing from five managing directors to three. Philip Beckmann, together with the management team, has reduced the leadership team from five to three managing directors. Philip Beckmann and COO Frank Siebdrat will step aside. Johannes Schwarz, who has been CTO since tado°’s founding in 2011, will lead the company together with the managing directors Christian Deilmann and Lukas Zyla.
"During the past two years, we have successfully expanded tado’s position in the energy management market, culminating in the recent capital raise," said Mr Beckmann.
Mr Schwarz added: "This capital injection and the leaner management structure will help us to successfully drive tado°'s next phase of profitable growth."
Focusing on profitable growth is essential to ensure the long-term health and sustainability of the business in a rapidly evolving market. Low-cost energy efficiency solutions are very attractive propositions for households as they reduce their annual energy costs while increasing customers’ comfort. tado°’s energy efficiency solutions typically pay for themselves within the first year due to their high impact with comparatively low investment cost. tado° has solutions for any household across Europe. The company already helps about 1 million households to improve efficiency and comfort but sees much bigger potential as societal relevance increases.
tado° will continue to prioritize key strategic initiatives for its Home Energy Management offering, combining Smart Thermostats, Heat Pump control and electric vehicle charging with dynamic energy tariffs. In recent years, tado° has continued to build on its market-leading home energy management solutions. Strategic partnerships, such as the recent investment by Panasonic, will further strengthen tado’s position.
Biography Johannes Schwarz (Co-founder & CEO)
Before Johannes Schwarz was appointed as CEO, he has been CTO since tado°’s founding in 2011. Prior to co-founding tado°, he trained as a patent attorney at an intellectual property law firm and worked as a freelance IT consultant on miscellaneous enterprise software development projects. Johannes holds a Dipl. Ing. degree in mechanical engineering from the Technical University of Munich (TUM). During his studies at the Technical University of Munich, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and Virginia Tech (USA) he focused on computer science and control systems engineering.
About tado°
tado° is the leading vendor agnostic European provider of intelligent home energy management solutions. Founded in Munich in 2011, the company offers households one simple, easy-to-use platform to control their energy consumption and significantly reduce costs while also driving the green energy transition.
tado°’s hardware, software and services deliver simple and efficient home climate management, intelligent electric vehicle charging,dynamic energy tariff as well as photovoltaic integration on one platform. The objective is to offer maximum comfort and savings while automatically shifting electricity consumption to the cheapest and greenest hours of the day.
tado° is the only vendor agnostic platform, providing compatibility to most vendors of home energy equipment. In 2022, tado° acquired aWATTar, a pioneer in the field of dynamic energy tariffs, as part of its vision to offer a complete yet simple home energy management solutions package that reshapes the way energy is consumed for more comfort, savings, and in sync with nature.
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