Andy MacRitchie
Executive Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer

Executive Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer of Aequitas, Andrew MacRitchie has over 25 years of experience in general and executive management roles. He brings considerable experience in strategy, regulation and large company operations with a focus on mergers and acquisitions. Before joining Aequitas he was Executive Vice President and member of the Board of Directors of PacifiCorp, a $10 billion electric utility operating in six western states.

In 1999 Mr. MacRitchie led the federal and state approval processes for ScottishPower’s acquisition of PacifiCorp. He went on to head the business unit responsible for the operational management of PacifiCorp’s $4 billion asset base with 2,600 employees involved in providing electric distribution, transmission and customer service for 1.5 million customers.  Mr MacRitchie’s last role with PacifiCorp was leading the US end of the company’s sale in 2006 to a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate, MidAmerican Energy Holdings.

Mr. MacRitchie holds an honors degree in electronics and electrical engineering as well as an MBA from Strathclyde Graduate Business School in Scotland. He also completed an Executive Development Program at Wharton Business School in 1996. He is a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) and is a Chartered Engineer in the U.K.  He sits on the boards of a number of private and public companies as well as serving on the Board of Trustees for Marylhurst University and recently the Adventist Medical Center Foundation Board Organizing Committee.