Marthinus Venter

About

Head of Business Development APAC | B.Eng E&E, B.Sc IT, MBA 15+ years building Industrial and Process Automation business across Europe, Asia, North America and Africa, with an engineering background and graduate business education. I specialise in taking new markets and verticals from first entry to sustainable, repeat-revenue business, including market incubation, business model design, strategy implementation, team build-out and acquisition integration. Current APAC focus: Microelectronics, Marine, Data Centres and New Energy. Previous industry experience in Automotive, Chemicals and Water/Wastewater.

Experience

• Georg Fischer (4 yrs 9 mos)
  • Head of Business Development - APAC
    Sep 2025 - Present · 11 mos

  • Global Head of Industry - New Energy
    Apr 2024 - Sep 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Senior Business Development - New Energy
    Nov 2021 - Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Festo ()
  • Business Development Manager - Secondary Battery
    Feb 2019 - Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • Industry Segment Management & Business Development
    Jan 2013 - Feb 2019 · 6 yrs 2 mos

• Senior Systems Engineer at MTN
  Mar 2009 - Dec 2012 · 3 yrs 10 mos