Ben Venter

Ben Venter has been Vice President, Energy Industries, ABB Canada, since 2018. In his current role, he heads up the local division of Energy Industries that includes Oil, Gas, Refining, Chemicals, Water & Waste Water and Power Generation. Ben’s career within the ABB began in 2000 when Ben joined ABB as a Site Manager and reliability consultant within the Full Service group. Within this position Ben started Full Service Sites within South Africa and Canada and consulted on service implementation strategies. Before his current role Ben has been Vice President and General Manager, Service Canada. In the service role, he lead ABB’s Service business within Canada across the complete service portfolio and represented ABB’s service capability within the industrial and utility customer base. Before joining ABB Ben held various engineering and reliability management positions within global industrial companies.Ben is recognized as a specialist in business and service strategies, plant performance improvement, implementation of reliability concepts and business performance. Ben recently completed his eMBA degree to further expand his capabilities within business management and administration. Ben has presented reliability improvement concepts through data management in control systems and equipment data monitoring at various reliability forums. Ben has also published articles on overall equipment effectiveness improvement through technology platforms and service contract management concepts.