Bill Venter


William Peter "Bill" Venter is a South African businessman, entrepreneur and industrialist.
Venter has achieved significantly in the electronics, telecommunications and power electrical sectors, both in South Africa and abroad. He is chairman of Allied Electronics Corp Ltd, Bytes Technology Group and the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. He is on the Board of Directors of Bytes Technology Group, Power Technologies Ltd, Allied Electronics Corp Ltd, Telemetrix Plc, UEC Multi-Media, Allied Technologies Ltd, AMIC Ltd., Nedcor Bank Ltd. and Standard Telephones and Cables SA. He is a trustee of Pres Mandela's Children's Trust Fund.

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He has four sons and a daughter. Two of his two sons, Robert and Craig, were from his first marriage to Jean Georgina Poole. In 1994, Edith, Venter's second wife and mother of two of his sons, was awarded a record R12-million divorce settlement. She was married for the third time in 1995 to Johannesburg businessman Garth Carstens.