Gerhard Loots is a highly accomplished and experienced business leader with a proven track record of driving growth across a wide range of industries including real estate, telecommunications, security, health, consumer electronics and advanced manufacturing. As a transformational entrepreneurial leader, he is highly skilled in building high-performance teams based on strong ethical foundations of integrity, care and passion. Gerhard has the rare ability to bridge the gap between commercial product development and technical expertise to identify and deliver growth initiatives that leverage digitisation to generate new business value.

Gerhard’s strong new product development credentials are built on a solid technical and customer-centric foundation. He has been recognised for his work in this field through multiple awards, including the prestigious Red Dot Award. Additionally, Gerhard is recognised as a thought leader in IoT and digitisation, with a passion for continuous learning and development.

Gerhard’s formal qualifications include law, commerce, network engineering, project management, and continuous improvement. He brings a balanced perspective to commercial and operational decision-making.

Gerhard’s past roles include Global IoT Solutions Executive at Telstra, Head of IoT & M2M at Telstra, Senior Product Specialist at Telstra, General Manager at RØDE Microphones, General Manager: Technology Innovation at Hills Ltd, and Chief Commercial Officer at ATEC Systems and Technologies. He was also a former member of the board and Non-Executive Director at MTData and the GSMA IoT PSG.