Bill Venter


William Peter Venter is a South African businessman, entrepreneur and industrialist.
Venter founded Allied Electronics Corporation in 1965. Acquisitions under his leadership included Bytes Technology Group in 1998.

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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.