Martin Pochtaruk has over 35 years of experience managing manufacturing and innovation businesses across Europe and the Americas. He founded Heliene, a technology leading high quality solar PV manufacturer in 2010, the company is challenging the solar industry status quo by putting customers first. It’s doing so as well by manufacturing high quality, competitively priced solar PV modules made to order in North America. By supporting customers with its in-house logistics team and just in time supply chain solutions. And by being remarkably responsive.
Prior to founding Heliene, he was the VP of Business development at Algoma Steel Inc., a Canadian Public Company, where he was responsible for driving the company’s value-chain integration strategy, creating and increasing value to shareholders. Before Algoma Steel, Pochtaruk spent over fifteen years at Tenaris (NYSE: TS) in Argentina, Italy, the USA and Canada, on positions ranging from applied research, marketing, M&A and supply chain management.
In 1989 Martin graduated in Physics from University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Martin is fluent in Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and English. Since August 2000 lives on the shore of Lake Superior in a remote Northern Ontario community.