Our History
Consulting
Our Products
ARIO IS ACCOMPLISHED
One of the prime reasons for Ario’s success to date has been its ability to combine in-depth project management, delivery and control experience and skills with an integrated client engagement approach.
ARIO IS EFFECTIVE
Ario leads through a combination of experience, an established delivery methodology and creativity. Through an effective blend of these attributes of tradition and innovation, we ensure each project is meticulously executed on time, on target and on budget.
ARIO IS AT THE READY
Ario is accustomed to the consulting environment where skills need to be contracted on short durations for urgent purposes. Ario’s ability to gear up quickly and deliver on urgent tasks has been demonstrated through the successful delivery of work packages to date.
Products
MEtaPower Products
The MEtaPower Battery Converter provides reliable backup power during peak demand times and charges the battery during periods of low demand.
The MEtaPower Inverter is modular and scalable. The inverter design provides a unique balance of central inverter and string inverter attributes.
Ario?s MEtaPower Inverter has been designed to optimise utility scale solar power plants. Conversion economies of scale are created by clustering and interleaving 180kVA inverter modules to produce conversion blocks of several MVA.
Products
MEsoftstart Products
MEsoftstart/Din-02 and MEsoftstart/din-03 are ready-to-use two and three phase intelligent soft starters.
Mitsubishi Electric Europes MEsoftstart microprocessor-based advanced digital soft starter range features bypass control for internal or external bypass and full 3-phas
Management
Top Management
DR RAMATSEMELA MASANGO
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Ramatsemela previous held the positions of Senior Manager for Safety and Licensing on the PBMR Fuel Plant project and Group Executive at Necsa. In her career, she has developed several business strategies and worked with teams to see those strategies through to implementation.
DR LOUIS HEYNS
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Louis has been instrumental in the development and growing of Ario’s consulting business through execution and oversight of all of Ario’s projects. His track record includes leading the Ario team performing the Owner’s Engineering on the Necsa SAFARI Replacement Project, a R5billion programme.
Louis started his career at LIW, progressing to the position of Senior Engineer and manager of the Control Systems department before joining IST Group. In a period spanning more than 12 years, Louis was on the Executive Committee of IST Group and later PBMR holding the positions of Director and General Manager, respectively.
MR NTSAKO MDHLULI
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Ntsako worked at First National Bank (FNB) in both their commercial and retail banking sectors. During his tenure at FNB retail banking he provided support in an advisory role to Excos of FNB Swaziland, FNB Botswana and FNB Lesotho on product alignment, product placement and transactional pricing.
MR LARRY SCHMIDT
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
Larry Schmidt has been in service as Chief Technology Officer of Ario since October 2020. His career in Ario started in 2016 as an embedded engineer with fond memories of testing a power converter in the North Atlantic Ocean near Orkney Islands. Larry now serves to create a path for technology development in all things related to power conversion within the company.
Our Clients
Clients We Work With
