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Rob Surtees (born 7 November 1961) is a South African electrical engineer and business executive. He is the co-founder and Managing Director of Enerweb (PTY) LTD, which was acquired by NEXTEC in 2012. He now runs the Energy Solutions and Analytics division within NEXTEC.

Early life
Rob Surtees was born in Dundee (Kwa Zulu Natal) on 7 Nov 1961. His father was a well-known electrical engineer in a town called Dundee and later moved to Ekurhuleni where he took up this position as well. Rob followed his father’s footsteps and studied BSc. Electrical Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand, also completing his MSc. He has completed his MBA and he is a registered professional engineer (Pr. Eng).

Technical Career
Rob started his working career (in 1986) with Eskom, regarded as the electricity utility of South Africa. He occupied a variety of technical, managerial and executive roles in Eskom. While starting out in the Power System Dynamics environment with Eskom’s Research and Development group, he was instrumental in instituting the first set of quality of supply standards relating to harmonic distortion in Eskom and was involved in commissioning three of the 400kV Cape region Station Static VAR Compensators in the 1980’s.

As a result of his interest in power system dynamics and energy planning he was recruited by Eskom’s Pricing group to develop a time-of-use reactive energy pricing model, which was rolled out for all Eskom’s Large Power customers in the 1990’s.

Rob fulfilled various senior technical/managerial roles in Eskom in the 1990’s in the integrated resource planning, demand side management, electricity pricing and energy trading environments, also serving on two Management Board sub-committees

Personal Life
Rob is married to Dierdre and have two sons, Jared and Travis, both in their mid-20. Rob have passion for Mountain Biking, enjoying multi-day day stage races such as the Cape Epic. He Also participate in other sporting activities such as Kite-boarding, Golf and Road Cycling.