BMT, an international multi-disciplinary engineering, science, and technology company, has appointed Peter Behrendt as its global director of strategy and innovation. The announcement coincides with BMT receiving recognition and being selected by Australian Financial Review as one of Australasia’s “Most Innovative Companies for 2020″.
Behrendt joined BMT in 2017 as managing director for the Australian Defence and Security business. A role that he has now handed over to Chelly Litster, who has been with BMT since the acquisition of Effectiva in 2018.
Behrendt is an experienced business leader whose background includes operational, commercial, and business development positions within leading international companies, including spending nine-years with SAAB. In his new role he will lead the team responsible for developing, executing, and articulating BMT’s corporate strategy.
“I am delighted to have someone of Pete’s calibre in this new role leading strategy and innovation. We have an ambitious and exciting strategy to grow, helping our customers to solve evermore complex and challenging problems. I know Pete will bring great energy and insight to this important role,” said BMT Chief Executive Officer Sarah Kenny.
Commenting on his new role, Behrendt said, “I look forward to making a real difference to some of the global challenges that our customers face. It is about us being passionate about our ‘four core sectors’ in an era of renewed great power competition, ongoing naval modernisation and military expansion efforts, and as well while defence expenditure and procurement trends are on the up for the rising powers located in emerging markets.
“BMT is now looking to replicate its global successes as ‘The Maritime Pioneer’, within the APAC region. The strategy is all the more timely for this 2020/21, as at the epicentre of the world’s maritime technology revolution, BMT is recognised as the ‘tech behind the tech’. Having launched several exciting innovations for Maritime including TUFLOW, REMBRANDT, SARIS, BMT DEEP, MATE, several Digital Data Transformation platforms and proprietary machine learning risk modelling applications. In addition, through the pursuit of new venture opportunities BMT will seek to build on its global brand presence and cultivate growth and value in its emerging portfolios,” Behrendt said.
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