Business Talk – Herholdt’s Group’s Lukas Stoltz on the company’s core offerings and use of AI
In this Business Talk with Michael Avery interview, Herholdt’s Group’s Regional Sales Manager, Lukas Stoltz, discusses the company’s core offerings and how it is embracing technology.
Stoltz holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computers and Programming from the University of Pretoria and an MBA from Concordia University.
He began his career as an engineer at Zoetix in 2003. Two years later, Stoltz joined Flextronics as a hardware engineer, and in 2007, he became an electronic design engineer at Crabtree.
Stoltz then joined Panaxion as a consultant in 2009, before taking on a role as a programmer and manager at Hanbay in Montreal, Canada.
He stayed in Canada for over a decade, working at Hanbay for six years and then joining Tiptol Solutions as the General Manager.
In 2023, Stoltz joined Herholdt’s Group as the Technical Manager, before taking on his current role as the group’s Regional Sales Manager in October 2025.
Business Talk interview
In this interview, Stoltz begins by unpacking Herholdt’s history and its core offerings.
He explains how South Africans can differentiate trustworthy actors in the renewable energy sector – like Herholdt’s – from illegitimate actors.
Stoltz then talks about how Herholdt’s is embracing modern technology to take its offerings to new heights through features like AI-powered load balancing.
He also discusses the group’s embrace of energy system arbitrage and why this approach is impactful.
Finally, Stoltz highlights where he sees the most opportunities in the sector in terms of new markets and technologies.
Watch the full interview with Lukas Stoltz below.
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