Management

Martin Schlerka (CEO), managing partner:

• Sales
• Project Management
• Marketing
• Research & Development
• Biogas OPO
• Accounting
• Human Resources

Martin Schlerka, who joined Biogest in 1998, is the CEO. He has been managing the company since 1999. During this period he also held other roles in Austria and abroad for the owner of the Biogest brand at that time, a listed environmental engineering group.

After graduating in environmental engineering at Vienna University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Mr Schlerka worked for several consulting engineering firms. He also qualified as a consulting engineer himself. 

Mr Schlerka is married and has three children.

Gerald Bartl (CTO), managing partner:

• Engineering Planning
• Quality Management and Documentation
• Production
• Project Development

Gerald Bartl-Fauler is Biogest’s CTO and has been managing the company since 2007. After joining Biogest in 1997, he was responsible for managing international biogas and wastewater projects.

Mr Bartl has a degree in environmental engineering from Vienna University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences.

He is married and has one child.

Martin Hornhuber (COO), authorised signatory and partner:

• Commissioning
• After Sales Service 
• Purchasing
• Legal

Martin Hornhuber is the company’s COO and has had full signing powers since 2007.

After joining Biogest in 2005, he was initially responsible for managing international biogas and wastewater projects.

Mr Hornhuber is married and has two children.