Our Strengths

To design and develop highly sensitive technical components, our team must form a harmonious unit. That is why a managing director with expertise in the field and a project manager oversee every project. The business and project managers develop the fundamental aspects jointly.

Furthermore, we place the greatest emphasis on intense collaboration with our customers. This leads to ideal results and to certainty throughout the process.

• TEAM SPIRIT: Collaboration is a value to us. It is one of those aspects that allows us to achieve the most important goals.
• RESPONSIBILITY: From an individual’s responsibility to the team’s responsibility. At M.L.S.E this word means Responsibility for everything, at every level. Responsibility brings pride and a sense of ownership guaranteeing the best results.
• TRUST: Trust is the way we operate in all the relationships we foster.



Our Values

We strongly believe that the core values are the foundation for a great Company. At M.L.S.E we can say that our values guide us in our daily work, both internally and with our customers.

• ENTHUSIASM: Passion, commitment and motivation. We believe that these are the key aspects which make the difference.
• INTEGRITY: We build and develop relationships based on honesty and integrity at every level. The only way to guarantee a long lasting and productive relationship.
• CARING ABOUT PEOPLE: We strongly believe in training and in the opportunity for everyone to grow professionally.



Who We Are

M.L.S.E is a team of highly motivated and experienced engineers, each a professional and expert in their own domain. Our engineers are at home on the shop floor, capable of building what they have designed, and at home in the office, leading their team, suppliers and communicating transparency with our customer.

We trust each team member and each team member trust the team to do whatever needs to be done to get the job completed, on time, within budget, and the best quality

Markus Scholten, Owner of M.L.S.E, grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa, and graduated from the John Orr Technical College with a degree in Civil Engineer and Building construction. Even though his dream profession was to be a professional cyclist first and an Architect second, he's father (owner of a sheet-metal production company) wanted him to be a mechanical engineer. Markus has always had a passion for cars and started working on and restoring cars at the age of 14. His first project was a 1964 Type 1 VW Crew-Cab that he bought with money he won through cycling. Markus, a very ambitious cyclist in his youth and at age 20 Markus signed with a pro cycling team in Germany and the future as a professional looked bright! Unfortunately, the European pro cycling career was short lived as a serious accident force Markus to rethink his life and future.

Already in Germany and the passion for cars still very much alive, Markus was able to secure an apprenticeship spot rarely given to outsiders and never to foreigners at Wilhelm Karmann GmbH, creators of the famous Karmann Ghia. Their program was considered one of the very best in Germany. Graduating top 10 of Niedersachsen (a state in the Northern part of Germany) Markus was hired into Karmann's prototype shop as a 1st Class sheet metal body builder. With a stable income and a great job Markus continued cycling as a semi-pro. Building prototype car from hand out of a flat piece of sheet-metal was an exciting and very rewarding job. But eager to make it to the next level Markus participated in every technical training program he's job offered, achieving certifications in Project management, communication in crisis, and welding to name just a few. Markus made the moved from the shop to the office and was promoted to designer and module lead.

Markus further expanded his career by attending an evening college to study Mechanical Engineering focusing on sheet-metal, structures and automotive development.

Markus has worked in every segment of the automotive industry researching, developing, and building concept show cars, prototypes, test and evaluation vehicles all the way to mass production assembly lines and vehicles.