Nick Harris

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Company: Watergen Ltd

Location: Charlotte, North Carolina

Extensive experience within the premium home décor and building materials industry driving both B2B and B2C marketing initiatives. Noteworthy brand builder and creative marketing strategist that delivers marketing ROI through rich and engaging consumer experiences.
Specialties:
Digital Marketing
Social Media Marketing
Mobile Marketing
Marketing Strategy
E-Commerce
Marketing
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SEM
Email Marketing
SEO
Brand Management
Brand Development
Content Marketing
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Ryan Harrison

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Company: Bowersox Investment Group

Location: Kennesaw, Georgia

Ryan brings over 15 years of successful experience in business development, project management, and strategic planning. Ryan is working with the team at BIG to see the vision and mission of the company realized while providing leadership and direction to the corporate team.

BIG’s Mission is to advance and revolutionize the construction, housing, and other highly pollutive industries from their antiquated states to one of efficiency and responsibility by leveraging technology and opportunity. BIG’s commitment is to provide innovative decarbonization solutions within an open source collaboration.

BIG’s Housing Goal by 2029 is to develop master-planned carbon positive communities that not only have complete zero carbon footprints for operative and embodied carbon, but have an overall net positive effect on the environment.

The Weekly Dive #16

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Philippe Cousteau joins us for our next Oceanside Chat! New School Food’s plant-based salmon raises $12M to scale its technology. Amazon’s Hippo Harvest is growing lettuce using 92% less water. AgFunder leads Mayani’s funding round to scale farm and fisheries produce marketplace. CropX acquires precision irrigation startup Tule. Scientists have discovered a new form of ice. This week, we are highlighting Jack Pan, one of HydroDAO’s key advisors. Learn about his impressive background and why he is passionate about water.

Your weekly Bonus – US climate funding could make water pollution worse, find out why.

 This week’s quote:

 

“Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can withstand it.” — Lao Tzu

New Oceanside Chat!!

Join Us for: Philippe Cousteau — Ocean of Hope with HydroDAO on February 21st!

For far too long the oceans have been seen as a victim. Philippe will explore how the oceans can be a source of solutions and source for many of our greatest challenges, from climate change, to food security.

What’s New with Water?

New School Foods Unveils Scalable Muscle Fiber and Scaffolding Technology for Whole-Cut Meat Alternatives 

The company has raised $12 million USD in funding to build a pilot facility and demonstrate the technology’s scalability.

Amazon introduces Hippo Harvest’s leafy greens line, grown with 92% less water

Backed by Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, Hippo Harvest’s process uses robotics and greenhouses to reduce food waste and land use.

New surveillance technology to stamp out illegal fishing in WA, Australia 

A nation-first trial using automated vessels to target illegal fishing is set to take place off Western Australia’s coast.

Water ATMs were introduced in Ghana – and are changing the way people drink 

They were installed at six water standpipes, five with a single ATM and a main station with two ATMs, together serving about 2,000 people.

What’s New in the Industry?

AgFunder impact fund leads Mayani’s $1.7m seed round to scale Filipino farm and fisheries produce marketplace 

The funding, which closed last year, was used to expand Mayani’s supply chain operations, widen its team and set up a farmer engagement division to enlarge its farmer footprint.

Xylem And Manchester City Bring Water Access And Education To Ghana 

The collaboration combined the love of football, water and community for a better future.

New cleantech match-maker for forestry, mining, water launched

A new B2B network is being launched to identify and adopt the best technology to reduce energy and emissions.

BREAKING: CropX acquires precision irrigation startup Tule, its fourth acquisition 

This is CropX’s fourth acquisition since early 2020 when it scooped up US-based CropMetrics.

What’s New in the Science?

Scientists Discover a Weird New Form of Ice That May Change How We Think About Water 

This is amorphous ice, a form not found in nature on Earth. That’s because its atoms are arranged not in a neat repeating crystalline pattern, but jumbled up all higgledy-piggledy, an atomic omnishambles.

Scientists introduced alligator DNA into catfish to create hybrid 

The disease-resistant catfish could one day be used for human consumption.

Scientists Create Biodegradable Plastic Using Solar Energy

The study documents the first time that fumaric acid has been successfully synthesized from carbon dioxide and sunlight.

Clean energy breakthrough produces hydrogen from sea water

A low-cost catalyst, cobalt oxide coated with chromium oxide, was used.

Our HydroDAO Advisors: Jack Pan

Jack Pan is an oceanographer, data scientist and entrepreneur at the forefront of climate change and sustainable energy. He has pioneered new ways to track glacial meltwater in the polar regions using satellite imagery and advanced machine learning. These techniques help decision-makers and stakeholders to better understand, predict and respond to a changing climate.

Jack is also the founder and CEO of Ocean Motion Technologies — a wave energy company that has received support from the United States Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, the California Energy Commission, and the Eastman Foundation. Ocean Motion is a Blue Tech company in the early stages of powering a paradigm shift to Big Blue Data and the Ocean of Things. It focuses on meeting power demands for big data at sea in ocean observation for tracking climate change, offshore aquaculture monitoring, and surveillance for coastal security applications. Jack is an advocate for an interconnected blue economy, and he is currently serving on the board of the Maritime Alliance and the Marine Technology Society’s SD Chapter.

In addition, Jack is a fellow at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he works on satellite remote sensing projects for monitoring coastal oceans. As a polar oceanographer, Jack has participated in several expeditions to Antarctica and is a recipient of the Antarctica Service Medal. He is also an avid traveler and photographer.

Thank you Jack for your work and leadership protecting the oceans and for your support to our HydroDAO community.

What’s in the Future?

‘A national scandal’: how US climate funding could make water pollution worse

The Inflation Reduction Act was hailed for its climate funding – but some are concerned several provisions will worsen a growing environmental disaster.

Joe Henderson

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Company: Onvector

Location: Philadelphia

Experienced CEO, turnaround executive and start-up leader with deep SaaS, manufacturing and applied engineering expertise. Seasoned leader with “Fortune 100” and middle market companies.
√ Proven leader of going, troubled or nascent businesses
√ Strategic thinker who delivers ROI and growth

WHO I AM: Performance-driven leader and operational executive who has managed multi-million $ P&L’s, and pre-revenue start-ups. “Swiss Army knife” executive and entrepreneur.

WHAT I DO: Build and motivate leadership teams. Strengthen tactical ‘battle rhythm’ that delivers measurable results, and better teams.

VALUE I BRING: Weed through the ‘BS’ and re-focus business. Play up company assets, and devise and implement creative operational and financial improvements that lead to revenues, income and success in the marketplace.

EXPERTISE & LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES
• Financial Leadership
• Business Operations
• Operational and Financial Turnaround
• Start-up Growth, Capitalization, and Staffing
• Contract Negotiations
• Leadership, Training, & Team Building
• Revenue & Profit Generation
• Strategic Sales & Tactical Alignment

David Hertz

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Company: Resilience Fund

Location: Malibu, California

Architect and educator specializing in Restorative Architecture. Inventor and innovator. 2022 Award winner for Climate Action from the White House Millennium Council’s National Design Award Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. Founder Skysource.org and the Skysource Resilience Labs. Inventor of WEDEW, the Grand Prize Winner of Water Abundance XPRIZE and Time’s Best Invention 2020. Co-founder and General partner of The Resilience Fund for Advancing Climate Technologies and The Resilience Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit to combat the world’s greatest challenges using the UN Sustainable Development Goals as a guiding framework.

Katherine Hill Ritchie

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Company: Private Capital Investments

Location: Washington D.C. & Baltimore, MD

Entrepreneurial MBA with 20 years of global investment, operational and board experience.

Investment experience: sourcing & due diligence of global investment strategies including early stage venture capital companies, private equity companies/funds & hedge funds

Operation experience at: fintech companies, venture capital funds, private equity, family offices, family-owned businesses and investment consultants.

Industry experience areas: technology, impact, edtech, fintech, consumer products, med devices, SaaS biotech, material science, industrial, renewable energy, IoT & services companies.

In 2009, I launched my own investment consulting firm, Private Capital Investments, LLC and have worked for 8 Single Family Offices (4 Billionaires), I am also am Angel investor, advise companies and currently I manage the Venture Capital Funds at TEDCO (tedco.md)

I am a frequent speaker & content provider for family office events, investment seminars and University lectures.

Dr. Eric Hoek

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Company: UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science

Location: Los Angeles, California

Dr. Eric Hoek is a professor in UCLA’s Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Institute of the Environment & Sustainability and the California NanoSystems Institute. He is also faculty director of the UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge, a campus-wide initiative to transform Los Angeles into the first sustainable megacity by 2050.

Dr. Hoek’s academic work explores the union of membrane technologies, nanomaterials and electrochemistry for a more sustainable future. He has also applied this knowledge as an entrepreneur having co-invented/founded several technology companies (e.g., NanoH2O, Water Planet, PolyCera, IntelliFlux) and as a consultant having advised various international, federal and California state agencies, municipalities, technology companies, investment funds, law firms and research funding agencies.

Dr. Hoek has worked on applications including drinking water treatment, wastewater treatment, ocean and brackish water desalination, municipal and industrial water reuse, oil & gas produced water treatment, oil spill remediation, salinity gradient power, biogas production, kidney dialysis and protein purification. He has over 130 peer-reviewed scientific publications, over 70 patents filed globally, is the co-Editor-in-Chief of The Encyclopedia of Membrane Science and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Nature journal npj Clean Water. Dr. Hoek has a Ph.D. from Yale University, M.S. from UCLA, B.S. from Penn State and completed UCLA Anderson’s Executive Management and Director Education & Certification Programs.

John Hogan

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Company: Veolia Water Technologies and Solutions

Location: New York City, New York

I develop digital solutions which allow water purification and wastewater processing to be more efficient. Specifically, I apply artificial intelligence to create applications for plant operations which reduce energy and resource consumption while providing a better product.

John Hogan

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Company: Veolia Water Technologies and Solutions

Location: New York City, New York

I develop digital solutions which allow water purification and wastewater processing to be more efficient. Specifically, I apply artificial intelligence to create applications for plant operations which reduce energy and resource consumption while providing a better product.

Achim Hoffmann

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Company: WOXON

Location: London, United Kingdom

Achim is the Founder of WOXON, a UK based Moonshot mission to counter the main Climate Change symptom: Global warming excess Heat. Heat that is conveniently 90%+ concentrated in one medium: Water.

Achim left his previous job in Venture Capital early 2022 to fully focus on the experimental proof-of-concept for a new aqueous heat conversion process applying some of the unusual and less well-known water capabilities.

On the side, Achim is a start-up mentor for the Royal Society of Chemistry in London and occasionally supports HydroDAO and the Everblue Ventures efforts with their investment Due Diligence.

Previously, Achim worked for IP Group plc as Investor, launching University spinouts by supporting Academics commercialising their patents with funding and business support. Achim also worked as a Strategy Consultant for McKinsey& Company in the Duesseldorf and London offices.

It was in his early career where his passion for water started when working for a German Fraunhofer Cleantech Institute as the membrane expert developing water treatment solutions for industrial clients.

He holds a strong believe that we have not even scratched the surface with regards to the capabilities of water and always welcomes discussions about observed unusual capabilities of water with the goal to find bridges to the classic sciences. Even when not involved professionally in water, he always kept a hobby home lab and workshop. Theory is nice, but experiments count.

Achim holds a Dipl.-Ing. degree in Chemical Engineering from Karlsruhe University, a Dr.-Ing. in Chemical Engineering from Dortmund University (focus on aqueous ion separation using charged nanofiltration membranes), and a Kellogg/Northwestern University MBA.