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Chris Fortunato

LinkedIn

Company: CRH Ventures

Location: New York City, New York

I invest in technology-enabled and internet businesses at CRH Ventures. I have been making venture capital investments across the globe for more than 10 years and, today, I am most interested in working with entrepreneurs driving Industry 4.0 and revolutionizing the way companies manufacture, advance and distribute their products.

Steven Fox

LinkedIn

Company: Propeller

Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Partner at Propeller, an early stage climate-tech venture fund that invests in and builds ocean-climate companies that use science and technology to address the climate crisis. In partnership with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Anya Freeman

LinkedIn

Company: Kind Designs

Location: Miami, Florida

We are addressing rising sea-levels and failing conventional seawalls by 3D Printing living seawalls that are both structural and ecological .The seawalls protect communities from flooding and storm surges. They also function as an artificial reef, sequester carbon and have built-in sensors.

Karen Frost

LinkedIn

Company: The Water Council

Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

I lead three globally focused water tech innovation programs supporting startups in the industry, matchmaking and global economic development.

The Water Council is a global hub dedicated to solving critical water challenges by driving innovation in freshwater technology and advancing water stewardship.

Mike German

LinkedIn

Company: Amorphic Tech Ltd

Location: Brooklyn, New York

Product Manager and Founder with experience taking a Technology Product from ideation to launch with $10MN in revenue and 300,000 monthly active users.

Key Accomplishments:

1. Took a water technology platform from ideation to launch with 300,000 end-users to provide people in low-income countries with access to clean water.
2. Developed business model and lead Go-To-Market strategy generating $10MN in revenue.
3. Hired, managed, and mentored 100+ engineers, marketers, product managers across the organization.

Rakesh Govind

LinkedIn

Company: NextGen Septic

Location: Cincinnati, Ohio

I bring over 30 years of experience and expertise in wastewater treatment, water recycle and reuse. I obtained an MS and PhD in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and am currently a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

Over the last 30 years, I have researched biological and advanced oxidation treatment of complex wastewaters and polluted air streams. In 1996 I founded PRD Tech, Inc., which has designed several biofilters for treatment of polluted air from wood product industries, odor treatment systems for municipal treatment plants and industrial wastewater treatment skids.

My passion is helping industries achieve greater sustainability by treating wastewaters on-site followed by recycling and reusing the water to greatly reduce their water footprint. Through my expertise and deep understanding of treatment technologies, I can design and supply efficient and cost-effective treatment systems for emissions of polluted air and water from a wide variety of industries.

Troels Grene

LinkedIn

Company: Flow Loop

Location: Copenhagen, Denmark

By the end of 2018 I joined Flow Loop as co-founder. I choose to invest myself into Flow Loop because I want to contribute to make the world more sustainable. I want to use my interdisciplinary profile to bring Flow Loops sustainable shower to market. Flow Loop makes showering sustainable by recycling the water after purification. The shower consumes app. 40% of a household’s water consumption and 25% of the energy consumption.

Kasha Griva

LinkedIn

Company: MS4 Coordinator, Master Watershed Steward

Location: Lemoyne, Pennsylvania

I am a passionate advocate for clean air and clean water. As an MS4 Coordinator, Penn State Master Watershed Steward, Chesapeake Urban Stormwater Professional, and Certified Stormwater Inspector, I have spent many volunteer and professional hours learning about stormwater pollution and working in the field. I also educate children and adults about stormwater runoff and pollution, and how to create change for a better environment.

Johnny Alexander Gunneng

LinkedIn

Company: InfoTiles

Location: Norway

Johnny Alexander is the CEO of InfoTiles and a former Management Consultant turned into a water geek.

InfoTiles has its origin in between the fjords of Norway but extends far beyond Scandinavia.

In short, InfoTiles simplifies and automates the tedious steps of consolidating data, applying real time analytics and machine learning so water utilities can turn insights into actions and benefit from more efficient, sustainable operations.

Be like water and feel free to reach out for a glass of tap water.

Anders Hallsby

LinkedIn

Company: Mazarine Ventures

Location: Chicago, IL

Building bridges between technology and the marketplace, identifying opportunities and unmet needs, creating strategies for growth and leading execution. Strong technical background in combination with extensive commercial and sales experience.

Strategic thinker, business leader and people manager, willing to roll up my sleeves and do what it takes to achieve our goals. I have passion for building, creating and helping a business grow to its potential, while leveraging my skills, technical and commercial expertise.

Most of my career has been spent in water purification, working with different technologies (e.g. membranes, filtration, ion exchange, …). I have worked both in large multinational Fortune 500 companies and in small entrepreneurial start-ups, and have experience working with and developing solutions for both industrial (e.g. Food & beverage, Manufacturing, Microelectronics, Power, Chemical Process, Mining, Oil & Gas) and municipal customers.

Former board member of the Caribbean Desalination Association (CaribDA). Member of IDA, AMTA, WEF and SEDA.