Company: Cabomba
Location: Chicago, Illinois
I am a startup co-founder. Our solution can remove nano contaminant that no other filters can’t and reduces energy of filtration by 50%. Our solution can be modularized from a form factor of a bottle to plant scale filtration system.
Company: Arrow Electronics
Location: Denver, Colorado
Jacob is a sustainability professional with a technical education in Environmental Engineering currently working for Arrow Electronics and building experience in carbon emission reporting, decarbonization initiatives, and sustainability strategy development. He takes pride in meeting every challenge head-on and in ensuring that his career is having a positive impact on the world.
Company: 501CTHREE.ORG
Jaron Rothkop is Director at 501CTHREE.ORG where he is working with Jaden Smith and Drew FitzGerald to bring clean water to Flint and other communities in crisis. Previously, he was President of The Last Kilometer, a nonprofit focused on clean energy policy and technology. From 2012-2016, Jaron was President and CTO of ZeroBase Energy, a leading designer and manufacturer of solar hybrid power systems and clean energy microgrids for governments and commercial/industrial customers. From 2012-2016, Jaron was an investment advisor to Pegasus Capital, LLP a private equity fund manager focused on global resource scarcity.
Company: Aliaxis
Location: Brussels, Belgium
After 18 years in strategy consulting, investment banking and M&A in healthcare, Fabian joined Aliaxis as Group Head of Venturing to start and run Aliaxis Ventures – a unique corporate VC focusing on smarter water management and leveraging the capabilities of the Aliaxis Group (a leader in piping systems) to bring value to their portfolio companies and support innovation in water management.
Company: Aliaxis
Location: Brussels, Belgium
After 18 years in strategy consulting, investment banking and M&A in healthcare, Fabian joined Aliaxis as Group Head of Venturing to start and run Aliaxis Ventures – a unique corporate VC focusing on smarter water management and leveraging the capabilities of the Aliaxis Group (a leader in piping systems) to bring value to their portfolio companies and support innovation in water management.
Company: Watergen
Location: Israel
Bringing about 20 years’ experience successfully building sales teams and results, across versatile international markets, mainly in HLS and Military Tech and other tech’ global arena.
Currently heading sales efforts in LATAM for WATERGEN, an Israeli innovation tech’ company in the field of generating high quality drinking water from air.
Last position managing over 100 reps/agents worldwide. Sales management of $MM a year with growth, developing and opening new markets (US, East Asia, Latin America, Gulf Countries). Multi lingual in 5 languages.
Company: Saur
Location: Paris, France
Florian is the Head of Aquaverse, the Innovation Studio of Saur. Aquaverse is a do-tank that gathers stakeholders in the water sector to collaborate, by exploring common challenges and co-designing new models and solutions.
Company: Seth M. Siegel
Location: New York City, NY
Seth M. Siegel is a serial entrepreneur, water activist, and a New York Times bestselling author. His critically acclaimed award-winning book Let There Be Water: Israel’s Solution for a Water-Starved World has been published in 20 languages and is on sale in more than 50 countries. His second book, Troubled Water: What’s Wrong with What We Drink, sets forth an ambitious agenda for a fundamental rethinking of America’s drinking water system. Seth’s most recent book, Other People’s Words: Wisdom for an Inspired and Productive Life, is an inspirational/motivational book that reflects his lifetime collection of inspirational quotations.
In addition to his books, Seth is a Senior Fellow at the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Water Policy and currently is the Chief Sustainability Officer of N-Drip – a revolutionary AgTech start-up. His commentary on a range of topics has appeared in many leading publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Seth has spoken on water issues at more than 325 venues in 68 cities, 26 states, and on four continents–and during the Coronavirus lockdown, to dozens of others via video.
Company: VAPAR
Location: Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom
As VAPAR’s CEO, Amanda co-founded the company with a vision to bring emerging technology into the Asset Management space and revolutionise the way infrastructure is tracked, repaired, and maintained.
With a background in civil engineering, Amanda used to manually review CCTV pipe inspection videos for 8 hours a day at the beginning of her career. Since then, she has worked in design, construction and remediation of drainage and sewer pipes for the public sector.
Having guided VAPAR from infancy into an international growth stage, VAPAR now analyzes over two hundred thousand metres of wastewater infrastructure for dozens of clients across Australia, New Zealand, and the UK.
Company: Water and Wellness
Location: Reno, NV
Robert Slovak devoted himself to the science of water after life-altering experiences. He took his astronautical and mechanical engineering degrees and decided to pursue the research of reverse osmosis with his brother Jack. The dynamic duo were considered the early developers of Reverse Osmosis technology.
Robert is best known for co-founding Water Factory Systems in the early 1970’s. He and his brother were among the early developers of Reverse Osmosis (RO) technology and its many applications.
Their successful innovations encompassed home and office RO drinking water systems, bottled water production, laboratory purification, hemodialysis, seawater desalination, microchip production, bottled water production, water vending, spot-free vehicle washing and more.
As a result of the rapid growth of RO applications, Robert’s ongoing seminars, and a best-selling industry book on the subject of POU (Point of Use) RO, he became a well-known figure in the water industry. In 1989 Water Factory Systems was purchased by CUNO Inc, a global leader in fluid treatment. Since then, it was acquired by the 3M Corporation, which continues to market many of their original products.