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Patrick Clasen

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Location: Pennsylvania

Patrick Clasen is a dedicated professional at Aperture, where he plays a pivotal role in contributing to the water sector with a focus on marine conservation. His work is deeply involved in restoring coral reefs and supporting coral spawning activities, both in natural settings and in controlled environments. Patrick’s expertise lies in utilizing advanced technologies such as sophisticated controllers, monitors, and water analyzers. These tools enable him to measure essential parameters like calcium, alkalinity, pH, magnesium, nitrates, and phosphates, which are crucial for maintaining the health of marine ecosystems.

With a background in oceanography, Patrick brings a wealth of knowledge to the HydroDAO community. His objective is to highlight the vital connection between healthy ocean life and the overall well-being of humanity. He understands that the ocean is not just a separate entity, but an integral part of the global ecosystem that has a profound impact on human life.

Patrick is committed to demonstrating how enhancing marine environments can lead to broader positive impacts, not only for marine life but also for people and the planet as a whole. His work at Aperture and involvement with HydroDAO underscore his dedication to making a meaningful difference in the world by promoting the health and sustainability of our oceans.

Wayne Byrne

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Location: Ireland

Wayne Byrne is an experienced CEO and a distinguished serial entrepreneur, well-known for his successful track record in nurturing start-ups and growth-oriented businesses. His career stands as a testament to his ability to blend enthusiastic leadership with robust team-building skills, underpinned by an extensive commercial acumen. Byrne’s approach to business is characterized by a highly analytical mindset and a deep financial awareness, which have been crucial in identifying growth accelerators and inhibitors, and in steering businesses towards success.

Byrne’s expertise lies in crafting and executing innovative strategies for business expansion, always aiming for win/win outcomes. His leadership style is inclusive and team-oriented, focusing on building high-performing teams that drive businesses forward. With a keen eye for commercial strategy, Byrne has honed his skills in mentoring and coaching, negotiation, and raising capital, reflecting his comprehensive understanding of the business world.

His strategic focus is notably on Climatetech and Water, areas that are increasingly critical in today’s context of environmental sustainability and technological advancement. Byrne’s interest in these sectors demonstrates his commitment to leveraging technology and innovation for sustainable development. Additionally, he exhibits a strong interest in Non-Executive roles, where he can impart his wealth of experience and insights to guide other organizations. Byrne’s multifaceted career and strategic focus highlight his adaptability and forward-thinking approach in the ever-evolving landscape of business and technology.

Peer Erickson

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Location: Colorado

Peer Erickson has been a prominent figure in the landscape and irrigation industry for over three decades. His career trajectory is marked by significant evolution, beginning with hands-on experience as a laborer and eventually culminating in the establishment and management of his own large-scale enterprise. This extensive journey through various facets of the industry has endowed him with a comprehensive understanding of both the practical and managerial aspects of landscape and irrigation.

Experience and Skills:

– Years of Experience: Over 30 years in landscape and irrigation.

– Career Path: Progressed from a laborer to the owner of a large-scale business.

– Expertise: Specializes in the design and installation of irrigation systems.

– Business Management: Proficient in running a successful business with a focus on high-quality service delivery.

Current Focus:

Erickson’s current professional focus is centered around the design and installation of irrigation systems. He is committed to utilizing water as efficiently as possible, which not only reflects his expertise in irrigation but also his dedication to environmental sustainability.

Interest in Water Conservation:

– Core Principle: Water conservation is the fundamental principle that underpins every design that Peer Erickson and his team provide.

– Quality Control: Through direct involvement in installation and construction management, Erickson ensures the highest level of quality control, thereby achieving exceptional results for clients.

– Sustainability: His interest in water stems from a deep-rooted commitment to sustainability. Erickson recognizes the critical importance of water as a resource and is driven by the desire to optimize its use in landscape and irrigation while minimizing waste.

– Innovative Approaches: He continuously explores innovative methods to incorporate water conservation techniques into his designs, reflecting both his expertise and his environmental stewardship.

Client Impact:

Erickson’s approach to water conservation not only benefits the environment but also provides long-term value to his clients by ensuring efficient and sustainable use of resources in their landscaping projects.

Robert Burger

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Location: Scarborough

Robert Burger is a dynamic innovator in the field of water supply and quality solutions, specializing in the aggregation and commercialization of advanced nanobubble technologies. His career is marked by a commitment to revolutionizing water management and quality enhancement through continuous innovation. Burger excels in combining existing technological processes with new tools and methodologies, focusing on creating solutions that not only advance business efficiency but also profitability. His achievements include the development of quick, low-cost food pesticide analysis using lateral flow assay, which has significantly improved residential lawn pesticide and insecticide detection screening. Furthermore, he has pioneered alternative chemical analysis methods that provide real-time, actionable data for hazardous waste investigations, drastically reducing both time and costs. In addition, Burger has enhanced soil extraction techniques for organic nitrogen analysis and developed an interactive process that merges hydraulic equipment sampling of water, soil, and vapor with mobile chemical analysis, offering a more efficient alternative to conventional methods.

Currently, Burger is engaged in several groundbreaking projects, including the development of algorithms for agricultural soil analysis to enable predictive crop growth scenarios. He is also investigating the use of high-concentration oxygen additions for the degradation of petroleum in soil and water, and the utilization of biological-based sensors to improve water usage in crop and turf irrigation. His professional philosophy centers on the pursuit of innovative and efficient technological applications, aiming to create sustainable and environmentally friendly solutions. Burger’s vision and expertise not only contribute to the technological field but also significantly impact environmental conservation and resource management.

Stewart Flink

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Location: Chicago/Nashville

Flink, the visionary founder of Dillon Capital, has steered the firm towards a dedicated focus on health, wellness, and longevity sectors post-Covid-19, emphasizing areas like water purification, precision medicine, and sustainable biotech solutions. Under his leadership, Dillon Capital has become a catalyst for innovation in these vital sectors.

Recently, Flink has also ventured into the literary world with his debut novel, ‘For All the Water’. The book delves into the pressing issue of global freshwater scarcity and the potential for future water conflicts, reflecting Flink’s deep concern for environmental sustainability. To raise awareness about these issues, he is actively engaged in podcasts and TV interviews across the U.S., discussing the critical need for water conservation and management.

In alignment with his commitment to social responsibility, Flink is donating 10% of the net proceeds from his novel to support vital research in water-related areas and to assist non-profits that work globally to provide access to fresh water.

Since its inception in 1998, Dillon Capital has been at the forefront of guiding companies to exponential growth, with Flink’s strategic vision and hands-on approach leading to over $850 million invested in various enterprises. Flink’s business acumen and his four-decade-long experience in building strategic relationships have enabled Dillon Capital to have a significant impact on small and micro-cap companies, both public and private. The firm’s global footprint extends across the U.S., Canada, Israel, South America, Southeast Asia, and Europe, reflecting its broad and diverse investment philosophy.

Flink’s multifaceted career, spanning finance and environmental advocacy, positions him as a unique figure in the business world, combining a sharp investment strategy with a passion for addressing some of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time.

Rhiana Sherwood

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Location: San Diego, CA

Rhiana Sherwood is an energetic communications, PR, and marketing professional whose diverse background encompasses healthcare, higher education, recruiting, event planning, corporate relations, business development, TV news, and media. Leveraging her extensive experience in crafting compelling narratives and building strong relationships, Rhiana has recently ventured into the water sector as a proud member of HydroDAO. In this role, she is dedicated to using her skills to raise awareness about critical water-related issues, promote sustainable water management practices, and foster community engagement in water conservation. Rhiana’s involvement in HydroDAO allows her to combine her passion for effective communication and community building with the urgent need to address water sustainability challenges. She is committed to making a meaningful impact in the water community by facilitating dialogues, leading marketing initiatives, and driving PR strategies that highlight the importance of water resources and the innovative solutions being developed in this field.

Veda Austin

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Location: New Zealand

Veda Austin is a New Zealand water researcher, author, artist and mother of three. For nearly a decade she has been photographing water in a ‘state of creation’, the state between liquid and ice that she believes is responsive to consciousness. Veda views this important phase from three perspectives. Scientifically, water is becoming a liquid crystal, artistically, water is free to design, and from a spiritual level, water enters a phase of fluidity between space and time, and is in a place of ‘becoming’.

Her desire to find a unifying force that upheld the principles of life, nature, and the cosmos manifested when she began her journey with water at the deepest of levels. Inspired by the genius of Viktor Schauberger, Marcel Vogel, Theodor Schwenk and Rudolf Steiner, Veda embraced a Goethean approach, weaving science with phenomena based learning and years of refined observation. For her, water is not limited, it enters the bodies of people as freely as it enters the bodies of ants…it can be found in the Heavens as well as the Earth, and it never dies, it is always reincarnating between liquid, solid and gas. Veda believes water is FLOW…it does what it is.

With such an extensive collection of macroscopic photographs Veda’s work could easily baffle the rational mind, but by sheer consistency and quantity cannot be disregarded. In fact, Veda believes that through this medium of art an emotional connection can be formed with water, and that this is key to creating change in the way we treat our natural world. She says, “If we think water can feel, we will care for it. If we think it is intelligent, we will learn from it.”

Veda’s passion for water extends out of the freezer and into primary schools where she donates time teaching water science and cleverly intertwines it with art projects. She loves to reconnect children to the living water systems inside and outside of their bodies, believing that the ‘tamariki’ (children) are the water bearers of the future.

“Water is the rebel element, it won’t conform to the laws of physics or gravity and it can’t be killed. Without it there is no life. It reincarnates for all to see and science tells us it came to Earth from outer space. Rebellious, nonconformist, eternal and alien…..just look at the power we are filled with.” – Veda Austin

Giulio Boccaletti

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Location: London, United Kingdom

For the last 20 years, Giulio’s work has been at the intersection of geophysical and ecological science, public policy, and business strategy. Water security and our relationship with Earth’s climate are particular interests of his.

He started out as a scientist, working on climate dynamics and physical oceanography at Bologna University, Princeton University, where he was a NASA Earth Systems Science Fellow, and MIT.

He then went into business, working for global consultancy McKinsey & Company, where he ultimately became a partner, one of the leaders of its Sustainability and Resource Productivity practice, and the co-founder of its Water practice. During his time there, he produced several public reports on key sustainability issues, including carbon and water security strategies for countries, the role of ICT sector in the climate transition, the economics of climate adaptation, and the economics of water security.

After his experience in the private sector, he joined the Nature Conservancy, first as its Global Managing Director for Water, then as its Chief Strategy Officer.

For his work on water, the World Economic Forum nominated him a Young Global Leader in 2014. He has been a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Water and Global Futures Council on Natural Resource Security.

His book Water: A Biography, a history of the relationship between society and water, was rated by The Economist as one of the best books of 2021.

Dolf Zantinge

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Location: Netherlands

Dolf Zantinge is a pioneer IT entrepreneur with a background in fiber optics, telecommunications, data mining, enterprise solutions, and artificial intelligence. He is the founder and creator of the Analemma water wand and one of the co-creators of Somarka Coherent Water.

Early in his career, he co-founded Syllogic, an international IT firm integrating artificial intelligence, machine learning, and database management systems, sold eventually to Perot Systems, where he became a European Director.

Later he worked for KPN, the largest Dutch telecommunications company, where, as Director of IT, he was responsible for IT Research and Development for new technology. He went on to found and Chair UNET, one of the first fiber optics companies in Europe.

He is widely published in the field of technical innovation and the influence of technology on society and is an adviser to organizations and governments on issues relating to innovation, cleantech, and renewable energy. Dolf’s career took a fascinating turn when he pursued the study of Chinese Medicine/Acupuncture and began seriously exploring the biological impacts of electromagnetic frequencies.

For the past two decades, his focus has been on researching electromagnetic fields and their influence on biophotonics, water, light, and system physiology. Dolf has documented important insights about the supercomputing power and energy of water and developed new innovations that will be game-changing for advancement in the water industry.

Philippe Cousteau

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Company: SeaWeed Naturals

Location: Los Angeles, California

Inspired by the legacy of his grandfather Jacques Cousteau, Philippe is a multi Emmy-Nominated TV host and producer as well as an acclaimed author, speaker, and social entrepreneur.

As a social entrepreneur, Philippe is the co-founder of SeaWeed Naturals, a wellness brand that is combining the powerful benefits of restoratively farmed marine ingredients like seaweed and algae and regeneratively farmed land ingredients to create a whole new category of Land x Sea Wellness. As an impact brand, SeaWeed Naturals is committed to building a restorative economy and restoring the health and wellness of our customers AND the planet.

For six seasons, from 2014 to 2020, Philippe was the host and executive producer of the multi-Emmy nominated weekly syndicated series Awesome Planet.

Recently Philippe and his wife Ashlan were the stars of The Travel Channel’s hit series Caribbean Pirate Treasure; winner of a Cynopsis Media Award for Best Adventure Reality Series. In 2016 Philippe teamed up with his wife Ashlan to co-host Nuclear Sharks, the #1 show for Discovery’s Shark Week. In 2015, they co-hosted a three-part series with Takepart.com, exploring tiger and rhino conservation in Nepal called Treasures of the Terai.

As a special correspondent for CNN, he has hosted several award-winning shows, including his series Going Green which ran for four years and the 8-part special Expedition Sumatra. Philippe has also hosted and produced television programs for Animal Planet and the 8-part series Oceans for the BBC and Discovery Channel.

His conservation efforts are focused on solving global social and environmental problems. In 2005 he founded EarthEcho International; a leading environmental education organization that is building a global youth movement to restore and protect our ocean planet. To date, EarthEcho has activated over 2 million youth in 146 countries through its programs.

As an author, Philippe’s children’s book, Follow the Moon Home has been chosen for the prestigious Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List. In addition, he has co-written, Going Blue and Make a Splash, both of which have won multiple awards, including Learning Magazine’s 2011 Teachers’ Choice Award for the Family, a Gold Nautilus Award, and a 2010 ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Gold Award. His new book series, The Endangereds, with Harper Collins, launched in September of 2020 and his latest book, Oceans for Dummies, which he co-authored with his wife Ashlan was released in February 2021.

Philippe holds an honorary doctorate in marine biology from the University of Plymouth in England. He is a sought-after speaker having hosted and keynoted various events for the United Nations, Harvard University, the University of Florida, the Society of Environmental Journalists, The Economist Magazine global summit, and countless corporate events and global conferences. He has testified before Congress several times and serves on the Boards of Antarctica 2020, Green 2.0, and the Environmental Media Association as well as the National Council of the World Wildlife Fund.

Philippe and his wife, fellow adventurer and TV host Ashlan Cousteau, reside in Los Angeles, California with their two daughters, two chickens, and rescue dog Kenai.