Speakers 2023 Archives - Page 6 of 10

Mark England, VP of Innovation, Sensing and Engineering Excellence, Xylem

Mark holds a master’s degree and Ph. D in physics from Cambridge University (UK). He was a founding member of Sentec Ltd, a self-funded start-up company bridging the gap between disruptive new technologies and commercialization at scale. Sentec set up six... Read More

Corina Shika Kwami, Director of Strategy, Purpose

Dr Corina Shika Kwami is a musician, scientist and international storyteller. With a captivating storytelling style, she performs with her own band and led strategy and research in water governance, future cities and ESG in countries across the Americas, Europe,... Read More

Greg Newbloom, Founder & CEO, Membrion,

Dr. Newbloom is the Founder & CEO of Membrion, a clean tech start-up focused on recycling wastewater from harsh industrial processes. Membrion makes ceramic desalination membranes out of the same material as the silica gel desiccant packets found in the bottom of... Read More

Alireza Abbassi Monjezi, Founder and CEO, Waterwhelm

Dr Alireza Abbassi Monjezi is the Founder and CEO at Waterwhelm, and the inventor of the game-changing forward osmosis technology. Ali completed his PhD in 2016 on forward osmosis desalination and worked as a post-doctoral researcher for 3 years where he published... Read More

Rick Bacon, CEO, Aqua Metrology Systems

Rick Has been CEO of Aqua Metrology Systems since 2011. Prior to that he was Manager of Severn Trent Water’s European Water Treatment Technology Division. Rick has held senior executive and non-executive positions with several publicly quoted and private... Read More

Frank Rogalla, Director of Innovation and Technology, Aqualia

Frank Rogalla is Director of Innovation at Aqualia in Madrid, Spain, which provides water services for 20 M people. He studied Environmental Engineering in Germany, followed by a MSc as a Fulbright student in the US. After ten years at Veolia Research Center in... Read More

Kimberly Kupiecki, Senior Director, Gingko Bioworks

Kimberly Kupiecki is a Senior Director in the Sustainability & Energy Business Group at Ginkgo Bioworks. She is responsible for working with customers to develop sustainability applications leveraging Ginkgo’s horizontal synthetic biology platform including soil... Read More

Martino Finotelli, Platform Manager, BlueTech Research

Martino worked for 2 years as Project Engineer in the field of remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater, and for another 2 years in the lime and limestone industry as Water Market Analyst, before joining BlueTech in 2021 as Research... Read More

Corina Carpentier, Managing Director and Principal Scientist, Sensileau | Technology Assessment Group (TAG) Member

Corina Carpentier, PhD (Aquatic Ecotoxicology), has over 25 years’ experience in the field of (online) water quality monitoring, and she is the founder of Benten Water Solutions as well as the co-founder of the Sensileau knowledge-exchange platform. Her work centres... Read More

Hubert Fleming, Partner, Upwell Water | Technology Assessment Group (TAG) Member

Dr Hubert Fleming is a Partner, Upwell Water, a US-based investment firm. Hu is also Sr. Advisor, Morgan Stanley, Loeb Partners, and World Bank, as well as other investment committees. He’s former President, Severn Trent Services and Global Managing Director, Hatch.... Read More

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