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Fresno, California, United States

We envision a world with clean water for all children—and a museum telling of when it was not so.Our mission is simple: To change the lives of vulnerable children in impoverished urban areas by providing clean, safe drinking water to orphanages, schools, children’s hospitals, street shelters, and rescue homes.Every NGO says, at one point or another, they wish to put themselves out of business. We mean it. By 2020 we will provide reliable, clean water to at least 1 million children in 16 countries—but that is not our end goal; by 2030 we will have built out the systems, structure, skills, service, and supply chains necessary for us to have fully exited these countries, leaving behind thriving, self-sustaining, locally-driven industries that eliminate—permanently—the need for similar foreign NGOs or intervention.

Coronado, California, United States

Greater San Diego Area

Water Pigeon delivers a fast, simple, secure way to implement automated water metering. Water Pigeon enables water utilities to get Automated Metering Infrastructure (AMI) capability without replacing water meters or building private wireless networks, hence, significantly reducing capital investment and deployment time.

Greater San Diego Area

Summit Water Capital Advisors specializes in diversified investment strategies designed to deliver professional, well-managed exposure to the global water industry for both institutional and retail clients. Summit Water is widely recognized as a pioneer and thought leader in the water investment space, having deployed more than $1 billion into a theme that has become the focus of growing investor attention due to its major global economic and social impact.

Greater San Diego Area

Summit Water Infrastructure Group (SWIG) is an alternative investment platform launched by Summit Water Capital Advisors that is initially pursuing a pipeline of small to medium-sized water infrastructure investments in project finance structures with the goal of delivering long-term, stable income to institutional investors.SWIG was established in 2014 to address the unprecedented infrastructure investment needs that are emerging due to the increasing water scarcity, water pollution, the inefficient use of water and waste water resources and the inability of traditional financing sources to address these looming issues.Our current investment focus is in decentralized water and waste water treatment and reuse, waste water-to-energy and oilfield water treatment and disposal.

Summit Global Management is a San Diego-based investment management firm with an unrivaled, 30-year specialization in global hydrocommerce and other industries directly impacted by water.Summit is widely recognized as the earliest proponent of specialized water investment strategies, creating a theme that has become the focus of growing attention for its major global economic and industrial impact. Rob serves as the Business Development Manager at Summit Global and is specifically focused on linking Summit's specific water strategies to the wider universe of the global water markets, specifically focused on water-energy nexus project development, finance and acquisition opportunities. Rob is currently leading Summit’s project sourcing and management efforts in decentralized water and wastewater treatment and reuse, wastewater-to-energy and produced water treatment and disposal.

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

Our mission is to change the way the world uses water. Using our advanced technology solutions, water utilities are able to better educate their consumers about how much water their household is using, how it compares to others and how they can save water and money. These benefits translate into significant system-wide savings for utilities in the form of avoided costs for water, energy, treatment, and future capital investments which helps ensure sufficient supplies of our most precious resource for all our communities.Peter Yolles and Rob Steiner founded WaterSmart Software in November 2009. After extensive careers focused on water management, they identified an opportunity to develop a unique combination of behavioral psychology, big data analytics, and cloud computing to improve global water-use efficiency. After winning an inaugural Imagine H2O water technology prize, the company set about building out the tools needed to realize its vision. From its first utility customer in 2011 through today, the company has continued to forge a path of technological innovation in the water industry, and is truly beginning to change the way the world uses water. WaterSmart was a winner of Imagine H2O’s inaugural water efficiency prize in March 2010. WaterSmart is based in California with offices in San Francisco and San Diego.

Greater San Diego Area

I am helping grow a high-powered startup focused on precision irrigation and crop management. GroGuru enables growers to efficiently utilize limited water resources to help manage costs by providing them with real time and historical soil moisture, salinity, and temperature data.

Aquillian Investments is a boutique investment firm exclusively focused on environmental sustainability. The firm has evolved from its founding as a mission-oriented broker-dealer, expanding its service offering over time by developing increased competence in underlying sectors related to sustainability.The core of what Aquillian does is combine expertise in sustainability with rigorous due diligence, to identify and evaluate superior investment opportunities that also offer significant environmental benefits. For a number of years the firm has been moving toward developing its own investment vehicles, the first of which is the Ecosystem Integrity Fund. In addition to investment capability, Aquillian also provides consulting to investors, advisory services to companies, and capital raising assistance on a selective basis for companies and funds.The firm is driven by the belief that private capital has an important role to play in the promotion of sustainability. Market-based solutions can in many cases offer the best means to achieve the widespread adoption and scale needed to have a significant impact on the important environmental problems faced by society.

Aquillian Investments was a boutique investment firm exclusively focused on environmental sustainability. The firm evolved from its founding as a mission-oriented broker-dealer, expanding its service offering over time by developing increased competence in underlying sectors related to sustainability. It's Partners have moved on to launch the Ecosystem Integrity Fund, Growth Capital Services and MOTIV.The core of what Aquillian did was to combine expertise in sustainability with rigorous due diligence, to identify and evaluate superior investment opportunities that also offer significant environmental benefits. For a number of years the firm had been moving toward developing its own investment vehicles, the first of which was the Ecosystem Integrity Fund. In addition to investment capability, Aquillian also provided consulting to investors, advisory services to companies, and capital raising assistance on a selective basis for companies and funds.The firm was driven by the belief that private capital has an important role to play in the promotion of sustainability. Market-based solutions can in many cases offer the best means to achieve the widespread adoption and scale needed to have a significant impact on the important environmental problems faced by society.

Cofounded and managed a safe drinking water nonprofit organization on behalf of philanthropist Kenneth Behring. Executed projects in China and Mexico.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

B.S.

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