Steve Delson Email & Phone Number

Irvine, California, Us

Steve Delson is a co-founder and CEO of Gate 5, a 12-year old Orange County California based startup that has developed infrastructure that fights climate change with a scalable, innovative and sustainable process that transforms sewage sludge and other organic waste materials into 100% safe, usable, and marketable products, including clean water and surplus renewable energy. Gate 5 Infrastructure is self-powered using energy it produces; rather than grid electricity or fossil fuel. Being a thermal process, Gate 5 Infrastructure will destroy contaminants of concern (like microplastics and pharmaceuticals) that survive traditional wastewater management, and our process reduces methane to 1/600th of today treatment plants, while eliminating biosolids (treated sludge) that needs to be hauled away and land-managed. Gate 5 has recently received a $1.6 million grant from the California Energy Commission that combined with funding from Gate 5 investors will fund installation and operation of a Gate 5 demonstration plant at Santa Margarita Water District’s Chiquita Water Reclamation Plant in southern Orange County.

Real estate development.

Utility service provider.

Executive at one of the nation’s largest and most successful community developers, the Mission Viejo Company (MVC). For a five-year period concluding at the time Philip Morris Companies divested itself of its real estate subsidiary in 1997, Delson was responsible for the company’s operations in California and Colorado.

Led the design, entitlement and construction of community-wide water reclamation system (including tertiary wastewater treatment plane, seasonal storage, operational storage and distribution system) for the Santa margarita Water District.

Consulting civil engineering firm.