THALES WATER - Key Persons
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- Digital Transformation Expert
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- Founding Partner
- Managing Partner & Co - Founder / Former SVP - Wedbush Securities and Jefferies & Co
David L. Rose is a Founding Partner at Thales Water Advisors. David is the founder of H2O Insights a strategy & finance consultancy, where he has provided corporate, M&A, go-to-market, and investment strategy to corporations, PE firms and growth capital firms interested in the water sector.
David has been a leading expert on water investing for nearly a decade, and spent over 15 years as a senior equities analyst for investment banks including Jefferies & Company, and most recently Wedbush Securities. He was ranked as one of the top analysts by The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times/Starmine for stock selection, and has appeared and been frequently quoted in the media, including: CNBC, BNN, The Wall
Street Journal, Barron's, Forbes, and Global Water Intelligence. He is also a periodic panelist at
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- Expert in Capital Markets
- Finance & Policy Expert
- Founder FWE
Debra is a leading expert in Capital Markets and Policy. She has more than 20 years' experience in the water industry, and is currently an Executive in Residence with XPV Water Partners, where she has served in various advisory and executive capacities since 2010. Previously she was a Managing Director at Janney Montgomery Scott, and has held numerous senior roles in equity research over the years Debra serves on the Board of Global Water Resources, Willdan, and previously AquaVenture Holdings, until March of 2020, following its sale to Culligan
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- Global Technology Expert
- Professor of Engineering at UCLA
- Water Entrepreneur
Dr. Eric Hoek is a Professor of Engineering at UCLA. He has over 20 years experience in water technology and a successful track record of entrepreneurship having invented NanoH2O and Polycera membrane technologies. He is the Faculty Director for the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge and Founder of Pacifica Water Solutions. He is the founder and a former Director of several water technology companies including IntelliFlux Controls and Water Planet, where he also acted as CEO. Dr. Hoek has authored numerous articles, patents, and publications on water technology, including serving as editor of the Membrane Encyclopedia
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- Global Industry Executive / Former CEO
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- Founding Partner
- Managing Partner & Co - Founder / Former COO, ZENON Environmental / Former Partner VantagePoint Capital Partners
Dr. Rafael Simon is a Founding Partner at Thales Water Advisors. He has co-founded several cleantech and biotech companies and consulted to some of the largest private equity, venture capital, and family office cleantech investors as well as dozens of Fortune 100 industrial companies, large water companies, and water start-ups. Previously, he was a partner at VantagePoint Capital Partners, a leading silicon valley cleantech VC firm where he led the water and agtech investment practice.
Rafael also served as a senior manager at ZENON Environmental from 1998 until its acquisition by GE in 2006 including five years as Chief Operating Officer. During his tenure, ZENON led the industry in organic growth and its $760 million exit is still one of the most successful ever for a water technology company.
Prior to joining ZENON, he worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Co. where he specialized in corporate growth strategies and co-founded the Firm's environmental practice. Over the past decade, he has served on over a dozen boards including as chairman of Alpha Membrane Technologies Ltd., the world's largest supplier of membrane manufacturing technology and as a director of Ovivo, a top 10 North American water treatment equipment company. Dr. Simon received a Ph.D. in Materials Science & Mineral Engineering from UC Berkeley in 1996. In 2004, he was selected as Canada's top COO by Canadian Business Magazine.
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- Founding Partner
- Managing Partner & Co - Founder / Former CEO, Veolia North America / Former COO, Veolia Water Technologies
Dr. Terry Mah is a Founding Partner at Thales Water Advisors. Dr. Terry Mah is an innovative performance-oriented leader and manager with 20+ years of international experience and a proven record of business development, profitable growth, technology development & commercialization, efficiency improvement, integration, change management and transformation that has relied on the ability to develop and lead effective operational strategies and teams across a diverse and challenging background of
Ed is a Sustainability Expert and Founder of The Pinero Group. Ed has been a consultant on sustainability, environment, and energy for more than 35 years. He served as Senior Vice President for Sustainability for Veolia North America. Among his many public sector roles, Ed served as the Chief Sustainability Officer for the US government as an environmental and energy topical advisor to the President of the United States. Ed brings his immense and valuable knowledge around issues and opportunities to leverage sustainability to help ensure meaningful value creation.
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- Water Tech Executive
- Water Tech Executive / Former CEO Pure Technologies
Jack is an Environmental Entrepreneur and senior leader and expert in water technology and advanced infrastructure solutions. Jack is currently a Principal at Scorpion Advisors. Previously, he was President and CEO of Pure Technologies from 2014 until its sale to Xylem, at which time he became a Senior Advisor/Consultant to Xylem's Advanced Infrastructure Analytics group. Jack had served in a senior management capacity at Pure since 1996.
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- Environmental Entrepreneur
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- Senior Consultant & Advisor / President & CEO Sonobe Strategic
Jeremy Lenz has over 25 years of experience in business strategy, executive management, new venture creation and business incubation who has spent the last decade as President and CEO of Sonobe
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- Global Technology Executive
Laurent is an innovative Global Water Leader leader driven by the development of game-changing solutions for a socially and environmentally sustainable growth and is the CEO of Natane. He started his career in Japan in 1991 then then joined Veolia in 1995 in France. In 1999, after an initial positioning in Shanghai, founded and led Veolia's activities in South Korea and Japan. In 2008 he relocated in Chicago to become CEO of Veolia's water activities in the Americas and contributed to the establishment of the Alliance for Water Stewardship. From 2013 to 2019 he led Veolia's global strategy, growth and innovation as Senior Executive Vice President Development Innovation & Markets and member of the Company's Executive Committee. Laurent is based in France.
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- Industry Leader & Entrepreneur
Michael is an Industry Leader and Entrepreneur actively engaged in the industry. He was a co-founder of United States Filter Corporation, contributing to the most notable growth story in water, acquiring over 300 companies, and growing to over $5.5 billion in revenues as a Fortune 300 company. He was also President of Culligan and Everpure, and later founded Triwater Holdings, a company he led as Chairman and CEO to successful value creation across three strategic sectors of the water industry.
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- Strategy & M & a Professional
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- Strategist & Thought Leader
- Strategist & Thought Leader / Founder the Water Foundry
Will is an internationally recognized thought leader on water strategy and innovationn and the Founder of The Water Foundry. He has been a sustainability and water strategy advisor to multinationals, water technology companies and NGOs for his entire career working on corporate water strategies, water technology innovation and water market entry strategies. Will was a Managing Director at Deloitte Consulting and led the company's water strategy practice. He was the founder and CEO of DOMANI, a sustainability strategy firm, prior to Deloitte. Will has written numerous books and articles and continues to present on subjects such as the value of water, innovations in digital water technology, the circular economy, and the energy-water-food nexus.