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Meeting Location:
Emerging Enterprise Center at
Foley Hoag the Bay Colony Corporate Center
1000 Winter Street, Suite 4000 (North Entrance)
Waltham, MAMeeting Time: 6:30 - 9:30 pm
Meeting Cost:
$25 public, $10 students
and active military; Promotional Registrations
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
6:30 - 9:30 PM
Location: Emerging Center at Foley Hoag the Bay Colony Corporate Center, Waltham, MAWaterTech: Opportunities Emerging in "The Next Oil"
Meeting Overview
Despite the critical role of water in our lives, there has only recently begun a deepening mass awareness of its potential near term shortage due to waste and pollution. As such there are significant parallels to recent developments in clean-energy technologies related to use of oil, gas, and coal. In line with clean-technology trends, technologies oriented to water have been receiving significant recent interest from academics, entrepreneurs and investors alike. Some of these technologies are truly new, while others are simply updates to existing systems/processes.
The May 18th EntreTech Forum panel will discuss the opportunities and challenges facing entrepreneurs engaged in the water industry, and will incorporate the latest thinking in research, development and implementation of water technologies with leading participants in the industry. The panel will frame for the audience the general WaterTech landscape, define entrepreneurial opportunities within it, and highlight and explore cases and causes of success and failure.
Panelists:
James Dean – CEO – ZanAqua Technologies
Heather Landis – P.E., Analyst
Ed Lovelace – EVP of Engineering – Free Flow Power
Robin Lockwood - Senior Associate – Flybridge Capital PartnersMeeting Organizer:
Andrew Fairbairn – Fairbairn Ventures
Panel Bios:
James C. Dean – President – ZanAqua Technologies
James oversees all aspects of the Company. James brings a solid mix of development, reduction to practice, and business management skills to ZanAqua.
Prior to joining the Company in 2008, he was president of PERCEPTIVE Technologies, a product development and consulting engineering firm. Prior to that, he was the president of Synergy Research Corporation, a product development and consulting engineering company. James also held various management and engineering positions at Boeing Military Airplane Company and Boeing Defense & Space Company, divisions of The Boeing Company. At Boeing Defense & Space, he served as deputy manager of Boeing’s Space Station Freedom Program and oversaw all verification test activity. He has extensive experience with Federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) programs and has developed innovative propulsion and surface preparation (water droplet impact) technology with SBIR funding. In addition, he has developed fluid dispensing systems for aqueous bioassay fluids and high viscosity fluids.
James holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from University of Minnesota and an MBA from Plymouth State University.
Heather Landis is an analyst at Lux Research heading up the water intelligence service in Boston. Heather has over nine years of experience in the water industry. Prior to joining Lux Research, Heather worked for Black & Veatch as a process engineer in its Water Technology Group. While at Black & Veatch, she specialized in the development and application of advanced water treatment process technologies. Areas of focus included evaluation, pilot testing, design and operation of ultraviolet (UV) technologies, as well as ozone and membrane technologies in the Americas, Europe and Australia. She also conducted research for the American Water Works Research Foundation evaluating disinfection strategies at thirty water treatment plants and the implementation of UV disinfection at these facilities. Heather also spent two years as an engineer at Malcolm Pirnie, where she provided assistance in the drafting stages of the USEPA’s UV Disinfection Guidance Manual. Heather is the author and presenter of more than 30 technical papers on advanced water treatment technologies.
Heather holds a M.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Purdue University. Her thesis research determined the effects of UV and gamma radiation on Cryptosporidium parvum using a novel tissue culture assay. She also holds a B.S. degree in Public Health & Environmental Science from Indiana University. Heather is a licensed Professional Engineer (civil engineering) and a board member of the International Ultraviolet Association (IUVA).
Ed Lovelace – Executive VP of Engineering – Free Flow Power
Ed has 21 years experience as a mechanical and electrical engineer. As the EVP of Engineering for Gloucester-based Free Flow Power, Ed leads engineering research and development, including electric machinery, turbine, power electronics, controls, and grid interconnection. He is responsible for the company's SmarTurbine hydrokinetic generator. Ed also supports the licensing process and engineering analysis/development for the hydropower site project subsidiary, Free Flow Power Development. Free Flow Power is an angel backed company focused on delivering hydro-kinetic turbine systems drawing power from the Mississippi River system.
Formerly, Ed was Director of Engineering Development at Satcon Technology Corp a major power conversion company. Before that, he spent six years as senior control system engineer in the Aircraft Engines Business Group of General Electric.
Ed has a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Robin Lockwood - Senior Associate – Flybridge Capital Partners
Robin is a Senior Associate at Flybridge Capital Partners whose investment interests and expertise span water- and energy-related technologies and healthcare. Robin has been tasked to develop Flybridge’s water-tech strategy, and is currently actively evaluating water-tech companies, particularly on the demand side.
Robin joined Flybridge in 2009 after two years as a business strategy consultant for The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). While at BCG, Robin focused primarily in the healthcare industry, serving top tier, global pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers as well as health care insurance payers. She engaged in a wide variety of project work including, strategic planning and corporate development, marketing and sales, and operational transformation. Prior to BCG, Robin led a multi-disciplinary dissertation project, in coordination with NASA, to develop novel approaches for monitoring, predicting, and controlling global climate change. Her work included design and construction of innovative flight instruments, and also the field-testing of these instruments internationally.
Robin has a Ph.D. from Harvard in Engineering and Applied Sciences and a B.A. from Harvard in Chemistry, with highest honors.
Meeting Organizer:
Andrew Fairbairn – Managing Principal: Fairbairn Ventures
Andrew is an investor, entrepreneur and advisor who partners with driven entrepreneurs to rapidly prove out value propositions and to build solid businesses.
Prior to establishing Fairbairn Ventures, Andrew was a founding partner of JVKellyGroup, Inc. (JVKG), a New York-based management consulting, performance management and software development firm recently sold to D&B. He has also served as Vice President of Deutsche Bank, focused on corporate venturing in financial technology companies and strategic planning roles in New York and London. Andrew began his career with UBS Securities in New York, where he worked on global networking and telecommunications industry financings, across a range of geographies and investment banking product disciplines.
Andrew earned his B.A. in Economics and M.A. in International Development Policy from Stanford University.
Heather Landis, P.E., Analyst