Leadership Team

Simon Newman

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder

Serial Entrepreneur, MD Private Equity Fund; CEO and turnaround executive, Patent holder, Bain, LEK, Stanford MBA, Cambridge University BA/MA Natural Sciences.

Steve Bitterly

Chief Science Officer and Co-Founder

Engineer, Scientist, Inventor, Serial Entrepreneur. Patent Holder. NASA, Rocketdyne, TRW, Boeing, Honeywell.

Evan Mead

Chief Technology Officer

Engineer, Operator, Executive. PowerAdvocate, Invicro, Soliyarn, Giner Labs, Wharton MBA, MIT, University of Pennsylvania.

Advisors

  • Joe Zuback

    TECHNOLOGY & BUSINESS ADVISOR

    Joe has more than 45 years experience as a water technologist, most recently as the CTO of Siemens Water/Evoqua (now Xylem). Prior, he held similar positions at Veolia North America, and US Filter. He is regarded as one of the top water technologists in the world.

  • Dr. Ellen Stechel

    TECHNICAL ADVISOR

    Co-Director of ASU Lightworks, Arizona State University’s (ASU’s) initiativein energy and sustainable transitions. Executive Director of Center for an Arizona Carbon-Neutral Economy (AzCaNE). Senior Global Futures Scientist at the Julie Ann Wrigley, Global Futures Lab, ASU. Expertise in trans-disciplinary research and systems design for solar, water, renewable fuels, hydrogen, and thermochemical and chemical storage.

  • Dr. Karl Schultz

    TECHNICAL ADVISOR

    VP technology services at Axon. Expertise in development of new products, prototyping and ramp up in manufacturing. Karl has held multiple CTO roles including MD Helicopters and Titan Industries. Honeywell. BSC, MS, PhD. MIT. Naval Aviator..