- Dr. Pierre Côté
- Andreas Kolch, Ph.D.
- Bruce Rittmann, Ph.D.
- Shane Snyder, Ph.D.
Dr. Pierre Côté, Ph.D.
President
CÔTÉ Membrane Separation Ltd.
Dr. Côté is the principal inventor of the ZeeWeed® immersed membrane commercialized by Zenon Environmental Inc. (now part of GE) and currently the most broadly used filtration membrane in the world for applications including drinking water production, wastewater treatment, water reuse and desalination. In the 1990, Dr Côté worked as Research Programme Director with Veolia where he coordinated the development of the largest nanofiltration plant in the world in Mery-sur-Oise, France. Between 2006-2009 he was Chief Technology Officer for Vaperma, a company engaged in the development of separation solutions for biofuels and industrial gases.
Pierre Côté studied Civil Engineering at l’Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal and he obtained a B.Eng and a M.Sc.A. In 1979, he took a position as Research Engineer with Environment Canada and started a part-time Ph.D. at McMaster University. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1986 for a thesis on hazardous waste stabilization.
Over the 25 years of his R&D career, Dr Côté has authored some 100 technical publications and obtained more than 50 patents. He led a team that won a French Academy of Science prize for a project on nanofiltration in 1995. In 2000, Dr Côté won the $100,000 Manning Principal Award for the ZeeWeed® technology; the award was shared with co-workers and all Zenon employees.
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Andreas Kolch, Ph.D. click name for LinkedIn profile
General manager and co-founder of Hytecon, Germany
Dr. Andreas Kolch served as Chief Technology Officer with ITT Wedeco (formerly Wedeco GmbH, Wedeco AG), a global provider of UV and Ozone water treatments systems. Andreas was involved with the development and commercialization of a wide range of different treatment technologies within Wedeco, acted as representative for the company with the investment community in relation to all technical aspects and questions and supported the acquisition process for acquiring and /or selling technologies.
Andreas provides support for in-house research and development activities, technical due diligence studies for venture capital investment and merger and acquisition projects, strategy and portfolio advice for large companies, process implementation and market analysis studies.
Andreas holds a Ph.D in Microbiology from the Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, University of Bonn, Germany.
In addition to his technical and scientific qualification he is a certified Six Sigma Green Belt (University of Michigan) and employs a wide variety of management processes and tools, e.g. Stage Gate, Voice of the Customer, Financial Planning and Balanced Score Cards (Cooper, NIMBA, Boston Consulting, Ashridge College).
Andreas was the President of the International Ultraviolet Association from 2005-2007 and was a member of various international working groups establishing standards for UV water treatment technologies (DVGW, OENORM, UVDGM, NWRF). Since 2009 he is on the Editorial Board of Ozone Science and Engineering; the Journal of the International Ozone Association.
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Bruce Rittmann, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Environmental Biotechnology
Arizona State University
Dr. Bruce Rittmann, director of the Center for Environmental Biotechnology in the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, is an international leader in the use of microbial communities to provide services to society. Services for Environmental Biotechnology Biofilms Microbial Ecology include pollution clean up, treatment of water and wastewater, capture of renewable energy, and directly improving human health.
Dr. Rittmann was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, a recipient of the Clarke Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Water Science and Technology, a winner of the Huber Research Prize from ASCE, and one of the world's most highly cited researchers, according to ISI.
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Shane Snyder, Ph.D.
Vice President
Total Environmental Solutions
Dr. Shane Snyder is the co-founder and vice president of Total Environmental Solutions Inc. (TES). TES was founded in 1999 as a solutions-based company offering consulting and laboratory services to a diversity of government, municipal, and private sector clients. Dr. Snyder also served as the R&D Project Manager for the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) for nearly a decade. He has published more than 80 manuscripts on the occurrence and fate of organic contaminants in water. In 1998, he was credited with the first discovery of natural and synthetic estrogens in North American waters. Dr. Snyder also linked the occurrence of steroids in wastewater to potential endocrine impacts in fish in the late 1990’s. Dr. Snyder was one of six experts to testify before the U.S. Senate regarding pharmaceuticals in U.S. waters in April of 2008. In 2009, Dr. Snyder’s research team published the first national survey of pharmaceuticals in U.S. drinking water.
