Bak Srikanth, Regional Director of Client Solutions

Bak Srikanth is the Regional Director of Customer Solutions and manages sales activities for Applied Technology focusing on the Southern California and Arizona areas.  He has nearly 20 years experience in the water treatment and purification industry.  Bak earned both a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering as well as a Master’s degree in Mathematics.  His industry related experience includes working with companies such as Millipore Corporation, Aquafine Corporation, Light Stream Technologies, featuring diverse technologies such as membrane separation (RO/UF/MF), UV treatment, deionization, vacuum distillation, and pre-treatment technologies.  During his career, Bak has worked on projects for water, wastewater, and ultrapure water treatment in the environmental remediation, semiconductor, pharmaceutical, and food and beverage industries, as well as for municipal utilities. 

While working with MIT during his career with Aquafine, Bak developed and commercialized UV technology for Chlorine/Chloramine destruction, spearheading the awareness and acceptance of this technology within the pharmaceutical, food, beverage, biotech, and medical industries.  He also managed a major water treatment project involving the USS George H. W. Bush aircraft carrier for the U.S. Navy in conjunction with Northrop Grumman and managed the installation of a UV treatment system at the Pentagon in Washington, DC.

Bak is the author/co-author of over 25 publications and paper presentations, including peer-reviewed papers, appearing in leading industry journals worldwide.  He also delivered numerous seminars and papers on water treatment to various parts of North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

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