Peter FiskeExecutive director Peter S. Fiske is the founder and Executive Director of NAWI and the Director of the Water-Energy Resilience Research Institute (WERRI) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Prior to joining Berkeley Lab, Fiske was the Chief Executive Officer of PAX Water Technologies, Inc. from 2008 until January 2017 when it was acquired by UGSI Inc. PAX Water pioneered the use of biomimicry to develop innovative and energy-efficient technologies for the water industry. PAX Water won a number of national water industry awards, and its iconic Lily impeller technology was featured in a major design exhibit at the New York Museum of Modern Art. Meagan MauterResearch director Meagan Mauter is an Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. She directs the Water and Energy Efficiency for the Environment Lab (WE3Lab) with the mission of providing sustainable water supply in a carbon-constrained world through innovation in water treatment technology, optimization of water management practices, and redesign of water policies. Her present research seeks novel approaches to sustainably meet water supply in an energy constrained world by rethinking the policies surrounding water treatment, redefining the inputs to the treatment process, and re-envisioning the membranes in membrane-based water treatment processes. Matt RingerPartnerships director Matt Ringer is NREL’s Laboratory Program Manager for Advanced Manufacturing, overseeing the portfolio of science and engineering research completed on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO). He ensures NREL researchers and engineers working on AMO projects provide high-quality, groundbreaking results to our clients. Ringer also serves as the business development manager for NREL’s Mechanical and Thermal Engineering Sciences Directorate and engages with industry partners and academia to leverage the directorate’s capabilities in advancing new energy technologies. Carol ValladaoOperations Director; Finance & Compliance Director Carol Valladao has served Berkeley Lab in multiple key operational management roles over more than 18 years. Valladao has managed multimillion-dollar projects from a variety of funding sources including DOE Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy, Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, and Office of Science, and the California Energy Commission. Valladao has managed diverse teams of researchers from multiple university, national lab, and industry partners on projects from proposal development through project completion. TweetShare