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Our Professional Staff
Mr. John Etter is our Chief Executive Officer. He a Graduate of the Univ. of Wisconsin School of Business. He is of Swiss descent, and has 20+ years’ experience in the financial services industry. He also owned a distribution company servicing 2,500 locations in Wisconsin and Illinois. Mr. Etter has been a Vice President of a large Eastern financial services company, American General Manager for an international firm, and owner/entrepreneur involved in distribution.
Mr. Etter has served on various Boards including the University Club on the UW Madison Campus, Madison Metropolitan YMCA. the Boy Scout Council serving south central Wisconsin. He is involved in several startup companies including Ur-Water formed out of research at the University of Wisconsin. |
Prof. Marc Anderson is our Chief Technology Officer. He received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater; his M.S. in chemistry and PhD in Environmental Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. He is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. At the UW-Madison Prof. Anderson has also been affiliated with the Materials Science Program and recently retired as chair of the Environmental Chemistry & Technology Program. His research efforts focus on the preparation, characterization and utilization of nanoparticulate oxides. Prof. Anderson is named on over 25 patents and has published more than 225 scientific papers. Along with Prof. Kevin Leonard, he is an inventor of the Ur-Water Technology.
It should be noted that Professor Anderson is also the Head of the Electrochemical Unit of Imdea Energia in Madrid Spain. Here, he is responsible for managing a group of 10 scientists who are working on a variety of energy storage systems as well as Water Treatment using capacitive deionization. |
Prof. Kevin
Leonard is our Chief Scientific Officer. He received his B.S. in Chemical Eng. & Applied Mathematics and a M.S. & Ph.D. in Materials Science all from the Univ. of Wisconsin Madison. Following research with Prof. Allen J. Bard at University of Texas, Kevin became an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the Univ. of Kansas (KU). His research focuses on discovering new materials to catalyze electrochemical reactions for the creation of renewable fuels and chemicals in an environmentally-beneficial manner. He was the 2012 recipient of the Oronzio & Niccolò De Nora Postdoctoral Fellowship in Applied Electrochemistry, the 2014 recipient of the Kansas EPSCoR Education and Diversity Award, and the Raymond Oenbring Teaching Award for Excellence in Chemical Engineering Education. Along with Prof. Anderson, Kevin is a co-inventor of the UR-Water Water Treatment Technology. |
Dr. Dean Tompkins is our Chief Design Officer. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Platteville; his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Madison
He is a member of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), where he chairs the technical committee on Gaseous Air Contaminants & Removal Equipment. Dr. Tompkins is a leader in the field of engineering systems that use advanced catalytic materials. |
Dr. Walter Zeltner is our Chief Financial Officer, He received his B.S. in Chemistry from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; his M.S. in Physical Chemistry from Cornell University; and his Ph.D. in Water Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin – Madison (UW). Dr. Zeltner presently holds an emeritus position as Associate Scientist in the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UW-Madison. Dr. Zeltner has two decades of experience in commercializing advanced catalytic materials comprised of nanoparticulate oxides and is active in the Water Treatment area.
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