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Tamin Pechet, CEO

Tamin Pechet is CEO of Banyan Water.  He is also Chairman of Imagine H2O (www.imagineh2o.org), a global organization spurring entrepreneurship in the water industry through innovation prizes and a water business incubator.  Tamin also serves on the Board of Directors of Lux Research (www.luxresearchinc.com), a leading provider of research and analytics on water and other clean technology markets.  He is a frequent speaker on water business opportunities.

Previously, Tamin was a Principal and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Catamount Ventures (www.catamountventures.com), a $215 million venture capital firm, where he invested in and supported the growth of portfolio companies in water, energy, and the environment.  Before joining Catamount, Tamin was a principal investor at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he co-founded and managed Goldman Sachs E&P Capital to invest in private energy companies, overseeing growth to over $200 million in capital invested.  Tamin also served on the founding team of Goldman Sachs Specialty Lending Group, a $1 billion middle-market lending business.  Prior to Goldman Sachs, Tamin held a business development position with Launch Media through its acquisition by Yahoo!  Tamin holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an A.B. with Honors from Harvard University.

Jeff Fulgham, CSO

Jeff Fulgham is the Chief Sales Officer of Banyan Water.  A 29-year veteran in the water industry, Jeff previously was the Chief Sustainability Officer and Ecomagination Director at GE Power and Water, where he partnered with customers, organizations, and governments to drive awareness of current water challengers and solutions, and the need to implement water reuse technologies.  Before assuming the CSO position, Jeff was the Chief Marketing Officer and Global Marketing Director for GE Water, where he was responsible for all global strategic marketing initiatives on existing and emerging markets and led the commercial and technical training functions for the business.

Jeff speaks extensively at global industry events and has published numerous technical papers on water and power topics.  Jeff was recognized as a member of the Marketing Dream Team and was awarded the Ex Award by Event Marketer Magazine in 2008 for his leadership driving GE’s World Water Tour.  He was also awarded multiple GE “Proof Not Promises” awards for delivering enhanced customer value.

Jeff holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Ohio State University.

Matt Stern, Director of Business Development

Matt Stern is the Director of Business Development for Banyan Water.  Prior to Banyan, Matt worked at the Boston Consulting Group in the energy, water, and wastewater practices where he split his time between the U.S. and the Middle East.  His clients included U.S. utilities, U.S. city governments, and the Government of Qatar.  Prior to BCG Matt worked at the Chicago Climate Exchange, where he helped design an environmental financial instrument, and at the UN World Food Programme, where he supported the head of strategy.  Matt holds an A.B. with Honors from Harvard University.

Jed Smith, Board Director

Jed is a Managing Director of Catamount Ventures.  Catamount is rooted in the in art and the creative process of company building and serves the gap in the market between angel investors and large venture funds.  Prior to Catamount, in 1997 Jed was the founder of drugstore.com (NASDAQ: DSCM), and served on its board of directors with John Doerr, Brook Byers, Peter Neupert, Howard Schultz and Jeff Bezos.  Prior to drugstore.com, Jed co-founded and spent four years at Cybersmith, a retail store chain that showcased the latest advances in information technology and multimedia software. Before that, Jed was Vice President of Sales at Tribe Computer Works (a networking hardware and software company that was successfully sold).  Jed began his career in technology working for Tom Siebel and subsequently Marc Benioff at Oracle Corporation, ultimately serving as District Manager for Eastern Region.

Jed has advised many private companies and currently serves on the Boards of: Linden Lab, Seventh Generation, Siterra, Flock, Ecohaus, Nest Collective, and Revolution Foods.  Jed has also served on the board of several education and non-profit institutions, including the Board of Trustees of Middlebury College, the Monterey Institute for International Studies, Shackelton Schools and the Cambridge Center for Adult Education.  Jed earned an BA from Middlebury College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Jeffrey Schutz, Board Director

Jeffrey is currently a managing director of Centennial Ventures, a Denver-based venture capital firm.  Since joining Centennial in 1987, he has been directly involved with financing more than one hundred investments and helping entrepreneurs build valuable sustainable businesses.  He serves on boards of numerous private and public companies, including Centennial Ventures, CenterStone Technologies, Inc., Siterra Corp., and Accellos, Inc.  He is also a Trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington, D.C., and serves on the board of the Coastal Conservation League.  He received a BA in Economics from Middlebury College and an MBA from the Darden School at the University of Virginia.

Richard Harrington, Board Director

Richard (Dick) Harrington is Chairman and General Partner of Cue Ball Capital.

Dick holds some of the deepest industry experience in online information, media, and business information services.  He is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of The Thomson Reuters Corporation and led several of its businesses there for over 25 years before taking the group's top post.  As CEO of the corporation, he led the transformation of Thomson from a diverse holding company into the leading global provider of online business information, software and services.  Over his 11 years as CEO of Thomson, he quadrupled cash flow, tripled the market value of the company, and created the world's largest information media company.  Additionally, he has led more than $30 billion in deal transactions, with two of the most well-known acquisitions being WestLaw and Reuters.  Dick started his career in a family business and as a CPA with Arthur Young & Co.  He holds a BS and an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Rhode Island.

Michael Patrick George, Board Advisor

In the course of a professional career as a lawyer, investment banker, public company executive and board member, Michael George has developed the experience and skill to resolve difficult problems arising in the nexus among water, energy and finance.  He manages Wedbush Securities’ integrated water industry practice involving water/wastewater infrastructure finance, water and energy conservation, environmental remediation, and related public and corporate enterprises dependent on the reliability, affordability and quality of water resources. 

Mr. George is an honors graduate of the University of Notre Dame (Phi Beta Kappa) and the Georgetown University Law Center (law journal editor).  As a practicing lawyer, he has handled trial and appellate litigation as well as administrative proceedings before federal and state courts and regulatory agencies.  He is admitted to practice in California, Minnesota and the District of Columbia. 

In 1978, he began an investment banking career, culminating in leadership of J.P.Morgan’s international water industry practice from a California base.  In 1998, he was named CEO and a director of Western Water Company (NASDQ:WWTR).  A year and a half into a restructuring, Mr. George was elected to the additional post of Chairman of the Board, and later de-leveraged its balance sheet and transitioned it to a closely-held company.  At the helm of Western Water Company, Mr. George developed a variety of complex water supply projects serving the unique needs of agricultural, urban and environmental organizations.  He also arranged some of the first willing buyer/willing seller water transfers accessing both public and private conveyance and storage facilities.

Later, in his role as Executive Vice President for Corporate Development at American States Water Company (NYSE:AWR), Mr. George facilitated that company’s re-positioning and leadership succession process.  In that role, he initiated significant reengineering, development and redeployment of the company’s water resource portfolio.  As re-constituted, that portfolio consists of both adjudicated and non-adjudicated groundwater, licensed surface water diversion rights, project and wholesale contracts, as well as extensive storage and conveyance facilities and rights.

During his career, Mr. George has served as a director or trustee for a public company, a closely-held company, a mutual water company, a trade association, an independent high school and a community foundation.  He has been a guest lecturer on issues of regional governance, natural resource management and water policy at the University of California, San Diego, the University of Southern California, and the University of California at Berkeley.

Dr. Peter Gleick, Board Advisor

Dr. Peter H. Gleick is co-founder and President of the Pacific Institute in Oakland, California. Dr. Gleick is an internationally recognized water expert. His work addresses the critical connections between water and human health, the human right to water, the hydrologic impacts of climate change, sustainable water use, privatization and globalization, and international conflicts over water resources.

Dr. Gleick received a B.S. from Yale University in Engineering and Applied Science, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the Energy and Resources Group of the University of California, Berkeley. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his work, among them the prestigious MacArthur “genius” Fellowship (2003). He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, was named “a visionary on the environment” by the BBC, and identified as “one of 15 people the next President should listen to” by Wired Magazine. He received the 2009 Region 9 Environmental Excellence Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Csallany Award from the American Water Resources Association for exemplary contributions to water resources. Gleick serves on the boards of numerous organizations and journals and is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers and book chapters and eight books.

André Perold, Board Advisor

André Perold is a Founder, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of HighVista Strategies, a $4 billion Boston-based endowment management firm.  HighVista employs an approach based on broad diversification and risk management across global asset classes and alternative investments.  Perold is also the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking, Retired at the Harvard Business School, where he had a distinguished career over more than three decades before assuming his current role at HighVista in mid-2011. He had previously served as Chairman of HighVista’s Investment Committee while he was still at Harvard. 

Perold is the author and co-author of numerous articles, cases, and two books, all relating to investment management, capital markets, and the financial system.  His most recent research is focused on asset allocation and investments in real assets.  At Harvard Business School, Perold developed popular courses in Investment Management and Capital Markets, and he received numerous awards for teaching excellence.  He was voted the School’s most outstanding professor in a 1994 Business Week student survey.  He also served in a number of senior roles, including Senior Associate Dean and Director of Faculty Recruiting, Chair of the Finance Faculty, Director of Research, and Course Head of First Year Finance.

In addition to his work at Harvard and HighVista, Perold has served as a director, trustee and advisory board member of a variety of not-for-profit and other organizations.  He is presently a director of The Vanguard Group and Rand Merchant Bank, and is an Overseer of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.  He also serves on the advisory boards of FIA Timber Partners, The Rock Creek Group, and RRE Ventures, as well as on the Advisory Council of the Financial Analysts Journal. Perold received his Bachelor's degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and his Masters and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University.