Member, Board of Directors

Jamie is VP of Product and Marketing at Janrain. He is a seasoned technology executive who is passionate about helping brands build more meaningful relationships with their customers through intelligent data and actionable insights. Jamie built his first social media community in 2004 and has spent the decade since then delivering solutions for high-profile global clients like Coca Cola, McDonald's, Samsung, Wells Fargo, Whole Foods, and more.

Member, Board of Directors

Dan Martin manages a portfolio of cleantech companies in the water, Energy, and ag-tech space. Water investments include AquaCloud, Aquacue (sold to Badger Meter), HydroNovation (sold to Kemflo), Terravion, Valor Water, and WaterSmart.  He is a firm believer that few substances are as necessary to life as clean water, and he remains baffled by the relative lack of institutional investors in this category.

Dan is a Board member of several environmental non-profits including Sempervirens Fund, The Northern Sierra Partnership, The Trust for Public Land, and Youth Outside. From 1999-2006 Dan served as VP of Business Development for HomeGain, an online real estate company sold to Classified Ventures. He has an MBA from Darden and spent the early part of his career putting together joint ventures in China.

Advisory Board Member

Scott is President and CEO of Environmental Financial Group, Inc., a Mill Valley, California based global consultancy.  Scott has 35 years of experience as a financial advisor, engineer, and economist and founded EFG in 1992.  Through EFG, Scott provides consulting services to water utilities, Fortune 500 companies, water technology companies and investors. 

Scott is also Senior Advisor to Gaia Group Oy, a leading Finnish sustainability consulting firm, a member of the Board of Directors at Global Infrastructure Basel, and a member of the Technical Governance Committee of the Gold Standard Foundation in Geneva.  He is an expert in water risk, project finance, sustainable development, and water technology venture finance.

Advisory Board Member

Mark has a 20-year history in the water and wastewater utility market.  He co-founded in college, ADS Services (now part of NYSE: IDX), which grew to a staff of 450 and operated in 14 countries before the company was acquired.  ADS remains a global leader in open channel flow monitoring and big data for wastewater utilities.  Later, he served as CEO, COO or CFO of five startups which collectively raised $125 million in venture funding from investors in 5 continents including IBM, Siemens, Sony, and others.

More recently, he served as CEO of Australian-US water/energy company, Nexus eWater, successfully moving the company focus to California and secured a $70 million customer transaction.   Nexus is the leader in the new $15 billion market for on-site home residential and energy recycling.

Previously, he has served on over 30 private company and non-profit boards.  His functional areas area of specialty include: operations, finance, M&A, sales, international, and venture funding.

Advisory Board Member

Alison is Product Manager at Innovative Systems, Inc. She has over 10 years of experience building and growing startups, especially when it comes to implementing technical infrastructure and hiring pipelines.  She is also an expert in turning geospatial data and big data into products.  She has a Masters in Language Technologies from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Alison has won numerous awards, including the Swartz Entrepreneurial Fellowship and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

Advisory Board Member

Dr. Peter Williams is the Chief Technology Officer, Big Green Innovations, at IBM. His focus areas are resilience to natural disasters and chronic stresses; Smarter Cities, with special reference to water management, and applications of technologies such as cloud computing, blockchains and Internet of Things for government. He has had a major role in developing the intellectual foundation for IBM's "Smarter Planet" and "Smarter Cities" initiatives, and in identifying and integrating their technological components - both IBM-originated and from outside the company.

Dr. Williams holds the title of IBM Distinguished Engineer, and is also a visiting lecturer on Smarter Cities and Communities at Stanford University. By background, he is a strategy and change consultant with well over 20 years' experience of bringing technology and business issues together to develop novel solutions and business models. He holds or co-holds, or has pending, 9 US patents. A native of the UK, he has lived in California since 1999, and is married with three children. His PhD was awarded by the School of Management at the University of Bath, England, in 1986.