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Gonzalo '''"G.G." Pique''' is the President and CEO of [[Energy]] Recovery Inc.(Ticker: ERII). ERI has developed and manufactures the PX, a unique device which recycles 98% of the energy from a desalination plant. The PX becomes the CPU of a modern desalination plant and is the enabling component helping drive a Global boom in desalination as an affordable supply solution to the world water crisis. |
Gonzalo '''"G.G." Pique''' is the President and CEO of [[Energy]] Recovery Inc.(Ticker: ERII). ERI has developed and manufactures the PX, a unique device which recycles 98% of the energy from a desalination plant. The PX becomes the CPU of a modern desalination plant and is the enabling component helping drive a Global boom in desalination as an affordable supply solution to the world water crisis. |
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Later, he was a VP of Sales at [[Fluor Corporation]] [[mining]] and [[metal]] division. |
Later, he was a VP of Sales at [[Fluor Corporation]] [[mining]] and [[metal]] division. |
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He worked for 10 years for the [[reverse osmosis]] membrane companies in San Diego, while helping raise two children. During this time he also became involved as Editor of the Omega-3 Project which published several books on the health effects of dietary oils. Along the way GG became involved in the design, startup and operation of Dozens of seawater desalination plants worldwide. |
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He also worked for Ionics (now [[GE]]) in the design, and start-up of the Santa Barbara, California Emergency desalination Plant in 1992 as well as the retrofit of Ionics Iberica desalination plant in the Canary islands. |
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In the spring of 1993, GG was approached by Dick Heckman, Chairman of US Filter to join the "Heckman Gang" GG became Sr. Vice President and Corporate officer of US Filter Corp., a Fortune 500, NYSE water Company, where he drove a 25% division internal growth rate while simultaneously integrating and succesfully running an avalanche of multi-national acquisitions. |
In the spring of 1993, GG was approached by Dick Heckman, Chairman of US Filter to join the "Heckman Gang" GG became Sr. Vice President and Corporate officer of US Filter Corp., a Fortune 500, NYSE water Company, where he drove a 25% division internal growth rate while simultaneously integrating and succesfully running an avalanche of multi-national acquisitions. |
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== References == |
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http://eastbay.bizjournals.com/eastbay/stories/2008/05/05/story2.html?b=1209960000^16300134 |
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Gonzalo "G.G." Pique is the President and CEO of Energy Recovery Inc.(Ticker: ERII). ERI has developed and manufactures the PX, a unique device which recycles 98% of the energy from a desalination plant. The PX becomes the CPU of a modern desalination plant and is the enabling component helping drive a Global boom in desalination as an affordable supply solution to the world water crisis.
Biography
GG was born in Havana, Cuba on May 16, 1947 and immigrated to the US with his family in 1961. He graduated from the University of Connecticut in 1969 with a degree in Chemical Engineering and started out his career as Middle East regional sales manager at Combustion Engineering ABB while he pursued his masters degree at night at the University of Hartford. By age 29, GG became Country Manager of Dorr Oliver de Mexico. In this first (of his three tours of duty) in Mexico, GG was in charge of the turn-around of the Mexico City subsidiary of what then the largest water treatment company in the world. The Stamford Connecticut parent is long gone. Dorr-Oliver de Mexico continues 32 years later, run by the team GG put in place.
Later, he was a VP of Sales at Fluor Corporation mining and metal division.
He worked for 10 years for the reverse osmosis membrane companies in San Diego, while helping raise two children. During this time he also became involved as Editor of the Omega-3 Project which published several books on the health effects of dietary oils. Along the way GG became involved in the design, startup and operation of Dozens of seawater desalination plants worldwide.
He also worked for Ionics (now GE) in the design, and start-up of the Santa Barbara, California Emergency desalination Plant in 1992 as well as the retrofit of Ionics Iberica desalination plant in the Canary islands.
In the spring of 1993, GG was approached by Dick Heckman, Chairman of US Filter to join the "Heckman Gang" GG became Sr. Vice President and Corporate officer of US Filter Corp., a Fortune 500, NYSE water Company, where he drove a 25% division internal growth rate while simultaneously integrating and succesfully running an avalanche of multi-national acquisitions.
In 1999 Vivendi bought US Filter for $7.5 billion in cash. All of the USF stock options were cashed. GG spent 9 months after the acquisition “tucking his people in.”
Three days later GG joined ERI Energy Recovery, Inc. start-up on February 7, 2000 as a Marketing consultant. Energy Recovery manufactures the PX, a unique, patented ceramic freewheeling pump that recycles 98% of the pressure energy of a desalination plant. This has cut desalination energy costs by more than half and is helping make seawater desalination affordable. See link to The Economist June 2008 article on desalination and energy below.
Mr. Pique was recruited as Executive Vice President in 2001 and became President CEO of ERI in 2002. Since he became involved in 2000, ERI revenues have grown dramatically as climate change increases water scarcity and the disruptive PX technology helps drive a global tsunami of affordable desalination plants being built in India, China, Africa, Israel, Spain and Australia.
GG Pique has quietly become a Global Business Leader in the clean-tech space. As President and CEO of ERI GG has gained a reputation as a strategic visionary with the knack of recruiting, motivating, developing and managing a culturally diverse executive team. The ERI team has established an enviably effective sales/service organization, which has rapidly achieved global dominance in a sharply-focused sector of the clean-tech space.
Mr. Pique has been a top executive for over 30 years who, after rising to Group Vice President of a Fortune 50 Industrial company in Corporate America. In his latest Corporate life (before ERI) GG was part of the US Filter "Dick Heckmann Gang".
In 2007 GG was elected to the Board of Directors of the International Desalination Association.
At the July 2, 2008 IPO, GG was elected a member of the ERI board of directors.
Company
Energy Recovery, Inc (ERI): global clean-tech 'pure play' leader in the water desalination industry. Ticker symbol ERII. http://www.energyrecovery.com/
References
http://www.idadesal.org/t-board_063.aspx
http://www.economist.com/search/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11484059
http://eastbay.bizjournals.com/eastbay/stories/2008/05/05/story2.html?b=1209960000^16300134
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1421517/000095013408010930/f38510a2sv1za.htm