WATER STANDARD

The WATER STANDARD leadership team possesses decades of experience in the desalination, water, marine, oil & gas, power and infrastructure sectors and a commitment to providing environmental solutions to worldwide water challenges. This comprehensive, worldwide experience includes a proven track record for delivering large-scale water treatment plants, implementing innovative solutions in demanding environments, and delivering complex floating marine projects offshore.

	Amanda Brock – Chief Executive Officer Ms. Brock joined WATER STANDARD in November 2006 to develop and execute a comprehensive global business plan. Previously, Ms. Brock worked at Azurix in 1998, a start- up global water company and was responsible for the development, growth, and management of the emergent water business in North and South America focusing on the water treatment and services business. Ms. Brock also worked at Enron Corporation and served as President/Joint Venture Management responsible for the construction and management of power plants, related assets, and joint ventures worldwide, including China, the Philippines, Guatemala, Argentina, the Dominican Republic, and the United States. She graduated from law school at Louisiana State University (LSU) where she was a Member of Law Review. Ms. Brock was named ‘Under 40 Alumni of the Year’ for Louisiana State University in 1999/2000. She was recognized as one of top 10 women in energy 1998 and serves on the Board of Directors of the Texas Business Hall of Fame. Ms. Brock was the ‘Innovation Speaker’ at Gastech 2009 in Abu Dhabi. Ms. Brock serves as a member of the Water Environment Federation’s Global Water Strategies Council.
	Lisa Henthorne – Chief Technology Officer Ms. Henthorne served as former President of the International Desalination Association (IDA) from 2007-2009, where she has been a member of the Board of Directors for the past fourteen years and is recognized as a leading expert in water treatment worldwide. She formerly headed the desalination business for CH2M Hill and was a technical advisor on many of the most challenging desalination projects in the Middle East, Australia, North America, and Asia. Ms. Henthorne also holds three U.S. patents in water treatment and is a recognized expert and leader in seawater desalination technology design and assessment, pretreatment evaluation, pilot testing, and design optimization for seawater desalination systems. Ms. Henthorne graduated from the Colorado School of Mines with a Masters of Science in Chemical Engineering and Missouri State University with a Bachelors of Science in Chemistry.  She has more than 25 years of experience in the desalination and water treatment industry.
	Jim Wodehouse – Senior Vice President, Engineering and Project Management Mr. Wodehouse has over 30 years experience in the design, execution and operation of offshore oil and gas projects worldwide. Starting in the early 1980s with the development of topsides and drilling facilities on the large North Sea platforms, continuing in the 1990’s on projects using offshore drilling rigs for fixed and floating production units, and for the past 12 years with SBM Offshore in the design and construction of floating production units for offshore Brazil and Gulf of Mexico. Jim’s broad knowledge of all facets of floating production units is well recognized, having been involved in major oil industry conferences as speaker, advisory board member and technical review committee; guest lecturer at major universities in Asia and North America; and participated on the API sub-committee writing the latest revision of API RP 2 FPS for floating production systems.
	Paul Choules – Senior Vice President, Commercial During his 30 years in the desalination industry, Mr. Choules has worked in the areas of business development, permitting, start-up, commissioning, project management, and operating of reverse osmosis and thermal desalination plants around the world with both Industrial, Oil & Gas, and Municipal clients. Prior to joining WATER STANDARD, Mr Choules served as Vice President with Veolia Water Solutions and Technologies where he led the development and execution of multiple projects in the Industrial and Municipal markets. Prior to Veolia acquiring Weir Techna, Mr. Choules was Techna’s regional Vice President for the Americas where, under his direction, these offices contracted and constructed multiple water treatment projects for offshore Oil and Gas facilities. Mr. Choules’s experience also includes 19 years at MECO where he was responsible for providing support to over 250 desalination installations and where he developed and executed some of the first successful membrane desalination plants in the Middle East region. There he also led international business development, developing industrial, predominately Oil & Gas, projects and was responsible for developing MECO’s marine business which included expanding their capabilities into the offshore Oil & Gas market and the US Navy. He was identified as one of 36 global desalination expert “Desalters” in the history of the industry by Global Water Intelligence in August 2011.
	Andrea Hayden – Vice President, Risk Management With 17 years of experience in the water resource industry, Ms. Hayden specializes in the economic nexus between the financial, technical, and regulatory project components.  She has constructed robust project-level economic models to estimate price regimes and has conducted detailed risk analysis for water asset deals evaluating project specifications, financing structures, market conditions, and environmental regulations. Prior to joining WATER STANDARD, Ms. Hayden was an independent consultant specializing in the valuation and acquisition of water assets. She graduated from Bucknell University and has a Master of Science in Civil/Environmental Engineering and Urban/Environmental Policy from Tufts University. Additionally, Ms. Hayden has a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School at Tufts where she specialized in international finance/banking and environmental/resource policy.
	Raghu Menon – Vice President, Marine Mr. Menon is an accomplished ship management executive and marine engineer with over 35 years experience in the maritime industry, dealing with all aspects of ship management and operations of numerous types of vessels like general cargo ships, oil tankers, chemical tankers, bulk carriers, reefer containers, self unloaders, and other specialized vessels. Mr. Menon has extensive experience in preventative maintenance, compliance with national and international regulations, the application of classification society rules,  and drydockings. Prior to joining WATER STANDARD, Mr. Menon held several senior management roles at V.Ships, the world’s leading provider of ship management services to a fleet of over 1000 vessels. Having served in various offices in the US, Monaco, Southampton, Cyprus, Dubai, Rio and Hamburg, Mr. Menon ultimately  attained the position of Technical Director of V. Ships USA.
	Don Wicks – Senior Project Manager Mr.Wicks has 25 years of experience in the oil and gas industry concentrating on enhanced oil recovery and unconventional reservoirs. Prior to joining WATER STANDARD, Mr. Wicks served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at TIORCO, a Nalco and Stepan Company which designs, develops and provides chemically enhanced oil recovery technologies. He spent much of his early professional career with ICF Resources, Inc. beginning as a reservoir simulation engineer, eventually becoming vice president and an owner of the company. During that time, ICF Resources grew from 23 to more than 5,000 employees with annual revenues in excess of $500 million. As executive vice president for Advanced Resources International, Mr. Wicks was principal investigator of major initiatives to commercialize NASA and Gas Research Institute products for use in the oil and gas industry. Mr. Wicks has authored over 40 professional papers on various oil and gas topics, and has conducted numerous technical workshops on reservoir simulation, EOR, and unconventional gas recovery.
	Ben Movahed – Principal Engineer and President of WATEK Engineering With engineering experience in study, evaluation, design and construction services for water facility projects, Mr. Movahed has hands-on experience with over 40 advanced treatment technology projects, such as reverse osmosis, nanofiltration, EDR, microfiltration, MBR, ultrafiltration and ion exchange treatment. He was the main author of the recently negotiated and published ten state standard policy for membrane filtration and reverse osmosis. Mr. Movahed has been involved in some of the world’s largest membrane plants ranging from small to 100 MGD in capacity.