Ballerup, Denmark - April 16, 2015, Ballerup, Denmark - LiqTech International, Inc., a clean technology company, appoints Rengarajan Ramesh to its board of directors.
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Dr. Ramesh has consulted for Wasserstein & Co. on water investments since early 2009 and formally joined Wasserstein & Co. in 2010 as a partner. He has over 30 years of global operating, acquisition strategy, business development, and technology experience. Dr. Ramesh currently serves on the board of RWL Water.
He also serves on the Innovation Business Development Advisory Board for United Technologies Corporation. He is a member of the investment committee for Sustainable Water for Food, at US AID (A joint program between US Government, Government of Sweden, and Government of Netherlands).
He is currently assisting several universities in evaluating their technologies and intellectual property portfolios. Most recently he served on the board of High Pressure Equipment Company a portfolio company of Wasserstein & Co.
Dr. Ramesh served as a member of the International Advisory Board to The Ministry of Environment and Water for the Government of Singapore from 2006 to 2009.
He also served on the Executive Board of the National Center for Food Protection and Defense (US Government Homeland Security center at the University of Minnesota) from 2006-2009. From 2003 to 2009, he held several senior management roles at GE Water & Process Technologies, including four years as Chief Technology Officer.
During his tenure as CTO, Dr. Ramesh played a key role in the development and implementation of the strategy that led to the creation of GE’s global water platform, managing engineering and technology organizations of over 700 engineers and scientists while leading the technical and operational due diligence and integration efforts of GE Water’s major acquisitions.
During his term at GE, Dr. Ramesh also oversaw the technology and engineering teams for the GE Sensing business, GE Security business, GE Fanuc Automation and Control business divisions.
Prior to serving at GE, Dr. Ramesh served in numerous management roles, including Chief Technology Officer, General Manager of Asia and General Manager of Mexico and South America, over a two-decade career with A. Schulman Inc., a global, specialty chemicals manufacturer. ■