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Scottsdale, AZ-based Abtech Industries has Appointed Upen Bharwada as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
AbTech Industries is a full-service environmental technologies and engineering firm dedicated to providing innovative solutions to communities, industry and governments addressing issues of water pollution and contamination. AbTech offers innovative solutions for Stormwater Management, Oil and Gas Water Treatment and Industrial Water Treatment. AbTech integrates its own native advanced technologies along with third-party technologies and systems to provide its customers with the most effective and economical solutions.
About the Person
Upen Bharwada is recognized for early development through accelerated commercialization and growth of four liquid separation technologies.Mr. Bharwada was with the DOW Chemical Company for 18 years in positions of successively complex technical and business responsibilities, including Vice President of Research and Development and as a member of the FilmTec Corporation board of directors. He served as Vice President of Manufacturing and Research Development, as well as Vice President of the Asia Pacific and ANZ Business Unit for ZENON Environmental Inc., now a part of GE Water. Mr. Bharwada also served as President and Chief Operating Officer at Hydranautics (a Nitto Group company) and was a Business Operations Executive for the Filters and Membranes P&L of GE Water and Process Technologies. He joined Hydration Technology Innovations as an Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer in 2011 to assist in the development and commercialization of Forward Osmosis technology. Mr. Bharwada has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Institute of Technology at Banaras Hindu University (affiliated with Indian Institute of Technology), a M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago), and an MBA in Marketing and Finance from University of Cincinnati.
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