What is the Founding Purpose of Aquanomix?

We started the company hoping to do well by doing good. That is a theme that has been with me from the beginning, and it is important to me for several reasons. One is for my children. When they mature to a point and they realize what dad did and what he was a part of, I would like to be proud of them remembering what my work was and the impact I had on the world around me. So when you use that sort of as a barometer for the decisions you make for your career, how you move through your own evolution, and the company's evolution, it kind of gives you guide rails to do the right thing. 

With that, I came out of the water space. I formerly ran a water company and that company provided materials and services to clients, from critical facilities, healthcare, data centers, universities, and commercial buildings. I watched as the building around me got smarter; there were lighting controls that were put in, elevator controls, and HVAC controls, but the water space, in particular the water treatment piece of it, remained kind of stagnant. This was very frustrating for me, to see that technology was not being pushed into our sector. 

So, I decided to leave that industry for a bit and start Aquanomix. We began Aquanomix as a company that repurposed otherwise considered contaminated water for beneficial reuse in and around the building. As we moved through the course of activity to achieve that, we realized we had to have smart controls and use data to better our outcomes and position that data and outcome to the client for their consumption. 

It is interesting how life has a way of bringing it full circle and I came back into this industrial water space, not as a water treatment professional but instead as a company, or someone in a company who was pushing the idea that intelligence and access to better quicker data could produce better and quicker outcomes.  

This whole idea of wanting to do better for my clients, with smarter controls and better instrumentation just wasn't available when I left the industry 10 years ago (11 now), but I'm so excited now that the tech space and water space are now finally joining together and I'm really excited about the potential that holds for all of us, as companies that support these critical operations and look to make buildings cleaner, more efficient and ultimately safer for their occupants.