Mr. Pique is President and CEO of ERI, the fastest-growing global company in the water desalination industry. Mr. Pique has been active in the water industry for over 32 years. Before joining ERI, he was a Senior Vice President and Corporate officer of US Filter Corp., a Fortune 500, NYSE company focused on the acquisition, turnaround, integration, and growth management of over 165 water treatment companies and BOOT operations world-wide before it was sold to Vivendi (now Veolia) in 1999.

 

In 1975, Mr. Pique worked for Dorr-Oliver, a US based membrane/water company as their as Marketing Manager and later Mexico Country Manager. Afterwards, he joined Fluid Systems (now Koch Membranes) focusing on the Spain and Latin America desalination market. Being of Spanish descent, he was able to effectively conduct broadly-attended technical reverse osmosis seminars in mainland Spain as well as the Canaries Islands. This experience provided him valuable industry visibility, promoting effective desalination plant technology and servicing customers, globally.

 

Mr. Pique is both technical and executive; with in-depth hands-on experience in leading water companies such as US Filter (now Veolia Water), GE Ionics and Fluid Systems with responsibilities as “Owner’s Representative”, Executive Project Sponsor, Senior Project Manager and Desalination Plant Project Operations Engineer, including BOOT analysis and execution, RO plant design/ revamp, plant startup and, SWRO plant operation and optimization. His hands-on experience in SWRO operations, commissioning, and support provided him detailed knowledge of the early challenges facing membrane treatment solutions, including pre-treatment, membrane oxidation and fouling. In the past, many attempts were made to make desalination affordable to the masses; however, few revolutionary innovative technological advances had been made. Looking to the future, Mr. Pique understood that evangelizing energy savings was the key to converting the minds of non-believers of SWRO desalination. More importantly, he realized that reducing energy consumption would benefit water scarce regions with high energy costs --all the while, contributing to reduce a plant’s carbon footprint.

 

Email: pique@energy-recovery.com