BiAqua

THE TEAM

Lute Broens, Non Executive Director
Lute is a serial entrepreneurs who has successfully built, established and sold X-Flow to Norit. He has served as Director Business Development and before that as Head of Ultra filtration technology business. He is a board member of European Desalination Society and one of the very well known entrepreneurs in the Netherlands.

Rob van der Meij, CEO
Rob van der Meij, CEO, initially built his credentials by working internationally for blue chip corporations like Akzo Nobel, Shell Chemicals, Gemini Consulting. Thereafter, he co-founded and raised funds from top tier US investor for KiOR, now a NASDAQ listed company. He co-founded Hermes Catalyst, company he has successfully exited, and led restructuring / turnaround efforts for Fluxxion, another venture capital backed company based on filtration technology from Philips. Rob has extensive international business development experience in working with institutional investors and building R&D backed technology start-ups into strong commercial players. He is chemical engineer from the Technical University Delft, the Netherlands.

Henk de Kraa
Henk is an experienced top executive in the water sector in the Netherlands. He has previously served as executive officer of EVIDES and Delta and has provided these companies with a new level of novel technology incorporation and internationalization.

Rop Zoetemeyer
Rop currently serves as Chief Technology Officer of PURAC, a business group within the Euronext listed company CSM N.V. Rop's expertise in bio-based technologies ranging from technology development to production scale-up is of immense value to Biaqua.

Mark van Loosdrecht
Mark van Loosdrecht is a renowned professor at TU Delft. His work in the field of water has been internationally-recognised and acknowledged. Recently he was the recipient of ‘Het Ei van Columbus’, the most prestigious sustainability award in the Netherlands (awarded by the Dutch Ministery of VROM) for his research in the development of an integrated waste-water treatment system.

Mark has extensive expertise in water pollution, waste water and watercycle. His particular focus is on nutrient removal and biofilm/biofouling processes.

He is currently the scientific director of Asellus, a research team of KWR, a leading watercycle research institute, where he has conducted considerable research into wastewater treatment.

Since 2003, he has been chairperson of the department of Environmental Biotechnology at TU Delft. His main work is on the use of microbial cultures within the environmental process of the engineering field. He has a PhD from Wageningen University.

Fred Hagen
Fred Hagen is a professor of Enzymology and is connected to the department of Biotechnology at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft).

Fred has substantial expertise in water and related technologies. He has a chemistry degree from the University of Amsterdam.