John Tonner

John Tonner became our Chief Operating Officer in September 2011, was appointed a Vice President of the Company in 2012, became Executive Vice President in 2013 and became our Chief Commercial Officer in 2016. He is the former President and a partner in Water Consultants International, a leading desalination consulting firm. Mr. Tonner began working in the desalination and water treatment industry in 1985 and worked for the Company’s subsidiary Cayman Water from 1986 until 1990 where he was responsible, among other things, for our Company’s first seawater reverse osmosis plant. He has broad practical and engineering experience involving all commercially viable desalination processes. Mr. Tonner is registered to practice as a Chartered Engineer, Chartered Environmentalist and European Ingenieur. He has more than 30 years of experience with reverse osmosis and membrane technology and has patented reverse osmosis energy recovery techniques. Mr. Tonner has provided due diligence oversight services for the some of the largest desalination projects in Asia, Australia and the Middle East. Mr. Tonner holds an honors degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Paisley in Scotland. He has been a member of the International Desalination Association since the late 1980s, serving on the Board of Directors from 1999 until 2004. He served as a Director of the American Membrane Technology Association (AMTA) and South Central Membrane Association (SCMA) from 2015-2017. He was a member of the World Health Organization (WHO)
Desalination Technical Committee, and served on the U.S. National Academy of Science’s Research Committee for Advancing Desalination Technology