Water and Wastewater Treatment Solutions
World Class Management Team (cont)
Newly appointed management team with significant experience in water treatment leading to multiple successful exits
BEN FASH
Chief Financial
Officer
RICK CISTERNA
Chief Commercial
Officer
⚫Joined in January 2023
• Prior to joining Fluence, CFO at Dumas Mining (2021-22)
Underground mining services provider with operations in Canada, US, &
Mexico
• Newterra - Leading provider of modular water and wastewater treatment
solutions
EVP Corporate Development (2012-2015)
CFO (2015-21)
✓ Significant turnaround - EBITDA growth from $0 to $14.5M
✓ Successfully exited in October 2020
• Prior to joining Newterra, spent 8 years in progressive roles in investment
banking and private equity with:
Birch Hill Equity Partners - Canada's leading mid-market PE firm
RBC Capital Markets and Credit Suisse
• BA in Economics & Legal Studies from Williams College
⚫ Joined Fluence in Dec 2021
• 30 years of water industry management experience, $1B in contracts; $100M in
recurring revenue
•
President of several renewable energy and water infrastructure development
companies focused on build, own, operate, finance model
• Natural Systems Utilities- design, build, operate, finance platform for
decentralized infrastructure
Executive VP Business Development
• Hazen and Sawyer - International water and wastewater engineering and
consulting company
Partner and corporate water reuse practice leader
• Stanford University - MS Environmental Engineering
Full scholarship and honors fellowship
•
University of Nevada, Reno - BS Civil Engineering
■ Top graduating senior, College of Engineering
fluence
10
07View entire presentation