Philip is a business strategist, entrepreneur and investor with experience in 4 startups. His background includes assisting the development of a wind project in central Montana, starting and running a design business, and working on the cutting edge of the field of biomimicry as one of the original team members at The Biomimicry Institute.

Kim's experience includes work on the regional sustainability business development team for a Fortune 500 global environmental consulting firm. Her technical background in engineering lies in advising oil & gas and industrial companies on environmental permitting, hazardous waste management, and risk analysis.

Dr. Bruce Webster has 34 years of product development and design experience with involvement in 4 startups and 2 liquidity events. He brings a background in both structural and fluid mechanics, computer-aided engineering (CAE), design (CAD) and abstract modeling. Dr. Webster’s experience includes the founding, development, and sale of computer aided engineering companies. He has worked with clients ranging from Ford Motor Company (Visteon), Whir

Kimberly Penney is a 10-year veteran of PAX Scientific (parent company to PAX Pure). During her time with PAX, she has made key contributions to a number of PAX’s new product innovations. For the past few years she has led the fan design and experimental teams at PAX. She oversees the PAX airflow and sound test laboratory and has co-authored several design and utility patents on her fan designs.

Kasra Farsad is a materials engineer with expertise in prototyping and productizing new technologies. Mr. Farsad holds nine patents and seven patent applications. His specialties include product optimization and development, experimental design and prototype scale-up. His past engagements concentrated in gas/liquid interaction, desalination, carbon dioxide absorption, liquid/liquid separation and solid/liquid separation.