John founded Next Rung Technology in 2017 when after the acquisition of Oasys Water, he decided to launch an engineering and consulting organization to share his extensive experience in technology development and commercialization with a core focus on commercializing sustainable technologies. John has 25+ years of experience bringing a wide variety of water, energy, fermentation, chemical and biotechnology processes to market through developing pilot plants, managing project plans, and overseeing execution from an engineering and business perspective. As the President of Next Rung Technology, John develops business relationships, collaborates on strategic planning, launches, and manages projects, does techno-economic analyses, and works with Next Rung’s engineering team as they collaborate with our clients to create and commercialize novel processes.
As Oasys Water’s Vice President of Projects, he was responsible for the delivery of Forward Osmosis based projects which treat some of the world’s most abused industrial waters from sources such as power plant flue gas desulfurization, oil and gas production, industrial utilities blowdown and coal to chemicals waste sources. These projects work towards achieving waste minimization, water recovery and reuse, and the adoption of true Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) at industrial facilities worldwide. Prior to Oasys, John led major scale-up and commercialization programs in the renewables sector including bio-industrial chemicals (primarily succinic acid) with Myriant Corporation, cellulosic ethanol with Mascoma Corporation, and cellulose to fuels/chemicals (levulinic acid) with BioMetics and LeCalorie. The professional building blocks for these development efforts came from John’s experience addressing many of our country’s most difficult environmental challenges working with AECOM (ENSR), and conducted energy technology design and development with Raytheon Engineers & Conductors (Badger). John holds a Master’s Degree in Engineering Management from the Tufts Gordon Institute, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from Northeastern University.