Seven Seas Water CEO and leadership

Ark Pang has over 45 years water and wastewater technology and marketing experience and is one of the industry’s early leaders in promoting Public-Private Partnership for major desalination and wastewater reuse projects. He began his professional career with the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. and the Permutit Water Co. He had a successful 24-year career with Ionics, Inc. as their global Vice President Marketing & Sales and was Global Water Scarcity Business Development Leader for GE Water & Technologies (after GE acquired Ionics). Mr. Pang advised Kharafi National Co. in Kuwait for seven years in their development of water and power infrastructure investment projects in the Middle East prior to joining Seven Seas Water. He holds a B.S. Chemical Engineering degree from CCNY School of Engineering.

Lee is an accomplished business leader with over 35 years in executive management and investment banking experience. Lee has extensive experience as the chief financial officer of both public and private companies where he has been successful in growing organizations, raising capital, managing risk, and being a trusted business partner to senior management.

Between December 2013 and April 2020, Lee served as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of AquaVenture Holdings Limited (NYSE: WAAS), which was one of the fastest growing, publicly listed companies in the water treatment solutions business before being acquired by Culligan in March 2020. Lee was also the Chief Financial Officer of AquaVenture’s desalination and wastewater treatment subsidiary, Seven Seas Water Corporation. As Chief Financial Officer of AquaVenture, Lee led and managed the complete finance and accounting function, including financial and management reporting; financial planning and analysis; treasury, capital raising, risk management and balance sheet optimization; tax strategy and compliance; accounting/internal control; and investor relations. Lee was a member of the company’s Executive Committee and its Investment Committee and served as its Chief Compliance Officer. As a critical partner within the Executive Team, Lee collaborated extensively on business development with a particular focus on opportunity creation. As an executive of AquaVenture/Seven Seas Water, Lee represented AquaVenture as a director on the boards of its subsidiaries.

Prior to AquaVenture, Lee served as Chief Financial Officer of ContourGlobal, an international developer, owner and operator of electric power businesses. Lee was a senior leader of the company since its inception in 2005 and was responsible for many executive functions in finance and business development during his seven-year tenure. Lee was also a member of the company’s Executive Committee.

Prior to ContourGlobal, Lee was a senior banker in the Energy & Power Group at Goldman Sachs, with specific responsibility for executing complex infrastructure financings. Lee has also served on the advisory board of Venture Global LNG.

Lee graduated summa cum laude as an accounting major from Boston University’s School of Management and has a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Chicago. Lee is a Certified Public Accountant (currently inactive). Lee completed the Leadership at the Peak training at the Center for Creative Leadership.

Mario has over 20 years of experience installing, operating and managing water treatment and power plants in the Caribbean. As the former Caribbean General Manager for Ionics, he managed over 50 plants. He has comprehensive, hands-on experience on a variety of water and wastewater plant facilities in the Caribbean, Bahamas and Bermuda. Mario holds a degree in diesel technology from Wyoming Technical Institute.