Anaergia Names Watzeck Chief Executive Officer
Send Via E-MailBURLINGTON, ON, CANADA - October 12, 2011 - WastewaterPR.com - Anaergia Inc., a global leader in the generation of clean energy from organic waste streams, announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Steve Watzeck as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). As CEO, Mr. Watzeck, 46, succeeds the company’s founder, Dr. Andrew Benedek, 68, who will remain with the company as Executive Chairman and Chief Technology Officer.
Anaergia Inc., a global leader in the generation of clean energy from organic waste streams, announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Steve Watzeck as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). As CEO, Mr. Watzeck, 46, succeeds the company’s founder, Dr. Andrew Benedek, 68, who will remain with the company as Executive Chairman and Chief Technology Officer.
“Steve brings the right combination of strategic, entrepreneurial and operational leadership to continue the development of Anaergia into a global leader in making energy from organic residues,” said Dr. Andrew Benedek, Executive Chairman and Chief Technology Officer, Anaergia Inc. “During his 17 years at ZENON and then at General Electric he continued to make increasingly greater contributions to the success of these companies in the water field. With Steve at the helm, the company will continue its rapid growth and I can focus my energy on the development of the company’s core technologies.”
“I am extremely excited to lead Anaergia into the next phase of revolutionizing organic residual treatment using anaerobic technology for resource recovery including renewable energy from biogas. Dr. Andrew Benedek as an industry visionary has assembled all the right pieces to build a game changing technology platform. The next phase will be focused on fine tuning and applying the technology to solve the enormous opportunities ahead of us,” added Steve Watzeck.
Steve Watzeck spent the last 5 years with General Electric Water and Process Technologies in the roles of Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer, President, Engineered Systems, General Manager, Global Engineering and Project Execution and General Manager of ZENON after its acquisition by General Electric in 2006. In these roles, Mr. Watzeck was a key member of the executive leadership team in developing the strategy, integrating the platforms and building a world leading multi-billion dollar water business for General Electric from its various acquisitions. Steve Watzeck joined ZENON in 1994, and held several positions of increasing responsibility for international and North American business development and commercial activities, including serving as Senior Vice President, Americas and Vice President, Municipal. At ZENON, Mr. Watzeck was a key driver for commercializing and scaling the proprietary membrane technology at a compounded growth rate of 35%. Steve Watzeck earned a Master of Business Administration from York University and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Western Ontario.
