Primary Job Title Founder - Chief Executive Officer-Chairman Primary Organization Trevi Systems
Gender Male
With his two co-founders, John grew Advanced Fibre to 500 people and a market capitalization of $6 billion in 1999. Advanced Fibre was a telecommunications company enabling high speed services over copper. John left to found Turin Networks, an optical networking company, in 2000. After retiring from Turin and its subsequent sale to Dell for $700mm,
he served as CEO of PAX Streamline (a Khosla Ventures funded bio-mimicry company) for two years. John then founded Innovative Labs, LLC to commercialize early stage technologies in air purification and dehumidification (still active). John founded Trevi Systems in 2010 to commercialize a promising Forward Osmosis water purification technology. Trevi Systems currently employs 25 people and has just commenced revenue shipments of its products. John’s engineering background extends over 40 years in electrical, mechanical and chemical engineering. John received a B.S.E.E. and an M.S.E.E. from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa in 1985 and an honorary Doctorate of Science from Sonoma State University. He served in the South African military and spent 14 months in Antarctica performing upper atmospheric physics experiments.
