Day 2

8:30 – 9:30, Water Leadership Panel

Mr. Andrew D. Seidel has been a Chief Executive Officer, Founder and/or Director of a variety of public and private companies in the water industry for the past 30 years.    

Most recently, Mr. Seidel was a Founder of and the CEO of UGSI Solutions, Inc. which was sold to Baird Capital in 2022.  Mr. Seidel was a Founder of and the CEO of Underground Solutions, Inc. which was sold to Aegion (NASDAQ: AEGN) in 2016.  Mr. Seidel was also a founding executive of and served as the Chief Executive Officer of United States Filter Corporation (NYSE: USF) from 2000 to 2004 after serving in multiple senior management positions. 

He has served on the Boards of Aqua America (NYSE: WTR), Veolia Environnement (NYSE: VE – Management Board), Nuverra Environment Solutions, and National Waterworks (predecessor of Core & Main), O’Brien & Gere, a private engineering services company located in Syracuse, NY and Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies, Inc. a resource recovery company located in Vancouver, Canada.  He currently serves on the Boards of both UGSI Solutions, Inc. and Seven Seas Water Group, which designs, builds, operates and develops water infrastructure throughout the world.

He holds a B.S.E. degree in Chemical Engineering and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2017, Mr. Seidel was awarded the D. Robert Yarnell Award from the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science.