Arian Edalat, Co-Founder & CEO at Active Membranes

Arian Edalat is a chemical engineer and an award winning water tech entrepreneur. He has a Ph.D. from University of Bradford in UK and two decades of experience in design, engineering, construction, operations, maintenance, troubleshooting and optimization of industrial and municipal membrane-based water treatment processes as well as technology development and commercialization. 

His unique and diversified experience expands from developing a concept from bench scale through field pilot and large-scale commercialization and deployment. 

He has delivered over 60 cutting-edge and challenging water treatment solutions across the globe. 

Arian is also a graduate of UCLA’s Anderson School of Management’s Executive Management Program. 

His personal interests include landscape and street photography, hiking, and translation of cross-cultural literary work. 

Arian speaks, read, and writes in English, Persian, and Arabic.