Tara Moran
April 20th, 2021Tara Moran is the Chief Executive Officer for the California Water Data Consortium. She advances the Consortium’s goals of accessible and usable data for sustainable water management. Read more
Mike Myatt
April 20th, 2021Mike Myatt serves as program officer on the Water Foundation’s Healthy Watersheds team. In this capacity, he develops and implements grantmaking programs and strategies to accelerate and scale sustainable groundwater management in the western US. Read more
Joone Lopez
April 20th, 2021Joone Lopez is the General Manager of the Moulton Niguel Water District, which provides water, wastewater and recycled water services to approximately 170,000 people within South Orange County. Before joining Moulton Niguel, she served as the General Manager of Calaveras County Water District located in Northern California. Read more
Adrian Covert
April 20th, 2021Adrian Covert is the Vice President of Public Policy for the Bay Area Council, providing research and advocacy leadership for the Council’s committees on Homelessness, Water & Resilience, Commuter Shuttles, and Advanced Communications Infrastructure. Adrian has lead numerous successful Bay Area Council initiatives, including legislation to update California’s water data systems, regulations over San Francisco’s […] Read more
Joya Banerjee
April 20th, 2021Joya joined the S. D. Read more
Meredith Lee
April 20th, 2021Meredith is the Founding Executive Director of the West Big Data Innovation Hub, a venture launched with support from the National Science Foundation to build and strengthen partnerships across industry, academia, nonprofits, and government. Based at the University of California – Berkeley, she focuses on data science initiatives in Smart and Connected Communities, Water, Disaster […] Read more
Deven Upadhyay
April 20th, 2021Deven Upadhyay is the Assistant General Manager and Chief Operating Officer for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. He is responsible for managing the operational business functions of the district, which include system operations, engineering, planning and water resources management. Read more
David Orth
April 20th, 2021David Orth is principal of New Current Water and Land, LLC, which offers strategic planning, program implementation and water resource development services. David has over 35 years of financial and management experience, serving previously as general manager of the Kings River Conservation District from 2002 until August of 2015 and as executive officer of Friant […] Read more
Debbie Franco
April 20th, 2021Debbie Franco is the inaugural Managing Director of the Water Solutions Network (WSN). She joined the network after almost ten years in the California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research, most recently as the Senior Advisor for Water and Rural Affairs. Read more
Eric Averett
April 20th, 2021Eric Averett is the CEO of Homer LLC, a company which has developed an unparalleled network of water sourcing, storage and distribution assets to sustainably supply water to central valley farmers. Eric recently joined Homer after serving 13 years as the General Manager of the Rosedale-Rio Bravo Water Storage District. Eric has been actively involved […] Read more