Bob Cunningham
Independent Principal Consultant
Bob has over 59 years of water chemistry and treatment experience across a broad range of applications and industries. He holds BS and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Pittsburgh, is a California Registered Professional Corrosion Engineer, is HACCP Certified by USDA, is a Certified Corrosion Specialist by The National Association of Corrosion Engineers and is an ASSE/IAPMO/ANSI 12080 Certified Legionella Water Safety & Management Specialist.
Bob has held a variety of technical, management and marketing positions in the water treatment industry. Bob’s specialties include industrial cooling and boiler water, process water, water preparation and wastewater treatment and recovery. Bob has a special talent for solving difficult problems, and for working together with vendors and facility personnel to optimize water system operations.
Bob was awarded the Cooling Technology Institute – Prestigious Service Award in 2019 and the Distinguished Award 2020. Bob also received the Association of Water Technologies – Ray Baum Memorial Award in 2021.
Walt Tyler
Independent Principal Consultant
Walt brings over 37 years of experience in service and troubleshooting over a wide variety of water treatment issues. In addition to troubleshooting boilers, cooling towers, waste water treatment, Legionella issues, and domestic water, Walt was instrumental in developing new products for water treatment. Combining Walt’s MBA with a major emphasis in Finance with his educational background in Biology and Microbiology brings valuable insights for both ROI and other financial considerations along with practical solutions and tools for solving tough water treatment issues, including for the control and mitigation of microorganisms such as Legionella in HVAC and domestic water systems.
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Ted Beardwood
Independent Principal Consultant
Ted has over 46 years of experience in the industrial water treatment industry that has ranged from sales management, new construction and commissioning of thermal systems, laboratory management, governmental & environmental regulatory compliance, product management, full-service water treatment, marketing, and consulting globally. He is the past chair of NACE STG-11 Water, ASME Research and Technology Committee on Water and Steam in Thermal Systems as well as their Water Technologies Subcommittee. Ted was awarded the International Water Conference Merit Award in 2015 and a Life Achievement Award in 2017 from Solenis LLC.
Ted has developed product and problem-solving methods for the prevention of scale, corrosion, fouling, and microbiological growth applied to steam / condensate, cooling water and process systems, as well as corrosion failure analysis, pretreatment evaluations and consulting to the industry. Ted has produced 280 internal and external papers and holds 14 patents and 10 outstanding records of invention. Presentations have been provided to technical societies such as NACE International (now AMPP), ASME, IWC, EPRI, IDEA, CTI, TAPPI and the International Fouling Conference (now HTRI).