Stanford University
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Mr Tamin Pechet
Adjunct Lecturer, Program-Mauter, M.
BioTamin Pechet is an entrepreneur and investor who has founded a series of purpose-driven enterprises in natural resources and technology. Mr. Pechet is the founder and CEO of Upwell Water, a global, tech-enabled water resource and infrastructure company. He also founded and serves on the boards of Above Data, a venture-backed AI company, Kilonova Capital, an investment firm supporting late stage tech companies, and Hawk Hill Group, a renewable energy finance platform, in addition to serving on multiple venture capital-backed company boards. Mr. Pechet also founded and serves as Chairman of Imagine H2O, the largest global innovation accelerator for the water industry. Mr. Pechet previously worked for Goldman Sachs Special Situations Investing Group. Mr. Pechet is a frequent speaker on business and innovation in water, natural resources, and technology, and co-authored the book Water Tech: A Guide to Investment, Innovation, and Business Opportunities in the Water Sector. He holds an AB and an MBA from Harvard University, and serves as an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University.
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Forest Olaf Peterson, Ph.D.
Research Affiliate, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Staff, Civil and Environmental EngineeringBioAs a staff research affiliate, I bring both blue-collar and white-collar perspectives to my role as a scholar of infrastructure.
For seven years, I was a concrete laborer on large infrastructure projects with the Laborers’ International Union of North America. Those years taught me social and environmental dimensions from the ground up.
My fellow laborers wanted to work safely. However, though skilled, we often did not have the information to succeed without unnecessary hardship, for example, on a large highway project we could have worked on another task while a broken piece of equipment was repaired, however, neither the crew nor our supervisors had access to a task schedule to see that (there was a schedule, it was just permission that was missing -- though even with permission the schedule was your typical P6 Gantt which even at best wouldn't have been informative). As a result, our supervisors forced us to continue work loading miles of heavy concrete barriers with a damaged loader. Our choices were to work, quit, or be fired; we were not the operator of the loader, we were the ground crew [2023 Edit: we should have called our Union]. Eventually, a two-ton barrier dropped and hit something that flipped it over where it came to rest just inches above my chest. My fellow workers celebrated my life. One cried in memory of a recent work fatality. We were told to get back to work.
The futility of the situation has left a lasting impression.
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