New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)

• Emerging Contaminants Research LAB (ECRL), Director: Arjun Venkatesan, Ph.D., Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, NJIT; arjun.venkatesan@njit.edu 

• PFASolve Inc., Start-Up Company, Charmi Chande, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer; Scientific Co-Founders: Director: Arjun Venkatesan, Ph.D., Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, NJIT, Jay Meegoda, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, NJIT, Eon Soo Lee, Ph.D.; Business Co-Founder: Michael Ehrlich, Ph.D., Professor, Finance, NJIT; Business Advisors: Stewart Abrams and Govi Rao 

• Mass Spectrometry Center, Director: Hao Chen, Ph.D., Professor, Chemistry and Environmental Science, NJIT;  hao.chen.2@njit.edu

• PureTrace Labs, Start-Up Company, Cassie Hallberg, Chief Executive Officer; Chief Scientific Officer: Hao Chen, Ph.D., Professor, Chemistry and Environmental Science, NJIT

• Wen's Research Group, Director: Wen Zhang, Ph.D., Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, NJIT

Princeton University

• Environmental Biogeochemistry Research Group, Director: Peter Jaffe, Ph.D., William L. Knapp '47 Professor of Civil Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton; jaffe@Princeton.EDU

• PolyGone Systems, Inc., Co-Founders: Nathaniel Banks and Yidian Liu

Rutgers University

• Center for Environmental Exposure and Disease (CEED), Director, Community Outreach and Engagement: Robert Laumbach, MD, MPH, CIH; Rutgers University

• Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Executive Director: Brian Buckley , Ph.D., Rutgers University

Stevens Institute of Technology

• Stevens Center for Sustainability, Director: Dibs Sarkar, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology

Industry and Government and Business Organizations

• Veolia - North America, Environmental Services, NJ PFAS-PIC Board of Directors Representative: Siavash Isazadeh, Ph.D., Sr. Director Technical, Strategy & Innovation, Growth, Performance, and Technical Team – North America 

• Langan Engineering & Environmental Services, NJ PFAS-PIC Board of Directors Representative: Stewart Abrams, Director of Remediation Technology

• T & M Associates, NJ PFAS-PIC Board of Directors Representative: Gary Dahms, Chief Executive Officer and President

• Jersey Water Works, NJ PFAS-PIC Board of Directors Representative: Paula Figueroa-Vega, Director, Jersey Water Works Collaborative

• Ridgewood Water, NJ PFAS-PIC Board of Directors Representative: Richard Calbi Jr., Director of Operations – Ridgewood Water & Village Sanitation & Recycling, Village of Ridgewood

• New Jersey Commission of Science and Technology (NJ CSIT), NJ PFAS-PIC Board of Directors Representative: Judith Sheft, Executive Director 

• PFASolve Inc., NJ PFAS-PIC Board of Directors Representative: Charmi Chande, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer

• BioLargo, Inc. (OTCQB:BLGO) invents, develops, and commercializes innovative platform technologies to solve challenging environmental problems like PFAS contamination, advanced water and wastewater treatment, industrial odor and VOC control, air quality control, and infection control.

• Usalco is a leading U.S. provider of water treatment coagulant solutions, technology, and services for the municipal and industrial water sector enabled by five-hundred and fifty dedicated employees, an extensive manufacturing and logistics base comprising 37 locations, a supporting truck and railcar fleet, and industry-leading R&D.

• ResinTech combines industry-leading ion exchange technology with a world-class water testing laboratory to address PFAS at any scale — including some of the largest remediation projects on the planet. Working alongside utilities, water treatment solution providers, and environmental A&E firms, we deliver proven solutions for a PFAS-free future.

• Ecofilter Tek is a Canadian clean water technology company developing advanced solutions for PFAS removal and separation. Its proprietary charge-switching polymer materials, including regenerable ion exchange resins, enable efficient PFAS capture, low-waste regeneration using only NaOH, and scalable treatment.