Waterline brings together water scientists, AI engineers and enterprise sustainability leaders with careers spanning Nike, Qualcomm, IIT Tirupati and the International Water Management Institute. We built Waterline because we understood the problem before we built the product.
CEO & Co-founder
Founder of SIV Impact Inc and former Nike sustainability leader, with 15+ years driving supply-chain innovation across one of the world's most complex global operations. He currently leads active water-stewardship projects for Amazon and Microsoft.
Ex-Nike (15+ yrs) · Founder, SIV Impact · Portland, OR
COO & Co-founder
A PhD in Hydraulics & Water Resources from IIT Tirupati, with deep scientific grounding in how water moves and where infrastructure fails. He leads Waterline's technical architecture and the AI engine that turns hydrological data into water-risk intelligence.
PhD, IIT Tirupati · Sr. Consultant, IWMI
CTO & Co-founder
Machine-learning and edge-AI specialist with a PhD from IIT Tirupati and prior work as a Senior Engineer at Qualcomm. She builds Waterline's core AI — water-risk scoring, climate-exposure analysis and automated CDP, CSRD and BRSR disclosure.
PhD, IIT Tirupati · Ex-Qualcomm · Deep Learning & Edge AI
Chief Strategy Officer & Partnerships
18+ years across sustainability, global health and consumer brands. At Nike she spent eight years scaling sustainable-innovation programs toward the 2030 carbon goals, after leading global footwear-sourcing strategy across 17 factories and 10 countries.
MPH, Tufts · Ex-Nike (8 yrs) · Portland, OR
Advisors from water-climate finance and global operations, who test whether Waterline's evidence holds up where decisions are made.
Executive Director & Co-founder, AGWA
John has worked at the meeting point of water, climate and finance for more than twenty years. He co-founded the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation in 2010 with the World Bank, and it now serves as the official voice of water within the UNFCCC. He helped write the climate bond criteria that have certified more than $40 billion in water resilience investment across six continents.
PhD, UT Austin · Advised 100+ countries on climate commitments
Founder & CEO, Meadowlark Consultants
Shirley has spent 25 years running global supply chains at scale. She spent 13 years at Nike, finishing as Senior Director of Sustainable Manufacturing and Sourcing, and was Senior Vice President of Global Sourcing and Product Development at PUMA. She later served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Virtual Supply, and now advises founder-led companies on scaling. She keeps Waterline focused on whether a number is something an operations team can actually act on.
Ex-Nike (13 yrs) · Ex-SVP, PUMA · Ex-President & COO, Virtual Supply
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