Our Management Team
ROB HEILBRONN
Director - Strategic
Projects
Principal - Australia
West & Pacific Region
Rob has in excess of 30 years’ experience in the national and international water industry as Managing Director, Director, Project Director, Technical Director and General Manager. He has been directly engaged in the design and implementation of over 50 significant projects around the world valued at more than 5 billion dollars. He has extensive experience in winning and delivering desalination and wastewater projects, and has completed numerous projects throughout Australia, Middle East, South East Asia and South Africa for both public and private sector organisations.
Rob has led the drive into the Pacific Island market where PWE has delivered a number of ADB-funded projects into Kiribati and Nauru over the past 5 years.
LINO ODDI
CEO & COO
Lino is a senior
executive with over
30 years proven track record in leadership, management, and strategy development of direct and indirect commercial channels in the field of scientific, industrial and process engineering equipment in Water, Power, Food & Beverage, Oil & Gas, Chemical, Petrochem and Pharmaceutical Markets.
He holds an MBA - Master of Business and a Graduate Diploma in Chemical Engineering, both from Swinburne University, Melbourne, which enables him to combine his extensive technical knowledge in water science with his highly developed business acumen.
Lino comes to PWE from the Veolia group where he was CEO, Veolia Water Technologies, Australia and New Zealand.
His mandate is full commercial responsibility to drive sustainable growth of PWE and facilitate long-term customer and supplier partnerships within the water sector.
ROB DRANE
Chief Technical Officer
Principal - Australia East
& Northern Territory
Rob has in excess of 25 years’ experience in the national water industry as Managing Director and Technical Director of a range of water treatment Projects within Australia and Internationally. Rob has been directly engaged in the design and implementation of several industrial water treatment plants with a focus on ongoing operation and maintenance of water treatment processes with particular experience in the power generation industry.
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Rob is a specialist in Brackish Water Reverse Osmosis, Ion Exchange and Electro-deionisation and also has extensive experience in delivering design, installation and commissioning services for all aspects of water infrastructure associated with site chemistry and environmental operation and maintenance.
