Eytan Levy, Co-founder and CEO

Eytan began his career as a sales manager at Ormat, Israel’s most successful alternative energy company. He continued his work in the power generation sector as Vice President of Infrastructure at Delta, a supplier of capital equipment for the power generation and environmental industries. While at Delta, Eytan worked closely with the Israel Electric Corporation on acquisition and integration of new power generation systems. In 2000 he joined his college classmate Ronen Schechter to found AqWise, leading that company from inception stage to its position as a recognized leader in advanced biological wastewater treatment. While CEO of AqWise, Eytan led the company’s successful entry into the waste water treatment market, building strategic relationships with integrators and key market participants. Eytan is an active Venture Partner at Israel Cleantech Ventures, Israel’s first cleantech focused venture capital fund. Eytan holds a BSc (cum laude) in Chemical Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and an MBA in International Marketing from Bar-Ilan University.


Ronen Shechter, Co-founder and CTO

Ronen is accredited as one of Israel's leading technological executives in the water industry. His engineering and scientific capabilities enable him to deeply understand theoretical and practical aspects of applied technological R&D. Ronen has devoted his career mainly to research and development in water and wastewater treatment over the last 17 years. Ronen is the primary inventor in several patents in this field and has presented technical papers in numerous international conferences. He is the co-founder of AqWise, where he was CTO for seven years. At AqWise Ronen led all R&D activity and engineering development including development of the design tool and modeling. As CTO, he was deeply involved in process implementation and all technical aspects of marketing. Prior to AqWise, Ronen was the head of the Desalination Department in Tami, the central R&D Institute of Israel Chemicals, where he provided R&D support to IDE Technologies Ltd., a global leader in the desalination market. Ronen holds a BSc (cum laude) in Chemical Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.


The Emefcy team is rounded out by additional researchers with expertise in the area of environmental engineering and life sciences as well as fuel cells and electro-chemistry.