Multiple experts from across the glode,
1 ultimate glode.

Our international team of experts have dedicated themselves to one goal,
clean water for all.

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Our Mission

Our
Mission

We want to restore hope to over 1 billion people across the globe who are fighting a daily battle against sickness from contaminated water.

Through smart, sustainable, and highly efficient filtration technology, Aqua Tech aims to restore the fundamental human right to clean drinking water for everyone, everywhere, every time.

Our
Approach

We partnered with leading companies and experts in membrane sciences, who all share the same vision of a better future for all.

With unwavering commitment and extreme passion, this global collaboration brought rise to the development of disruptive ERM technology.

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Our Approach
Our Team

Our
Team

From its humble beginnings in a university dormitory in Pakistan, Aqua Tech has evolved into an award-winning technology start-up, with its headquarters now based in Singapore.

Management team

Farrukh Mian

Farrukh Mian

Director

M. Tofiq Qureshi

M. Tofiq Qureshi

Director

Technology team

Dr. Neal Tai-Shung Chung

Dr. Neal Tai-Shung Chung

Consultant

Bio

Dr. Chung is a world-renowned membrane scientist and innovator based in Singapore. After completing his Ph.D. in membrane science and technology from the State University of New York in 1981, Professor Chung focused on developing novel materials and membranes for water filtration and reverse osmosis. While teaching at the National University of Singapore, he led the R&D for Hyflux, a membrane technology startup at the time, and co-invented hollow fiber membrane-based ultrafiltration membranes which are now an industry standard. He went on to found and develop several startups in the same space including SEPPURE and Phaos Technology and is recognized as one of the most decorated pioneers of membrane technology in the world today with several awards including President Technology Award, Engineering Research Leadership Award, IChemE in Singapore Awards for Excellence and Innovation in Sustainable Technology and many others to his name.

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Dr. Zou Jian

Dr. Zou Jian

Consultant

Bio

Dr. Zou did his engineering and later Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore. Dr. Zou has scopious experience in membrane science and technology – as his research spans dominantly on hollow fiber spinning, membrane fabrication, membrane distillation, pervaporation, ultrafiltration & nanofiltration. He carries robust proficiency and experience in organic separation, solvent recovery, wastewater treatment, desalination, and various separation processes and transport mechanisms which conclude him as a dexterous dual-layer membrane scientist.

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Dr. Harris Samiullah

Dr. Harris Samiullah

Chief Polymer Engineer (CPE)

Bio

Dr. Haris Samiullah has a doctorate in Polymer Science from Martin Luther University Halle, Germany. He has been a part of various research projects funded by German industries and by DFG (German Science Foundation). He established his work not only by publishing it in reputable international journals but also furnished them at different conferences. He specializes in the synthesis and modification of polymers and their characterization which grants him to render the techniques that are practiced during the R&D of membrane technology. He also holds an engineering degree and a relevant industrial experience in a reputable polymer processing units in Karachi, Pakistan. This impelling drive shaped him, as he endeavors with the world’s eminent scientists in South Korea, Germany, Singapore, Nederland & Austria. At Every Water, Dr. Haris rejoice a great deal to bring the sustainability of technologies and device them at commercial levels. Being the senior and more experienced team member Dr. Haris also convene the technology department.

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Hafiz Usama Tanveer

Hafiz Usama Tanveer

Chief Innovation Officer (CIO)

Bio

Usama is a Chemical engineer, water and social entrepreneur, an advocate of climate, and a devoted volunteer for humanitarian causes. A passionate individual about the water scarcity and sustainability problems in developing countries and has worked on multiple research projects to explore the applications of water purification technologies for the developing world and has founded his water-technology start-up. Being the Chief Innovation Officer he had led the research team Every Water in Singapore and South Korea. Usama has represented Pakistan through highly competitive international fellowships including Cordes Fellowship, Queen’s Commonwealth Trust Scholarship, Fred. J. Hansen Fellowship, Global Young Water Fellowship, and Global UGRAD Fellowship. Recently he has been awarded the Commonwealth Youth Award 2023 as a regional winner from the Asian continent and made it to the Forbes 30 under 30, class of 2023 under the social entrepreneur category.

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Abdaal Khalid

Abdaal Khalid

Chief Design Officer (CDO)

Bio

Abdaal is an electrical engineer turned nuclear engineer with a mind that thrives at the nanoscale. He has a keen eye for the new product development—from ideation to commercialization—and that has been the defining feature of his endeavors in China to help bring startups to market. After a series of stints at microelectronics startups designing new products, Abdaal was struck by the membrane-based technology used in purifying water to treat the highly sensitive silicon wafers for optimum performance. This curiosity soon turned into passion once Abdaal realized the potential implications of this groundbreaking water purification technology for the millions of people suffering from the acute water crisis in his home country, Pakistan.

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FORBES, March 2023

“Aims to clean drinking water of water-borne bacteria, viruses and contaminants in developing countries.”

The team developed a low-cost, membrane-based solution that requires no electricity or chemical cleaning.

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Shayan Sohail, Founder & CTO

“There is nothing scarier than having no one to trust. Every time I ate something, every time I drank water, I prayed not to get sick again.

I can never forget that fear”

Shayan Sohail, Founder & CTO Our goal is to improve living quality by providing access to clean and safe drinking water for everyone, everywhere.

Aqua Tech investors

Hashoo Group
NBP
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Hashoo Group
NBP
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Hashoo Group
NBP

A call to investors

Let’s change the world together.

Aqua Tech has partnered with some of the world’s leading companies. If you feel you would also like to
invest in a better tomorrow for all, then we invite you to get in touch with us.

Email: [email protected]
Phone: +44 7951005721

Powerful partnerships

A powerful vision requires strong, trustworthy partners. We have teamed up with industry leaders
to ensure commitment to quality.

Austria

An international brand and design agency with one of Europe’s largest design studios.

Germany

The largest chemical producer in the world, supporting with material for membrane manufacturing.

South Korea

One of the world’s leading membrane spinning and testing equipment manufacturers.

Netherlands

A public company, listed on Euronext Access Paris, which owns patented technology to develop interictally germ-resistant materials.

Singapore

An industry-leading and award-winning membrane and water treatment systems design company based in Singapore.

Our Mission