Lisa Farmen, Employee at Aquastry

Ms. Farmen started Clean Water Technology, LLC to commercialize novel water and wastewater treatment technologies in the municipal drinking water and wastewater, food & beverage, stormwater, industrial wastewater and agricultural market spaces.

Ms. Farmen is the Founder and COO of Crystal Clear Technologies, Inc., which is developing nanotechnology capable of removing biological and chemical contaminants from water at an affordable cost

Ms. Farmen received her B.S.-M.S. from Colorado State University and Executive M.B.A. in International Business from Golden Gate University in San Francisco.

As a chemical engineer, she built an OEM engineering and manufacturing company specializing in water, wastewater and chemical recovery systems for the electronics industry. She built revenue to $8M then sold the company to a group of investors.

Crystal Clear Technologies was started after graduating from GGU in 2000 as a consulting engineering company and then incorporated with a Phase 1 Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant with the National Science Foundation (NSF).  CCT won a Phase 2 SBIR grant of $1MM for commercialization of the technology developed in Phase 1. A third SBIR Phase 2 (r) SBIR grant for $220K was won with a NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) to model the nanocoatings. CCT won a $275K ONAMI Gap Grant with the Univ. of Oregon.

Crystal Clear Technologies won the 2006 California Clean Technology Open (CCTO) for the best emerging “Clean-green” technology for Water Management. The CCTO competition is a business plan competition in California for clean green emerging California companies. CCT won the Global symposium business plan competition in 2009.

Ms. Farmen was a guest speaker at the Water Finance & Investment Summit and the Nano Business Alliance 2007& 2008, both in NYC and a panelist for the American Bar Association conference on Nanotechnology and the Clean Water Act .
Ultra Pure Water magazine profiled Ms. Farmen in their March/April 2008 publication.

Crystal Clear Technologies won the National Clean Tech Open in 2006 & 2017.

Ms. Farmen was awarded the Rising Star alumni award from GGU in 2007.