F Rowe Michels

 

Rowe Michels founded Alpheus Water Research in 2016 as a consultancy and investment vehicle targeting innovation in the water sector.

Prior to Alpheus, Rowe held executive management positions at various Wall Street Firms, including multiple Portfolio Manager and Director of Research positions. He also covered the Electric and Water utilities sector where he was the #1-ranked analyst (Institutional Investor) for 11 consecutive years. Rowe has managed various Clean Tech and ESG-compliant funds and authored multiple whitepapers on the Water Sector and ESG Investing.

Rowe earned a bachelor’s degree in Business from Brigham Young University, an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Business, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

He is fluent in Spanish, having accumulated over 8 million frequent flyer miles. Rowe serves on various for-profit and non-profit boards. In 2008, he founded the Sean Michels School in Kenya.

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Re-imagining water as the ground zero sustainability challenge
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Re-imagining water as the ground zero sustainability challenge
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Water should be considered the “ground zero” for sustainable investing as it uniquely addresses all 17 UN SDGs. With global shortages of freshwater, compounded by mushrooming water contamination and related health issues, the water sector needs to follow a completely new regulatory, financial and technological path.

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