Mr. Chris M. Gannon has been Chief Financial Officer of Energy Recovery, Inc. since June 8, 2015. Mr. Gannon served as the Vice President and Partner at Talon Group LLC. He served as Managing Director at Conway MacKenzie, a firm focused on providing strategic financial consulting, corporate restructuring, turnaround consulting and performance improvement services to performing and under-performing domestic and international companies. He served in interim management capacities for the firm's clientele, such as CRO, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and other strategic finance functions. Mr. Gannon's responsibilities included strategic planning, financial planning and analysis, financial reporting, KPIs, cash management, performance improvement, deal structuring and negotiation. Previously, Mr. Gannon functioned as an Operations and Turnaround Specialist and Operating Partner to several large private equity funds through Caledonia Group. Prior to that, he served in similar capacity with XRoads Solutions. Mr. Gannon focused on improving private equity backed portfolio companies and senior investment banker with Dresner Partners and Piper Jaffray in mergers and acquisitions and financings. Mr. Gannon has more than 13 years of private equity, mergers and acquisition and operations experience. He received a B.S.E. degree in Industrial and Operations Engineering, with honors, in 1994 from the University of Michigan.