Bob Cook

Chief Technology Officer

Robert "Bob" Cook, Chief Technology Officer, brings four decades of applied chemical engineering experience to Valicor Environmental Services, a portfolio company of PPC (Pritzker Private Capital), with a career defined by building technical organizations that solve problems others have not yet framed.

Bob earned his BS in Chemical Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University and began his career developing ceramic membrane products and applications across a range of demanding industrial applications, including oil and gas, metals finishing, and semiconductor manufacturing. In 1994, he co-founded MET, a Houston-based specialty chemicals firm where he served as Technical Manager and developed a proprietary caustic regeneration process using inorganic reaction crystallization. Under his technical leadership, MET became the recognized leader in byproduct recovery for specialty chemical and refining alkylation, earning the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Governor's Award for Hazardous Waste Reduction in 1998. The company was subsequently acquired by USFilter, with operations retained by Veolia, where Bob advanced to Senior Vice President of Engineering and Technology Development for Veolia North America Industrial.

Bob joined Valicor in July 2022 as Executive Vice President of Engineering and Technology Development and currently serves as Chief Technology Officer. Leveraging technical development assets across Valicor's CWT network, he leads the company's process engineering for strategic capital development and growth, commercial support for new opportunities, internal analytical services, operational training and support, and vendor and partner integration across its commercial wastewater treatment network.