Jeffrey Fulgham

Jeffrey Fulgham

Chief Sustainability Officer, GE Power & Water

Jeffrey Fulgham was appointed Chief Sustainability Officer and Ecomagination Leader in April, 2010. He is responsible for leading the division’s sustainability initiative. As chief sustainability officer and ecomagination leader, he provides leadership for the company’s Ecomagination program, water reuse and reduction initiatives, and the Water for Humanity program.

A 27-year veteran in the water industry, Fulgham began his career in 1981 in industrial water treatment chemical sales at Nalco. In 1989, he joined Betz Laboratories, Inc. as a field salesman in the Power Division and was promoted to Corporate Sales Manager for Power Generation in 1994. From 1998 to 2002, he held positions of increasing responsibility within the commercial and corporate sales organizations until the company was acquired by GE Water & Process Technologies. Since that date of acquisition, he has a variety of senior leadership roles in global marketing.

Fulgham has been a key speaker at numerous industry events, including UN International Water Conference, Goldman Sachs Global Water Conference, US-India Business Council for Green India, NASA Environmental & Energy Conference, and Executive Energy Forum.

Places that today aren’t really seeing a particular water challenge, are absolutely going to have problems if we don’t change our ways. 
2.5 billion people in the world don’t have access to improved sanitation.
So we need to stop thinking about a waste water stream as pure waste and look at it as an asset.
2 min
Water is nearly free in much of the U.S. But is pricing water at a higher rate necessary to maintain and improve an aging, inefficient water system?
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Waste water is stigmatized, but it can actually be purified beyond the quality needed for drinking water. This makes it a viable solution to increasing water demands.
4 min
Old municipal water systems can leak away between 30 and 60 percent of water before it even reaches consumers—making the need for an updated, smart system even more pressing.
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A conversation with the Chief Sustainability Officer of GE Power & Water.