Leadership Team
Trevor T. Hill
Mr. Hill is co-founder of Global Water and serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Global Water and the Issuer and a member of the boards of directors of Global Water and the Issuer. Prior to 2003, he co-founded Algonquin Water Resources of America, a division of the Algonquin Power Income Fund, where he served as Director of Operations from 2000 to 2003. In 1994, Mr. Hill co-founded Hill, Murray & Associates, a design-build firm specializing in the construction and operation of water reclamation facilities in British Columbia and the Canadian Arctic. He retired from the Canadian Navy in 1994, after serving as an engineering officer and receiving the Gulf Kuwait Medal for his service in the 1991 Gulf War. Mr. Hill graduated from Royal Roads Military College with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1987. He attended the Royal Naval Engineering College in Plymouth, England and completed his post-graduate studies in 1988.
Cindy M. Liles
Ms. Liles currently serves as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Global Water and the Issuer and prior to such appointment served as Global Water's Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. She joined Global Water in 2004 upon Global Water's first acquisitions, Santa Cruz and Palo Verde, and served as Chief Financial Officer until July 2008. From 2002 until joining Global Water, Ms. Liles was an owner of and served as the Chief Financial Officer and General Manager of those utilities. She is a CPA with over 20 years of accounting and management experience with public companies including Holiday Inns Worldwide and Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. Ms. Liles graduated from Delta State University with a degree in Accounting.
Leo P. Commandeur
Mr. Commandeur is co-founder and serves as Senior Vice President for Business Development of Global Water. Prior to 2003, he co-founded Algonquin Water Resources of America where he served as Director of Business Development. Previously, Mr. Commandeur co-founded and served as Chief Financial Officer for Visionary Solution Corporation, an information technology company which was taken public in 1996 and later sold to a strategic buyer. Mr. Commandeur attended Selkirk College, where he studied accounting and business. He then continued his accounting studies through the Society of Management Accountants.
Graham S. Symmonds
Mr. Symmonds serves as the Senior Vice President of Regulatory Affairs and Compliance and Chief Technology Officer of Global Water. In 2003, Mr. Symmonds joined Global Water as the Senior Vice President for regulatory and compliance matters. Prior to joining Global Water, Mr. Symmonds had joined Algonquin Water Resources of America in 2001, where he was utility manager for Arizona and Texas, responsible for all business, technical and regulatory operations. In 1995, Mr. Symmonds joined Hill, Murray & Associates as Director of Operations and developed the firm's formal design control practices for membrane bioreactor water reclamation facilities. In 1986, Mr. Symmonds was commissioned as an officer in the Canadian Navy and spent nine years employed in a variety of operational and support roles. Mr. Symmonds graduated from the University of Toronto in 1985 with a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Mechanical Engineering. He concluded his post-graduate education at the Royal Naval Engineering College in Plymouth, England.
Jason C. Bethke
Mr. Bethke currently serves as the Vice President of FATHOM™ and prior to such appointment served as the Director of Engineering and Construction. Mr. Bethke officially joined Global Water in 2007 after providing consulting services to Global Water through Bethke Engineering, where he served as its founder and president. Mr. Bethke brings over 15 years of management and engineering experience related to water resources in the Southwest United States. He holds masters degrees in business and engineering from Arizona State University and relocated to Arizona in 1995 after graduating from the University of Illinois - Urbana with a degree in civil engineering.
Ed C. Borromeo
Mr. Borromeo currently serves as the Vice President of Operations of Global Water and prior to such appointment he served as the General Manager of the regulated utilities within the Maricopa/Casa Grande and Eloy Regions in Pinal County, Arizona. Mr. Borromeo officially joined Global Water in 2006 and prior to that served as a commissioned officer in the United States Air Force, specializing in operations and project management in the civil engineering field. He holds a bachelors degree in civil and environmental engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and a masters degree in business from Webster University.