25 year career as a strategy consultant, researcher and market innovator in the water and energy sectors, serving the Fortune 250, Hayes has led client R&D projects for safer water supply, simpler water treatment, smarter power generation, greener building design, friendlier energy, chemical, food and paper production, smarter machines, sustainable irrigation, and a simpler, more secure smart-grid. President and Co-founder of WellIntel, a milwaukee-based water technology company that is developing simple sensing and sharing technologies to help people learn about and care for their groundwater.