Philip M. Rolchigo

Philip M. Rolchigo, Ph.D. currently serves as executive vice president and chief technology officer (CTO) for Pentair. Rolchigo is a recognized thought leader in the field of water and wastewater treatment technologies. He served on the National Academy of Sciences’ Advancing Desalination Technology committee and has received 20 U.S. patents. Rolchigo also sits on a number of technology advisory boards including the Water Environment & Reuse Foundation’s Research Advisory Council. Prior to joining Pentair in 2007, he was CTO at Osmonics and held various leadership positions at GE Water & Process Technologies. Rolchigo holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Rochester, a Ph.D. in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and was an Industrial Research Affiliate in Chemical Engineering at MIT from 1990 to 1992.