Growing up riding dirt bikes in Agoura Hills before urban sprawl took over the area’s open spaces, Southern California native Eddie Gordon had a penchant for vehicle mechanics, technology, and the outdoors.

Just about every company talks about culture, Crown works tirelessly to actually walk the walk. We don’t always nail it, but we do our best to improve each day.

Born in New Zealand, Joel Krutz had an agricultural upbringing where he would rise at 5 am to milk cows on the family farm. It was through this early experience that he learned his first lessons in sustainability.

Vermont born, Alaska raised, California refined—Crown Electrokinetics’ new content manager has an intimate relationship with sustainability and has seen the impacts of climate change firsthand.

As anyone who has gotten a company off of the ground can attest, the journey of building Crown Electrokinetics has been a rollercoaster ride. In the past six years, there were enticing offers to sell the company. There were also times when we weren’t entirely sure that we’d survive. But now, we’re publicly-traded on Nasdaq, better capitalized and poised for the myriad opportunities ahead.