ABOUT FUTUREPUMP

Very hard-working person.

Gert Jan is the inventor of Futurepump’s solar pump technology. He has over 30 years of engineering experience in developing countries and also designed and developed the well-known Volanta hand pump. Gert Jan is the founder of the PRACTICA Foundation.

A very sincere and hard-working person, highly conscious about cleanliness. They are responsible for housekeeping in our Factory's B-Block and assist with packing when required.

Very sincere and hard-working powerful individual. A natural-leader working in our pump assembly team.

A sincere and hardworking young fellow in our Factory's team. He assists with electrica work on our solar panels and helps pack them ready for orders.

Martina coordinates and organises activities to support existing and future Futurepump distributors. This means focusing on technical maintenance challenges, user issues and pump design alterations. Her role is essential to maintaining the quality and effectiveness of after-sale support provided by Futurepump to their distributors and customers.

Toby is an entrepreneur with extensive experience of low-cost manufacturing within the renewables industry, establishing new companies and building distribution networks.

A quiet member, sincere and hard-working machine operator.

Jaydeep is an energetic member of our production team, handling electrical works with our solar panels and ploggers.

Jitendra is a senior and multi-faceted entrepreneur with a long career in design, development and manufacturing in the mechanical, electrical and electronics sector. Starting his career as a merchant navy marine radio officer, he went on to co-found India’s Adroit Systems in 1987, a high-profitability technology firm focussing on the design and manufacture of specialist motors and generators for the defence industry. Taking various senior leadership roles (finance, product development, manufacturing and management), after over twenty years of service Jitendra exited Adroit and in 2007 was made the Director of leading vending machine supplier The Haute Company, before joining Futurepump in 2013.

A great helper to our factory team, supporting in- and out-bound materials and packing our solar pumps ready for orders.

Nitin is a meticulous engineer with creative bent. Very quick learner and a superb task master. He has been adding skills and taking up challenges.

A geophysics and oceanography graduate, Helen joins our team to support the collection and analysis of data from our remote monitoring system included on every Futurepump.

Devin is a young, energetic, hardworking engineer, ready to absorb knowledge. He works in production, supervising QC at every stage.

A sincere and hard-working helper, carrying out all assigned tasks. Jayshreeben helps handle the spares and tools kits, along with PV panel wiring.

Very hard-working farm-hand, responsible for horticultural work around the factory, picking fresh vegetables for our canteen.

A quiet member, sincere and hard-working helper. They are a quick learner in our production team, helping pack our spares kits and assist in plogger assembly.

Mehul is a sincere and hardworking fellow. He works testing our solar pumps and getting them ready to pack for orders.

A very quick, energetic and a dependable member of our team. Piyush assists in assembling our ploggers and getting our solar pumps ready for packing.

A quiet, sincere and hard-working helper. They are a quick learner on our plastics moulding machines and assist with packing our solar pumps.

A sincere, hardworking team member who has been acquiring many skills quickly. He handles demonstration at PRADAN site.

They are a steady and constant worker, handling pump assembly along with engineering operations.

An all-rounder at our factory who handles most outdoor work and helps with catering in our canteen.

A very sincere and hard-working member of our team. They are responsible for catering in our canteen

A sincere and hardworking member of our team. They handle electrical work relating to our solar panels along with packing them

An environmental scientist by background, Helen is based in the UK managing our digital marketing team as well as leading communications with investors and overseeing the collection and analysis of the technical and impact data gathered from the field.

Steve comes from an engineering background and has 20 years experience in technical sales. He has spent several years in both renewables and pump and rotating equipment industries, and he is now helping us expand the sale of our solar water pumps into South America.

With a background in environmental science and communications Freya is supporting our marketing and communications work, as well as helping manage our social media.

Brian has been in sales for over 35 years, his expertise is in global distribution and customer service. He has a passion for renewable energy and how it can be used to help our planet.

Before joining Futurepump, Jigisha was a highly successful architect, gaining her license in 1989 and for over twenty years was involved in a variety of high profile projects. This involved leading and managing large teams of architects and draughtsmen, and included the design of Hindu temples for a religious group in the USA. She has also been heavily involved in a number of charitable organizations. In 2006 Jigisha took up the challenge of designing and helping to construct a major manufacturing facility in Himachal Pradesh, and has been an instrumental member of Futurepump India since its inception in 2013.

Quentin gained his qualifications with a ‘big four’ accountancy firm. He has a experience in designing, overseeing and managing complex financial systems and auditing for large multinational businesses.

Ashok is a very quick learner, he is responsible for the factory store and assists the Admin Head.

Manthan is responsible for our book-keeping and accountancy work at our factory in India.