MATTEO ARCARI
Chief Operating Officer
Milano, Italia
Matteo holds a Bachelor and a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering (1997)
from the Polytechnic of Milan, with a major in Plants Design and Engineering. He
developed a 1‐year experimental thesis focused on “Membrane processes for
Wastewater Reuse in the Textile Industry”.
He holds a Master of Business Administration (2000) from the Univ. of San Diego,
California (USA), with a major in “New Ventures Finance” and a dissertation on
“Strategic Management of New Ventures”. During the final semester Matteo joined
USD’s “Reno Team” on recommendation of Prof. S. Deshpande.
Matteo has participated in the startup and commissioning of over 200 Reverse
Osmosis Units at MEMBRANE throughout his high school and college years (1988‐
1997) as well as developing network infrastructures and upgrading applications and
standards on AutoCAD, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Project. Since 1993 he has
cooperated as a consultant for Reverse osmosis plants design and optimization and
then developed chemical‐physical aspects during design and engineering phases.
After a short experience during 1996 and 1997 in the Research Dept. at MEMBRANE
he left Italy and joined Fluid Systems Corp. in San Diego, CA (USA). As applications
engineer and got in‐depth understanding of Reverse Osmosis Nanofiltration,
Ultrafiltration, and Microfiltration technologies by designing thousands of
applications.
Matteo returned to Italy in 2001 to begin working as Marketing Manager at
MEMBRANE. In this role he introduced innovations to the working environment of
the company expanding the Customer base and increased profits and sales. He has
also completely re‐engineered MEMBRANE’s organizational structure focusing on
Management aspects. His initial goals were: bringing Membrane to ISO 9001
qualification, getting OHSAS 18001 qualification, acquiring International Oil&Gas
Companies as direct Customers (e.g. Exxon, Shell, HHI, SBM, ENI, and ESSO). The
goals were achieved within 24 months from joining MEMBRANE. On such Projects
Matteo has also acted as Project Manager.
In 2006 he has become Director of Marketing and Sales, not only coordinating a
team of sales managers but also implementing a high‐end internal management
system based on SAP. Design, customization, and implementation of SAP
structure and procedures has been entirely under Matteo’s responsibility. The
conversion of MEMBRANE’s organization, the establishment of new relationships
with International Customers and Vendors resulted from such effort.
Effective 2009 he has assumed responsibility as Chief Operating Officer. This new
role enabled Matteo to establish strategic partnerships with Customers who put
additional trust in Membrane resulting in multi‐million Euro contracts.
He also authored several articles, technical reviews, as well as being guest at
specialized meetings and international symposiums on water treatment
technologies and Reverse Osmosis Membranes in the USA, Switzerland, UAE,
China. His main field of activity covers specific applications and not conventional
use of membranes.
He is co‐owner of patents for chemical species’ purification with membranes.
Matteo has recently been awarded a new patent on a special failure‐detection
technology in the Reverse Osmosis and Nanofiltration application fields.
Matteo is an active member of the Board at Assolombarda‐Confindustria, the
Italian Entrepreneurial Association, for the territory of Milano and province.
http://www.assolombarda.it/governance/organizzazione-zonale/componenti/
Finally, he is a member of IDA (Int’l Desalination Association), ISPE
(Pharmaceutical Engineering), and a registered Professional Engineer (PE) with
the Association of Chemical Engineers of Italy (AIDIC).
Matteo is committed to entrepreneurial and leadership education, positive
societal change, dissemination of state‐of‐the‐art business knowledge.
In his free time Matteo contributes to bonsai art (3‐year diploma under Japanese
Bonsai Master Nobuyuki Kajiwara) and astronomy (including cooperation with the
Italian Lab of Physics and NASA).