Pouring Bottled-Water Profits into Developing Countries
Two entrepreneurs help tackle the clean-water crisis in impoverished communities around the world.
ByGwen Moran•
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Jeffrey Church and Michael Stone are addressing the developing world's clean-water crisis by selling purified water in the developed world.
Water isn't the core business of these two San Diego-based executives. Church is CEO of Universal Building Products, a manufacturer of specialty products for the concrete construction industry, and CEO of Autus Capital, a $25 million private equity firm. Stone is founder and retired chairman of J.H. Whitney Investment Management--where he worked with Church--and a founder and managing member of Westwind Investors.
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