Rick Vansant

Background

About Rick Vansant

Rick is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. Rick is a Director of Sentry Water Monitoring Technologies, a partner with Toronto based private equity investment group 1440 Capital, and past Chair of the Board of WaterTAP Ontario, the province of Ontario’s water technology accelerator. Sentry Water Monitoring Technologies is a water technology company specializing in advanced biologic monitoring systems. The SENTRY water sensor platform is a unique and disruptive solution for real-time monitoring of microbial activity in smart water and wastewater treatment applications. Sentry systems are installed in China, Africa, Europe, Latin America and North America. Rick served as Senior Adviser to the Climate/Cleantech sector at MaRS Discovery District from 2019 until 2024. From 2002 to 2018 he was a Director, President and founding CEO of UV Pure Technologies, a Canadian environmental technology company that develops and manufactures advanced UV water disinfection technology. It has an installed base of over applications in North America, LATAM and ASEAN countries, and the EU. Prior to UV Pure, Rick founded several public and private companies and was a member and Director of the Young Presidents’ Organization, in Toronto. He has a degree in Astro-geophysics from Colgate University, a Masters of Education from St. Lawrence University, and is a graduate of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Business’ Institute of Corporate Directors program.