The Delight of Water - A Podcast CEU

Director Home Water Systems at Delta Faucet Company and Certified Water Sommelier-Fine Water Academy

Mike brings extensive experience in product development to his role in research and development, where he works in the “fuzzy front end” of R&D to identify and develop breakthrough product concepts. Collaborating with a wide variety of functional areas and people, he develops strategies and solutions that enable consumers to thoughtfully track, control, and improve the impact of water in their own lives.

Professor / Department Chair

Computer Science, Mathematics & Science

American University of Paris

Professor Berg joined the Department of Computer Science, Math & Science at the American University of Paris in January of 2014. She is a broadly trained evolutionary biologist interested in multidisciplinary questions about how behavior, morphology, life history, and genetics vary across different environments and spatial scales. After receiving her Master’s degree in Biological Anthropology from Cambridge University, Berg went on to pursue a PhD in Animal Behavior.. As a postdoc at UCLA, Portland State University, Harvard University, and Uppsala University in Sweden, she explored a diversity of topics. Berg also conducts research on drinking water and the bottled water industry. She is a certified water sommelier and conducts taste tests with her students and other members of the AUP community.

Head of Research & Content Development

Erica Waayenberg, LEED AP, is an interior designer, marketer, and a strategy-minded problem solver. Erica embraces design thinking with a career that has encompassed interior design, sales, strategic program development, marketing management, and consulting within the design world. Erica’s enthusiasm for design and how we connect to our surroundings was fostered in her education in interior design from Michigan State University. She is passionate about the creative process, authentic marketing, the built environment, and connecting people with inspired and thoughtful design. To her role at ThinkLab, Erica brings a well-rounded industry perspective paired with eagerness to inform and inspire industry members of all types through research-based insights. Outside of her office, Erica loves to travel, be outdoors, dive into messy creative play with her boys, and savor great conversation with friends and family over coffee or a French 75.