About

OXbyEL has generated over $3.5M in undiluted funding via US Air Force, National Science Foundation, EPA, and Private Sector Fortune 500 contracts and grants. We currently are offering an Open Seed Round for $3M. The technology has been derisked with numerous prototypes, and OXbyEL has two MVP level projects scheduled for 2025, one with a DoD customer at a City of Tucson drinking water well and the second with a large North American Utility. Municipal, industrial, and military end- users are keen to engage OXbyEL’s differentiating technology. We welcome the opportunity to perform treatability testing on your water or wastewater matrix, and to design a specific solution solving your problem.

Ed Ricci

President, CEO, And Co-Founder

As President and CEO, Ed brings over 35 years of executive level leadership to OXbyEL. His background includes marketing, business development, strategic sales initiatives, personnel management, organizational structuring, and operations management.

Prior to OXbyEL, Ed was SVP and leader of a nationwide Consultancy’s Environmental Services business where he grew and managed a $100M practice for 22 years. He specialized in business growth and leadership, and in the technical areas of groundwater contamination, Superfund/ RCRA, industrial water, and regulatory permitting and compliance. Ed met co-Founder Dr. Legzdins when they were both consulting on wastewater treatment plant performance at an oil and gas refinery. Based on their combined passion around eliminating pollutants in water and wastewater, OXbyEL Technologies was formed.

Ed received his M.S. from Iowa State University in Water Resources and B.S. from Virginia Tech in Forestry and Wildlife.

Colleen Legzdins

Vice President Of Technology

As VP of Technology, Colleen leads the technical development of OXbyEL’s proprietary treatment processes. Prior to OXbyEL, Colleen founded Axine Water Technologies, an award-winning company that has commercialized an industrial wastewater treatment process. Colleen’s experience also includes technical leadership in advanced materials development and manufacturing. She was a senior engineer and leader of the R&D gas diffusion layer team at Ballard Power Systems, the leading global provider of innovative clean energy and fuel cell solutions, and then Program Office Team Lead at Ballard Material Products, a global supplier of electrochemical and friction carbon products.

Colleen received her PhD in Metals and Materials Engineering and B.A.Sc. in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of British Columbia. She has 9 granted or pending patents in water treatment, electrochemistry, catalysis and materials, and numerous peer-reviewed publications.