Jantje Johnson is a Dutch chemical engineer with more than 25 years’ experience in water treatment. She is the founder and CTO of OrangeBoat, which was established in 2009 and today provides consulting services for water treatment systems globally with an emphasis on membrane technologies. OrangeBoat’s scope of services includes design and operation support and the development of technical tools like Navigator and WayPoint. The company provides services for endusers, EPCs, membrane manufacturers, OEMs and operators.

Jantje has an extensive background in membranes, systems, and water treatment chemicals. Her working career started at NIVOBA in the Netherlands where she was responsible for the design, engineering and start-up of solid/liquid separation equipment in food and wastewater applications internationally.

At Nalco (Europe and Americas), she was responsible for sales and technical support pertaining to the PermaCare membrane chemicals product line. She worked at DOW (Europe and North America) in its membrane division where she was responsible for DOW’s membrane software program (ROSA), RO/NF membrane development, quality and technical service.

Jantje has developed technical tools that are used on a daily basis to design, to monitor and to maintain RO/NF systems. She has presented papers at international conferences and conducted workshops and trainings. She is also a peer reviewer for scientific journals and is currently a Board Director & Vice President at the International Desalination and Water Reuse Association (IDRA).