About AERstream

Building the Company Behind a New Water Source.

AERstream brings together experience across invention, research, engineering, manufacturing, brand development, commercialization and global partnerships.

The company is building around a simple ambition: develop a new category of water technology and the organization capable of taking it from invention to real-world deployment.

Our Vision

A Global Well.

The Global Well is AERstream's vision for a world in which clean drinking water can increasingly be created from the atmosphere, across different places, scales and applications.

It represents the idea behind the company: treating air not simply as the environment around us, but as a potential source of water.

Our Founders

The People Behind AERstream.

Fred Maxik

Fred Maxik

Founder & CEO

  • 400+ U.S. and international patents
  • $1.5B+ raised for social and environmental impact businesses
  • Developed human-centric systems for NASA & ISS
Ran Zhou

Ran Zhou

COO & Co-Founder

  • Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
  • Experience across R&D, engineering and manufacturing
  • Product development focused on sustainability, energy efficiency and performance

Global Leadership

Built by Experience Across Markets and Disciplines.

Lucho A. Fuentes

Lucho A. Fuentes

CEO

AERstream LATAM

  • Award-Winning Marketing Leader
  • 25 Years Building Brands
  • 12 Years Scaling Startups
  • Ethnographic Brand Strategy Expert
Juan Pablo Papaleo

Juan Pablo Papaleo

CMO

AERstream LATAM

  • 25 Years Creative Leadership
  • Regional Agency Innovation Leader
  • Serial Entrepreneur & Innovator
  • HP Global Innovation Award Winner
Omid Hamed

Omid Hamed

COO

AERstream ADGM

  • Serial Entrepreneur & Venture Builder
  • Multi-Million Revenue Scaling Experience
  • Cross-Industry Growth Strategy Advisor
  • Strategic Partnerships Across Regions
Amine Mazouzi

Amine Mazouzi

VP, Business Development

AERstream ADGM

  • Execution-Focused Business Builder
  • Energy & Mobility Infrastructure Expert
  • UAE, GCC & Europe Experience
  • Strategic Partnerships Growth Leader
John Grainger

John Grainger

VP, Commercial Engineering

AERstream ADGM

  • Commercial Engineering Executive
  • 30+ Years Product Industrialization
  • Hardware Scale-Up Manufacturing Expert
  • Customer-Driven Engineering Strategy

How We Build

One Company. Multiple Disciplines.

  • IP Development
  • R&D
  • Engineering
  • Manufacturing
  • Brand
  • Commercialization
  • Global Partnerships

Looking Forward

From Invention to a Global Water Company.

AERstream is bringing together technology development, manufacturing, commercial deployment and partnerships around a new approach to water.

The work ahead is not only about building systems. It is about building the company, infrastructure and relationships required to establish a new water category at global scale.

What Comes Next

A New Water Source. New Market Era.

Discover the technology, products and people shaping what comes next.