ARX Infrastructure Leadership:

Proven Value to Our Clients

"The ARX team works closely with our customers to understand their needs, to offer the right capabilities at a cost that is compelling."

 

– Tristan Bounds, ARX CEO

Who Are We?

A team of civil engineers who understand the pain, nuance, and the points of failure throughout the lifecycle of designing, costing, planning, and funding wastewater collection systems.

Leadership Team

Tristian Bounds, CEO

Tristian is driven by a pretty simple belief: water isn’t waste. It’s a resource that restores and strengthens our communities, our landscapes, and even our economies. His vision is to rethink how we design water systems—moving away from the old, one-size-fits-all, centralized models and instead creating solutions that are distributed, resilient, and regenerative. Tristian sees a future where wastewater regenerates communities and where infrastructure makes people and places healthier. Tristian is an accomplished Civil Engineer with twenty-six years of experience developing wastewater treatment processes and state-of-the-art treatment facilities. He holds Professional Engineering Licenses in 10 states and is an active volunteer in the Water Environment Federation. Tristian earned a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering at Boise State University.

Terry Bounds, CTO

Terry applies an incredible breadth and depth of hands-on wastewater engineering experience on behalf of communities, developers, and fellow engineers. In 1981, he co-founded Orenco Systems, where he served in successive roles as executive vice president, president, CTO, and CEO. He was also one of the company’s lead researchers in the field. For fourteen years, Terry served as a special studies engineer for the Douglas County, Oregon Public Works Department, conducting a wide variety of civil, environmental, and structural engineering projects. His most notable project was the pioneering 2300-unit Effluent Sewer (STEP) system at Glide, Oregon. In parallel, for ten years, Terry taught engineering classes at Umpqua Community College. Terry presently serves on the Onside Technical Review Committee of the US EPA. Terry earned his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering at Oregon State University and is a licensed civil, environmental, structural, and manufacturing engineer.

Shane Hunt, President

Shane is driven by the belief that better infrastructure decisions require better intelligence, objectivity, and speed. As President, Shane leads the commercialization, growth strategy, and market adoption of the company’s wastewater decision-intelligence platform—bridging advanced engineering, software, and real-world development economics. He is focused on removing friction, bias, and unnecessary cost from how wastewater collection systems are evaluated and selected.

Shane brings more than two decades of executive leadership across Software, GIS, AI, infrastructure, and professional services, with deep experience scaling market-driven platforms and aligning product innovation with customer value. His background includes senior leadership roles with global software firms, management consulting at Boston Consulting Group Digital Ventures, and founding and scaling technology-enabled companies. Shane is passionate about helping communities and developers make faster and financially sound wastewater decisions.

Ronen Barkan

Ronen Barkan, Director of Business Development

Ronen is passionate about bringing innovative technologies and practical engineering together to create better, more sustainable, and economically viable solutions for the water and wastewater industry. His professional career spans 16 years solving customer needs by driving commercialization, business development, and strategic partnerships into new markets.

Ronen spent 14 years with Fluence, where he successfully commercialized Membrane Aerated Biofilm Reactor (MABR) technology in North America and other parts of the world. Earlier in his career, Ronen represented other leading global wastewater equipment manufacturers, including, Huber Technology, Xylem, Smith & Loveless, Polychem Systems and others.

Ronen’s current focus is on helping clients navigate complex wastewater and water, collection and treatment challenges by combining advanced engineering approaches with practical, cost-effective solutions.

Find out how ARX can help you make better wastewater decisions quicker, for lower cost.