“His rise to the presidency of Crystal Wells Waterworks had marked the pinnacle of a storied career.”

His rise to the presidency of Crystal Wells Waterworks had marked the pinnacle of a storied career. One of the wealthiest men in the water industry, he had seized the bottled water trend in the early ’80s with an entrepreneur’s instinct and a scientist’s precision. Back then, he was just a sharp-eyed Environmental Science graduate from Drexel University, all pitch-black hair and untamed ambition. Fresh out of college, Erik began working for the same company he had interned with—Crystal Wells Waterworks, a modest water and waste provider serving 100,000 customers on the outskirts of Philadelphia.