Jeff Barnsdale
Systems Business Manager
Grundfos
Jeff Barnsdale has been in the water treatment and distribution field for over 15 years. Jeff began his career within the supply chain management at Xerox corporation. After that Jeff was in charge of all gas underground purchasing, inventory, and logistics management for the northeast including Rochester Gas and Electric, New York State Electric and Gas, Connecticut and Southern Connecticut Natural Gas. For the last 15 plus years Jeff has been an Operations, Product, and Business unit manager within the Water Treatment municipal and industrial segments. Jeff has successfully performed custom skid systems business unit start ups at the last 2 corporations he has been employed, including Grundfos. Jeff has been employed at Grundfos since 2015 and has held leadership roles as Plant Manager at Grundfos YCC in Aurora IL, Business Unit Manager Grundfos Dosing Skid Systems, Grundfos Packaged Systems Manager and currently Grundfos Systems Business Manager.
Juho Venaelaeinen
Senior Internal Sales Engineer
Grundfos
Juho Venaelaeinen is a Senior Internal Sales Engineer at Grundfos, covering Controls and Digital Solutions for North American Water Utility market. He started his career at Grundfos 5 years ago as an Application Engineer. He was responsible for the municipal customers in the western part of the US, facilitating the growth of chemical feed skid sales in the region. Recently he moved to his current role, focusing on sales of controls equipment and solutions, including custom controls for dosing pumps and skids. Juho holds an MSc in mechanical engineering from Lappeenranta University of Technology in Lappeenranta, Finland.