Our Story
Winner Water Services is owned and led by two dynamic businesswomen who have established themselves as leaders and visionaries. Their commitment to creating exceptional businesses operations across industries from steel to retail, hospitality to security products, through creative vision and hands on management destine Winner Water Services to add to the lineage of the successful Winner Companies.
We provide environmentally sound and technologically advanced solutions to solve water challenges for power, mining and manufacturing, oil, and gas industries. We design effective, tailored water solutions. That means we’re not just another water treatment company—we’re problem solvers, finding novel approaches to industry challenges. We offer a combination of deep industry experience, scientific knowledge and proprietary technology that is unmatched in the industry. Our solutions employ Battelle HydroFlex™ technology to deliver the most cost effective, sustainable water management solutions available today.

Karen Winner Sed
Owner, CEO, and Chairman of the Board
Karen has been active in Winner Water Services since its inception, serving in various roles up to assuming the executive leadership position in 2010. Her background includes extensive experience in management, marketing, and strategic planning. As an enterprising entrepreneur, she has been on the ground floor of multiple start-up businesses and instrumental in transitioning them to sustainable ongoing operations.
Prior to assuming the role of CEO, she served as CEO of a consumer product company with national and international reach. Her leadership and business acumen has afforded her valuable opportunities to serve in leadership roles at local, regional, and state level. She holds an MBA with a concentration in management.

Donna C. Winner
Owner and Vice Chairman of the Board
Donna serves as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Winner Water Services. Her background includes multiple ventures in the tourism industry and hospitality sector. These successful ongoing enterprises employ hundreds of individuals. A trailblazer and leader of women in business, she was the first female stockbroker in Mercer County, PA. Her expertise in finances and the broader market has served her well. In addition, Donna has served on multiple board including banking, public and private foundations in various capacities.
A philanthropist, she has also served on charitable and college boards. Her vision and entrepreneurial spirit have been recognized with the receipt of several awards for tourism, innovation, and business growth.

Charles Miller
CFO
Charles has worked for Winner Water Services as CFO since its inception. He has held the same position for the Winner Companies since July of 2001. He has over 30 years of experience working for two different companies as CFO in a multitude of industries including wholesale trade, retail electronics and clothing, marketing and sales, real estate management, restaurants, water remediation development for acid mine drainage, steel, and hotel management.
Additionally, he has been responsible for line-item budget and planning, managing financial documentation, payments, financing, and reporting for all entities.

Todd Beers
COO
Todd brings more than 15 years of professional experience in the environmental and water industries. He has worked in all phases of water development from sampling and assessments to permit preparation and disposal. Specific program expertise includes NPDES, Chapters 93 and 95, as well as Chapter 78—the Oil and Gas Act.
Todd worked for Pennsylvania regulatory agencies as a watershed specialist and for several private firms. His expertise provides our clients invaluable assistance with permitting and related technical and regulatory challenges.

Jack V. Campbell
Vice President and Secretary
Jack earned his BA and JD degrees from Ohio Northern University and has more than 40 years of experience handling business matters and corporate governance. Jack has worked for Winner Water Services since its inception with his primary focus on contract preparation and review, real estate facilities oversight, and overseeing the filing and maintaining of the company’s portfolio of intellectual property.
Technical Advisory Team
David Dreisinger
David completed his B.A.Sc. and Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering at Queen’s University in Kingston. Since 1984, David has worked at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Since 1992, David has held the position of Chair, Industrial Research Chair in Hydrometallurgy (18 current sponsors). Technical short courses are offered annually to sponsors. David has delivered, with co-workers, over 300 industry-based courses on a wide range of hydrometallurgy topics. David has researched widely with students and coworkers, and together has published over 250 papers and been granted 19 U.S. patents.
David has worked closely with industries to commercialize the technology. Developments in copper include the Mount Gordon Process, the Sepon Copper Process, and the Boleo Process.
Gary Kordosky
Gary has an M.S. in Organic Chemistry (1967) and a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry (1971) from The Ohio State University. While doing his graduate work, he lectured freshman Chemistry at Ohio State and he also taught two years at Ohio Wesleyan University for faculty members on leave. In 1974, Gary joined the Mining Chemicals Devision of General Mills Chemicals at its Tucson development and applications laboratory.
Gary has more than 40 years of experience in various aspects of solvent extraction, including 16 years in the laboraotyr where he was responsible for reagent specifications, reagent development, reagent evaluations, laboratory management, process development and technical service. He also had responsibilities in technical sales and marketing in Africa, Australia, South American and Asia.
Russell K. Smith, PE
Russell is a highly experienced chemical process engineer with experience ranging from unit operations design to leading integrated process designs for full-scale processes. Russell has worked or consulted on include water purification, wastewater treatment, polymer production, paper manufacturing and recovery of by-products, water and wastewater treatment, chemical demilitarization and chemical defense, air pollution control, industrial ventilation, bioenergy production, fuel production, hydrogenation, and distillation for refining. Russell has demonstrated expertise in process scale-up, system design, numerous unit operations, process inorganic and organic chemistry, environmental management, design of experiments at both laboratory and pilot scale, and laboratory testing for both scale-up and technical risk reduction related to process design.