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At Rubicon Infrastructure Partners we are management consultants who help our clients cut through complexity, optimize performance and build cleaner, stronger, more resilient organizations. Specifically, we focus on working with private equity, consulting, infrastructure investors and utility companies to drive revenue growth, operational efficiency and long-term value creation. Our services include assisting clients with due diligence and operational assessments, sector specific thesis development, integration planning, performance optimization, and fractional and interim leadership.
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Our name, Rubicon Infrastructure Partners, is inspired by Julius Caesar and the crossing the Rubicon River as a direct act of defiance against the Roman Senate. The phrase "crossing the Rubicon" has since come to mean a bold commitment to a course of action. We guide our clients through their Rubicon moments, when decisive action defines the future.
100+
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2,000+
Utility systems managed
270
Acquisitions completed
$8.5B
Total value of transactions
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John Eddlemon
Principal
John brings 30 years of leadership experience in the utility operations and engineering sector. He has deep expertise in corporate strategy, operational scaling, risk oversight and mergers and acquisitions. During the course of his career, John has successfully overseen the design and management of over 500 utility systems across the U.S. He has a proven ability to align diverse stakeholders, lead high-impact initiatives, and deliver transformative outcomes in complex and regulated environments.
In addition to his role with Rubicon Infrastructure Partners, John served as COO at Inframark. He is also one of three founders and principals of ESG Operations, Inc., which grew to be the nation’s predominant contract operator in the water and waste water business. ESG Operations was acquired by New Mountain Capital and merged with Inframark in 2021.
John holds a B.S. degree in Natural Resources Engineering and a M.S. degree in Water Resources Engineering from the University of Connecticut and an M.B.A. from the University of Georgia.
Chuck Firlotte
Principal
In addition to his role with Rubicon Infrastructure Partners, Chuck is Chairman of Fibracast Ltd. and is Principal of Laurent Maxime Enterprises, a management consulting firm specializing in organizational strategy, growth and leadership development.
He honed his experience in corporate leadership over the course of three-plus decades, including more than 15 years as President and CEO of Aquarion Water Company, a major water utility player serving some three states in the US northeast. He previously served as the Chairman of NB Power, an electric utility in eastern Canada, and is the former CEO of The HAB Group in the Turks and Caicos Islands, a utility, infrastructure and hospitality-development enterprise.
Chuck is a graduate of the University of Ottawa with a Master's degree in Social sciences and a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Thomas University. He is also a graduate of Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program and Columbia University’s program in Executive Coaching. Chuck holds the Institute of Corporate Directors designation from the University of Toronto.
Walter Lynch
principal
Walter brings a unique blend of big company experience, entrepreneurial instincts and creative problem-solving in growing and scaling fast-growing businesses in highly regulated and competitive industries. He currently is a Board Member and Operating Partner for several private companies and a Senior Advisor and Executive Partner with Private Equity firms, primarily focused on the infrastructure industry.
Previously, Walter served as CEO and COO of American Water, the largest publicly traded water and wastewater utility company in the U.S. While at American Water, he played a significant role in the Company’s Initial Public Offering and was instrumental in increasing market capitalization from $3 billion at the time of the IPO to more than $35 billion.
Walter attended executive education programs at Oxford University in England and IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland, and completed the Advanced Management Program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. He earned a BS in Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point.
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Dec 3, 2025
by Ian Elkins
GLOBAL WATER INTELLIGENCE: Trio of US execs forge brand-new water consultancy
A trio of senior US water executives with more than a century of collective experience have come together to form Rubicon Infrastructure Partners, a new consultancy aimed at advising public and private sector clients on water strategy.