Our Story
Katie Anderson started her career in real estate at the young age of 21 by investing in single family housing, soon becoming a commercial real estate appraiser at age 22. After 4 years of gaining experience in the valuation of real estate, she honed her focus to the utility side of expenses, more specifically, water.
By 29, Katie founded Save Water Co®, and has since gained global recognition for the company’s innovations and solutions to one of the world’s biggest issues. In 2015, Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30 chose Katie as a leading ‘game changer’ within the energy space. Just two years later, in 2017, Cartier chose Katie as the winning Laureate of North America for the Cartier Women’s Initiative Award.
She’s assembled an award winning team with backgrounds in energy, science, policy, agriculture, and education. Together they have serviced over 90,000 apartment units, saved over 4 billion gallons of water, and deferred over 2,200 tons from entering landfills. Having a collective passion for approaching issues from a holistic “win-win” approach, the company prides themselves in their level of accuracy, precision, authenticity, and customer service for the solutions they provide.
Our Leadership Team
Katie Anderson, Founder
Katie’s vision and impact have garnered recognition by Forbes Magazine as one of Forbes 30 under 30 Game Changers in energy, as well as winning Laureate of North America by the Cartier Women's Initiative Awards. In addition to entrepreneurship, her creativity expands into poetry and storytelling under her alias The Luckiest Woman. Whether swimming with whales off the coast of Tonga or racing horses across the Egyptian desert, her internal explorer seeks the full breadth experience of life.
Kurt Goedrich, Operations
As a founding member, Kurt thoroughly understands the company operations and industry. Kurt previously worked in education as a coach, teacher, and principal, gaining unique skill-sets in management and leadership. His focus and study of mathematics has been a basis for the accuracy and precision of data analytics and savings estimates within the companies. When not saving water, he enjoys its fruits, fishing the bays, rivers, and lakes in the southern U.S.
Keith Kutac, Procurement
Keith ensures supplies, company-wide, are accurate and timely. He is the driving force behind development of new services and operations. His diverse background in lake management, oil and gas, and agriculture has allowed him to excel at resource management and technical challenges. Being a founding member, he enjoys troubleshooting challenges and being hands on at the forefront. This desire translates to his enjoyment of all things outdoors in his personal time, whether that is spent fishing or hunting, or being out in nature.
Laurie Goedrich, Accounts
Laurie joined the team in 2018 bringing over 10 years of accounting experience in the utility industry. Her keen sense of detail and accounting knowledge provides thoroughness and accuracy to the company. Laurie maintains financial accuracy company wide, whether that be internal calculations or external communication with clients and projects. She likes to decompress from numbers by spending time being an avid sports mom to her 3 active kids.
Ashley Wirzberg, Sales
Ashley joined the team in 2018, bringing 15 years of real estate appraisal experience as well as 7 years experience in testing water quality. She focuses on client relations and excels in understanding the benefits and value add that can be achieved through conservation with multi-family assets.
Laura Nicholson, Marketing
Laura has a background in Bioenvironmental Science studies from Texas A&M University, apartment sales, and water regulation. She supports Save Co Services in client relations and marketing. In addition to work, she enjoys fishing, hunting, and hanging out with her golden retrievers.
Connie Brown, Field Operations
Connie brings a wide variety of skillsets to Save Co Services with a background in general construction and field management. She joined the Save Water Co team in 2014, its founding year, and has been impactful in its implementation, growth and program development. A serious chef, you will catch her on the bbq pit over the weekends.
Wayne Wilson, Field Operations
Wayne joined Save Co Services in 2016 bringing over 23 years of plumbing experience to the team and holds a Master Plumbing license. Wayne’s experience spans across stadiums, hospitals, residential, industrial, and commercial real estate. He oversees training and quality craftsmanship inside the company. He is an avid outdoorsman and volunteers teaching at plumbing schools.