Wayne Byrne is a serial water-tech entrepreneur who founded, scaled, and exited four cleantech companies over 15 years before becoming a venture partner at Burnt Island Ventures, bringing repeat-founder experience rather than a purely financial background to backing new water entrepreneurs. He specializes in waste-to-resource and industrial water technologies while also co-founding Method Capital to provide non-dilutive project finance, positioning him as an investor who thinks beyond early-stage equity to how water infrastructure actually gets financed and built.