Meet the Founder

Peter Gallerani is ITI’s President and Chief Technology Officer, responsible for leading new business development, key client support, and project management. Peter also provides principal level process engineering support on select projects, and ensures ITI’s overall body of knowledge in surface finishing and environmental technologies is always expanding.

Before founding ITI, Peter began his career owning and running a contract surface finishing facility for seven years. He then worked with Resource Consultants in Nashville, TN, and he was a Vice President and Global Practice Leader for CH2M Hill Engineered Systems (now Jacobs Engineering Group).

An AESF Fellow, Peter is an internationally known expert in anodizing, chromating, electroplating, electroless plating, electropolishing, phosphating, passivation, and many other surface engineering and finishing processes. He is also an expert in the application of environmental and energy technologies for toxics use and waste reduction, energy use reduction, water and wastewater treatment and recycling, ventilation and air pollution control, and AZD (approaching zero discharge). His operational areas of expertise include process planning and development, process improvement and control, process modeling and mapping, project/program management, process engineering and design, process automation, lean manufacturing, process commissioning, operations support, make/buy analysis, activity based costing, and technology demonstration and validation. He is also the co-developer of Plato’s Process Planner™ expert software for the simulation, visualization, and optimization of wet manufacturing processes.

Peter has more than 40 years of surface finishing and allied industry experience, including hundreds of design, design-build, pollution prevention, and alternative technology projects with aerospace, defense, MRO, automotive, electronics, and general metal finishing applications and clients. Peter is an experienced trainer of management, technical, and production staff in surface finishing, environmental technologies, and Best Management Practices. He is also an experienced facilitator and leads workshops focused on process improvement and control, risk reduction, asset management, conceptual engineering, and master planning.

Peter has authored numerous publications, including two capsule reports for US EPA, Approaching Zero Discharge in Surface Finishing and Managing Cyanide in Metal Finishing. He co-authored a chapter on metal finishing for the Pollution Prevention Handbook, edited by Thomas Higgins. He also co-authored an AESF Course on Pollution Prevention and an AESF workshop on Water Quality Management in Surface Finishing. He is a Certified AESF Foundation Instructor. He was Chairman and Co-Organizer of the Annual AESF/EPA Conference on Environmental and Process Excellence for 10 years, and he was Technical Conference Chairman for SUR/FIN for seven years. He is past Chairman of the National Association for Metal Finishing (NASF) Technology Advisory Committee, a past member of the NASF Board of Directors, and Past President of AESF, and he has served on numerous other committees. Peter is currently an active member of NASF and the AESF Foundation. He received his BS from Purdue University.