About AquaSmart™

AquaSmart™ Global About Us

AquaSmart™ Enterprises, LLC is a materials science company on a mission to provide engineered solutions to critical challenges. For example, we have maintained a focus on water, driving innovation to optimize its use in increasing production in Oil & Gas, extending the service life of Concrete, expanding crop yields in Agriculture, and growing lush turf and plants under watering restrictions for the Lawn & Garden industry. These are just a few examples of our research-driven approach and engineered solutions for critical material science challenges.

The heart of the AquaSmart™ suite of waterelated products is a patented polymer coating process with uses ranging from hydraulic fracturing sand (proppant) and concrete fine aggregates to turf grass and agricultural seeds.

Water has been around forever, but supplies are threatened by a growing global population and competition for resources. By helping customers use this critical resource better, AquaSmart™ is helping businesses succeed while making the world a better place.

Our Leadership

  • Calder Hendrickson
    Calder Hendrickson Chairman & CEO

    Calder has been the driving force behind AquaSmart™ and its relentless pursuit of profitable innovations since he founded the company in 2010. Drawing upon a lifetime of athletic competition, he takes a team-focused approach to challenges, building a unique leadership culture that encourages sensible risk-taking, hard work and personal accountability. Whether you recognize him from the Forbes Magazine’s Energy 30-Under-30 or towering over Bob Barker on the Million Dollar episode of the Price is Right, Calder is known for his keen intellect, warm personality and ability to get the deal done. He brings a scratch golfer’s focus to identifying the potential in diverse technologies, validating them with intensive research and bringing them to market. As a result, he has engineered and developed a series of allied proprietary products that are changing the game in a variety of markets ranging from oil & gas and concrete to lawn & garden and agriculture. When Lubbock Christian University named this former baseball player its Young Alumnus of the Year in 2017, Calder’s wife, Ceri, said “that’s nice, honey” then told him to keep an eye on their two kids.

    • Todd Naff
      Todd Naff Chief Commercial Officer

      Todd has been part of the AquaSmart™ leadership team since day one, bringing a lawyer’s analytical mind and an athlete’s competitiveness to the company’s everyday operations. Whether this native Texan is fine-tuning our manufacturing processes, tracking research programs or interacting with key suppliers, he maintains a steady hand on the AquaSmart™ tiller. His marketing degree from St. Edward’s University comes in handy when he’s overseeing all things customerelated, be it providing direct marketing and sales or providing technical support to marketing venues. He and his wife, Tessa, make their home in Lubbock where they enjoy listening to music and watching baseball (Todd was drafted by the San Diego Padres in 1997). She also lovingly helps him keep his golf habit under control.

      • Dr. Oliver Mulamba
        Dr. Oliver Mulamba Chief Technology Officer

        Dr. Mulamba’s Engineering expertise is enhanced by a remarkable depth of wisdom shaped by exposure to a variety of cultures and global issues from a young age. Oliver was born in Brussels, Belgium and his parents later made the decision to move back to their native Zaire. With disrepute and the genesis of war in Zaire, the family fled and landed in the middle of apartheididden South Africa. What should have been a pit stop on the way back to Europe, turned into a long adventure and partaking in the historical events that have shaped Southern Africa. Recognized for his academic and athletic ability, Oliver was offered a college soccer scholarship in America. He seized the opportunity and completed three Engineering degrees in efficient fashion, a BS from West Texas A&M University, an MS from Texas A&M University and a Ph.D. from Texas Tech University. He and his wife, Layne, are raising their family in a faith-centered home in Lubbock.