KR Sridhar

Prior to founding Bloom Energy, Sridhar led a team developing technologies to sustain life on Mars for NASA.  For his work, Fortune Magazine cited him as "one of the top five futurists that are inventing tomorrow today". Before this Sridhar was a professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering as well as Director of the renowned Space Technologies Laboratory (STL) at the University of Arizona.

Sridhar is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and has served on many technical committees, panels and boards. He has over fifty publications and is a sought-after speaker and advisor on energy and environmental issues. He is outspoken in his belief that the climate crisis we face is also a tremendous economic opportunity, that energy policy must be technology-neutral and performance-based, and that we can solve our current energy problems through a combination of technology, innovation and conservation