KR Sridhar

Who is KR Sridhar?

KR Sridhar is the principal co-founder and CEO of Bloom Energy, KPCB's

first greentech investment. Bloom Energy develops a flexible fuel cell

system that produces clean, reliable and affordable energy from a wide

range of fuels. Bloom's technology enables consumers to generate their

own electricity for less than they pay their utility, and to reduce

their carbon emissions by 50-100% per kW depending on the fuel.Prior

to founding Bloom Energy, Dr. 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 Dr. 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.Dr.

Sridhar received his Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering with

Honors from the University of Madras, India, as well as his M.S. in

Nuclear Engineering and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.Dr. Sridhar 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.