Bloom Energy

Biography:

Carl Cottuli holds the role of Head of Development Engineering at Bloom Energy and has the responsibility of setting standards and driving global product development using fuel cell-based technology for application in the electrical and hydrogen environments.

Carl has over twenty-five years of experience in managing global technical teams engaged in governmental, industrial, and enterprise opportunity engagement. His expertise includes electrical and mechanical product and system design as well as installation for service industries.

While holding senior leadership positions at market-leading corporations he has been advising on corporate strategy, organizational design, and product roadmaps by focusing his teams on the addressable markets for the various products. Carl’s educational background consists of an Electronic Engineering degree and continuing education in coursework focused on gaining direct knowledge as needed in various roles including project management, process development, and lean building. Carl has been granted over 40 technology patents for innovations in power, cooling, and fuel cell products.

Biography:

Debasmita Mukherjee is a Sr. Manager of Product Reliability Engineering at Bloom Energy and leads the product reliability team for Bloom Energy fuel cell and electrolyzer products. Her technical expertise in systems and reliability engineering and new product development has enabled Bloom Energy to develop reliable and sustainable customer energy solutions. Debasmita has 9+ years of experience in hardware product reliability engineering at Bloom Energy and Rivian specifically in the clean energy sector such as fuel cell-based power generation as well as electric vehicles in the sustainable transportation domain. She directed efforts on reliability testing of new fuel cell and electric vehicle equipment/features and drove reliability improvement redesigns. She has extensive experience in integrating system architecture, product design engineering, application engineering, manufacturing, marketing, sales and services efforts. Debasmita’s leadership skills are in the area of microgrid reliability, stand-alone power generation reliability, statistical reliability data analysis, design for reliability, reliability testing, and failure analysis. Debasmita received her BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India and MS degree in Chemical Engineering from San Jose State University, California, US. Debasmita has been involved in designing reliable system architectures for datacenters and microgrid applications at Bloom Energy over past several years. She has been an IEEE member for the last two years.