As an atypical engineer who combines a highly technical background with business acumen and strong communication skills, Ellen Williams has defined herself as a "technical storyteller." She is currently the EVP of Business Development for Exum Instruments, a Denver-based startup developing a new scientific instrument for materials scientists and engineers. For Exum, Ellen strategically leads marketing, product management, and sales enablement. Prior to joining Exum, she spent a decade in various technical and project management roles in the energy industry.

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Manjula Bagli is the Public Funding Manager-Americas at Technip Energies, Inc, USA. She provides stakeholder engagement and government funding analysis and pursuit support to T.EN business teams. She is currently focused on funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Prior to Technip Energies, she helped Bloom Energy map and harness funding from the IIJA and IRA, including leading RFP/RFI responses.

During her 10+ years at Development Finance International Inc (www.DFIntl.com), Manjula set up their Clean Energy Practice and delivered market growth, stakeholder engagement, and increased adoption of clean technologies for her clients. She helped her clients design and execute programs resulting in multimillion-dollar energy transition and renewable energy projects in emerging markets.

Manjula started her career as an analyst in the financial services sector in India. She has spent 15 + years living, traveling and working in Asia, Africa India, and about 12 years working in USA. Manjula recently located to California from the Midwest. She is excited to be one of the founding committee members at WEN California and this year’s programming chair (NorCal).