About Vish Palekar

Vish Palekar serves as the Global Head IOT Partners, Energy and Utilities at Amazon Web Services (AWS) where he is responsible for revenue and acceleration of the AWS IOT Partner ecosystem.  Vish has spent over 25 years leading businesses and holding functional leadership roles in global industrial companies in the U.S. and India.

Prior to the role at AWS, Vish Palekar was Vice President responsible for the global partner ecosystem at Bloom Energy and led the electric mobility business Mahindra GenZe both in the Bay Area.  He championed the growth of solar and distributed power by incubating and leading Mahindra’s solar business and the India P&L of the automation business GE Enterprise Solutions.  He also led the global operations of GE Water and held various commercial and engineering leadership roles in GE Transportation and Cummins Engine Co.  

Vish is passionate about sustainable energy and has helped scale and finance various Clean Energy initiatives around the world. He is a Mentor/Advisor at the TomKat Institute of Sustainable Energy at Stanford and holds an MBA and a PhD in Engineering with executive education at Harvard and Yale.  As a Board member of Power for All, Vish is keen to see the promise of clean energy translate into accessible healthy outcomes, jobs, and systemic transformation. Shine On!