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Bloom Energy appoints Simon Edwards as Chief Financial Officer.

What happened

Bloom Energy hired Edwards as Chief Financial Officer on Mar 1st '26.

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Bloom Energy appoints Simon Edwards as Chief Financial Officer. SAN JOSE, Calif.-(BUSINESS WIRE)-Bloom Energy (NYSE: BE), a global leader in onsite power solutions, today announced the appointment of Simon Edwards as Chief Financial Officer, effective April 13, 2026. A seasoned finance executive with nearly two decades of experience scaling technology companies, Edwards brings a rare combination of operational rigor, systems leadership, and deep exposure to digital infrastructure that aligns with Bloom's strength, market focus and strategy - to be a solution for power availability as it becomes the defining constraint on the AI industry and its growth. Edwards joins Bloom from AI-inference leader Groq, where he most recently served as CEO after initially joining as CFO. At Groq, he led the global financial operations and guided the company through a period of rapid expansion, infrastructure build-out, and its recent licensing agreement with Nvidia. His prior leadership roles include CFO positions at Conga and ServiceMax, two leading SaaS businesses, where he led finance, corporate development, and revenue operations teams through phases of transformational growth and sustained margin expansion. Earlier in his career, Edwards held senior financial roles at GE, including CFO of GE Digital and as an executive in the company's Corporate Audit Staff, giving him strong grounding...

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Event
Executive hire

What this signalsA new leader often reviews the tools the team uses.

Person
EdwardsChief Financial Officer
Takes effect
Mar 1, 2026

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People

  • EdwardsChief Financial Officer · Named in the story

Details

Category
Hires

Topics and mentions

Job title tags

  • finance

Extraction

Confidence
70%
Detected
Mar 26, 2026
signal_type
news
signal_subtype
hires

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