Prateek Bumb

Prateek Bumb is an entrepreneur, engineer and investor and his key focus areas are to reduce global warming through sustainable energy production and provide accessible clean technology for future energy security.

With a Bachelor’s and a Master’s in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, Prateek co-founded Carbon Clean in 2009 and is responsible for the overall technology and operational strategy of the company. Prateek was instrumental in establishing its global R&D ecosystem across the UK, India, USA and Europe on clean technology innovation. He is the principal innovator of a breakthrough technology to capture carbon dioxide from industrial gases. His expertise involves innovation and implementation of CO2 capture technology from idea to commercial stage. To date, he has multiple international patents for the CO2 capture technology and has published papers at several international conferences and in journals on carbon capture and storage technology.

Selected for the Young Alumni Achiever Award (YAAA) in 2019, IIT Kharagpur and National Mission Innovation Champion by the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India. He also featured in Indian Innovators: 20 Brilliant Thinkers Who are Changing India in 2015.