Bibake Uppal leads KF America, Kyoto Fusioneering’s Seattle-based U.S. arm, where he drives strategic partnerships, business development and investor relations across North America. Under his leadership, KF entered a novel public-private joint venture, expanded its U.S. sales pipeline, secured cooperative-research grants from the U.S. Department of Energy and attracted equity capital from American investors.

Before KF, Bibake led multinational teams advising large-cap clients in Energy, Resources & Industrials and Food & Agriculture on M&A strategy and post-merger integration at Deloitte Consulting, and served as a corporate-communications strategist for a Canadian Crown corporation. Prior to that, he was an NCAA and CFL athlete, and a forest firefighter.

He holds an MBA and M.S. in Business Analytics from IE Business School and a B.A. in Communications from Simon Fraser University.