Bill Farris
Bill Farris
Associate Laboratory Director for Innovation, Partnering, and Outreach | NREL
Bill Farris serves as the Associate Laboratory Director for Innovation, Partnering, and Outreach at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), an organization committed to advancing the science and engineering of energy efficiency, sustainable transportation, and renewable power technologies and providing the knowledge to integrate and optimize energy systems. He oversees all licensing, sponsored research agreements, enterprise development, and innovation management functions and has contracted with partners for research that has reached $1 billion in agreement value including Shell, ExxonMobil, Eaton, and Wells Fargo.
Farris holds a bachelor’s degree in geological sciences and a master’s in radiological sciences from the University of Washington and a master’s in management of technology from the National Technological University
