Rick Puri

About Rick Puri

My name is Rick. As a seasoned Director of Partnerships & Business Development, I…

Experience

1. Director, Partnerships & Business Development, Hydrogen Energy & Mobility

   Air Liquide

   Jan 2023 — Present

   In my current role, I: • Aid in establishing and maintaining solid foundations for mid to long-term sustainable growth in hydrogen energy in North America by facilitating key partnership activities to utilize expanding market opportunities.• Find and unlock partnerships for customer enablement, such as a Mobility Coalition ecosystem concept, joint ventures, DOE hydrogen hubs, and other avenues of growth.• Pursue large-scale hydrogen offtake for heavy-duty Class 8 fleets, transit, mining, data centers, and aviation.• Collaborate with stakeholders across the value chain, including renewable energy producers, supply chain players, truck OEMs, national fuel retailers, and fleet operators, to prompt a revolution toward zero-emission transportation. • Oversee all aspects of business development, including opportunity recognition via proposal development, strategic negotiation with C-suite decision makers, arrangements for internal governance process, contract signature, and liaising among key stakeholders.• Created a regional business strategy for offtake to drive near term and long term growth targets and support large-scale production investments.• Champion the development of a Mobility Coalition ecosystem concept, including partnership with a national fuel retailer and leading truck OEMs to facilitate a value-added integrated mobility offer to heavy-duty trucking fleets while addressing critical pain points and overall TCO. • Seek applicable state and federal funding opportunities to enhance project economics.• Organized a community benefits workshop, with the aim to address differential pollution burdens with zero-emission vehicle solutions and facilitate meaningful two-way community interaction during project development concerning DEIA, Justice40, and workforce development.• Develop commercial structures to create and implement scalable solutions that benefit Air Liquide and its valued partners.

Education

• University of Minnesota

  Bachelor's, Mechanical Engineering

  2000 — 2005

Skills

• Process Improvement
• Operations Management
• Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Manufacturing
• Business Process Improvement
• Project Planning
• Excel
• Account Management
• New Business Development
• Management
• Strategic Planning
• Autocad
• Microsoft Office
• Hvac
• Sales
• Sales Management
• Powerpoint
• Project Management