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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-24-033001"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BE"
cik: "0001664703"
company_name: "Bloom Energy Corp"
filed_at: "2024-07-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T16:19:00.443204+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Bloom Energy appoints former Chevron VP Barbara Burger to board

## Summary
- Board expanded from 8 to 9 directors; Burger named Class II director effective Aug 1, 2024.
- Burger was VP Innovation at Chevron and President of Chevron Technology Ventures until 2022.
- She receives standard non-employee director comp, including ~$350k initial equity award vesting over 3 years.
- Burger will serve on Nominating, Governance, and Public Policy Committee.
- CEO Sridhar highlights her expertise in carbon capture and energy transition as valuable to Bloom's SOFC platform.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-24-033001
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BE
- cik: 0001664703
- company_name: Bloom Energy Corp
- filed_at: 2024-07-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1664703/000162828024033001/0001628280-24-033001-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1664703/000162828024033001/be-20240724.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-24-033001
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-24-033001.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-24-033001.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Barbara Burger was appointed as Class II Director at Bloom Energy Corp.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Class II Director
  source text: Dr. Barbara Burger was appointed to serve as a Class II director of Bloom Energy effective August 1, 2024 to hold office until the 2026 annual meeting of stockholders and until her successor shall have been duly elected and qualified.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1664703/000162828024033001/0001628280-24-033001-index.htm

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