Priyanka Bakaya advises and builds companies commercializing technologies in energy, industrials, and critical materials. She has been recognized on the Forbes 30 under 30 List, the Fortune 40 Under 40: Ones to Watch List, Conscious Company's Top 30 Social Entrepreneurs List, is a Cartier Women's Initiative Award Laureate, and is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. She is a graduate of MIT Sloan and Stanford University with Honors and has completed Executive Education at Harvard's Kennedy School and Princeton's Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment.

Bakaya currently serves as an advisor on Technology to Market Commercialization to the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E). She began her career in finance and venture capital and currently serves on the Impact Committee of the Circular Innovation Fund, as well as in advisory roles with Collaborative Fund and Yale Ventures. A former founder, she brings extensive operator experience and has supported MIT Bootcamps for several years. She has also been a keynote speaker and panelist at global conferences across six continents, including Fortune Brainstorm Green, Sustainable Brands, the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, and TEDx.