Darren Woulfe
Deep Tech Week · Speaker

Darren Woulfe

Commonwealth Fusion Systems
Head of Magnet Business, Commonwealth Fusion Systems
Applied PhysicsAdvanced MaterialsClimate TechEnergyNuclear & FusionPlasma Physics
01 About

Darren Woulfe is an American energy sector executive and engineer and the Head of Magnet Business at Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), an MIT spinout developing commercial fusion energy through high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets. He joined CFS in 2021 and oversees the magnet program for compact tokamaks like SPARC and ARC. Previously, Woulfe served as CFO at Makani, an Alphabet X moonshot for airborne wind energy, led procurement in solar firms like Sungevity and Recurrent Energy, and started his career as a process engineer at Intel. He holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.

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