Distinguished Mechanical Engineer
BS PHY, Texas A&M University, 1991
MSME, University of Texas at Austin, 1993
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1997
Bunker Hill is an engineering executive leading the development of transformative energy infrastructure at Quidnet Energy. Since joining Quidnet Energy in 2021 as the Vice President of Engineering, he has played a key role in developing the world’s first geomechanical battery, a novel long-duration energy system that stores energy underground as high-pressure water. This first-of-a-kind system holds hundreds of megawatt-hours of energy over any length of time with no self-discharge.
Prior to joining Quidnet Energy, Bunker spent over two decades at Schlumberger (SLB), the world’s largest oilfield services company. He held a progression of global leadership roles with responsibilities spanning multiple technologies, including the design, testing, manufacturing, and simulation of electromechanical and electrohydraulic systems for the most severe pressure and temperature conditions on the planet. His favorite accomplishments at SLB are the many new products that he and his teams transformed from ideas into commercial realities.
Bunker earned his undergraduate degree in Physics from Texas A&M University while working as a research assistant at the Cyclotron Institute. He then moved to Austin to join the Robotics Research Group at The University of Texas at Austin, where he completed his Masters and Doctor of Philosophy in 1997.
For fun, Bunker enjoys pushing himself to, and sometimes beyond, his mental and physical limits. He was chosen to represent the United States at a world cup shooting event in Russia in 1986, and still enjoys trap, skeet, and sporting clays. He began training martial arts with his son in 2009 and is now a competitive Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu athlete. Bunker and his wife, Jennette, met in 2019 and were married in 2023. Together they have one son (Hayden) and three daughters (Cameron, Jordan, and Abigail). They live in Sugar Land, TX, with their four dogs: Lucy Maggie, Fred, and Abraham.
