Leadership
Pawan Mehra |
Upendra Bhatt |
Jayant Prasad |
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Pawan Mehra has been involved in building and scaling several ventures. He is a leader who leverages innovation to create capital efficiency. He has been a venture capital investor in his early career and since then has been engaged in creating mission-driven businesses. Pawan helps architect cKinetics’ programmatic engagements in the fields of clean energy, closed-loop systems and sustainable production. He also leads the design and roll out of newer products and initiatives within the firm. He serves in an advisory capacity to a number of industry working groups and has helped develop newer tools as well as frameworks that have been adopted by the industry (such as a registry for carbon-energy benchmarks, Value Added Water framework, among others). Pawan also continues to connect Sustainability principles with finance and works with several investor groups. In the past he has served on the guidelines drafting committee for Responsible Banking, has been on the advisory board of the Impact Investing Policy Collaborative, and was on the founding board of the Global Impact Investing Network. Pawan has a Bachelors Degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering and a Master of Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He has also spent time at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business in their International Management program. Pawan enjoys long-distance running and meeting real-world heroes. His most precious moments are spent re-learning the finer truths of life from his children. |
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Upendra Bhatt (usually called UB) is a ‘Go-to-market’ and techno-commercial specialist with expertise in technology evaluation & linkages. He has been closely associated with developing infrastructure projects in South Asia and has worked on shaping innovative market driven models for mainstreaming of technology and service interventions in the developing markets. Upendra chairs the Sustainable Business Leadership Forum, an Industry practitioners group focused on resource sustainability and ESG issues through multi-stakeholder working groups. He also serves as the Vice Chair of Alliance for Energy Efficient Economy (AEEE) and is a member of several task forces constituted by industry bodies. He is a frequent speaker at global industry events and adviser to several multi-lateral agencies. In the past, Upendra has been an early stage investor and co-founder of a development consultancy firm and has also been instrumental in establishing and ramping up the international operations for an Indo-US telecom services firm through its acquisition of a NASDAQ listed firm. He has also held project management roles at Fortune 500 companies, Itochu Corporation and Skanska AB. Upendra Bhatt has a Masters in International Relations from Thunderbird – The American Graduate School of International Management, a Master of Business Administration from NMIMS-Mumbai, (India) and an Engineering Degree from Delhi College of Engineering (India). |
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Jayant Prasad is a consummate finance specialist who has built and launched financial products, managed operations at scale and created high quality financial assets (high return and low credit / operating costs). As a cKinetics partner, he co-founded and launched cKers Finance, a Non Banking Finance Company (NBFC) in India that was incubated by cKinetics. cKers Finance pioneers financing for climate finance start-ups and electric vehicles. The venture operates across India and has built a formidable presence in several market segments. In the past, Jayant spent 17 years at ICICI Bank. He was involved in several divisions: across microfinance and financial inclusion group, corporate banking, international operations, and technology-driven product innovation. . Jayant has a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering and a Master of Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. |
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