Upendra Bhatt

UB is a ‘Go-to-market’ and techno-commercial specialist with expertise in technology evaluation & linkages. He has been closely associated with the conventional and renewable energy generation and infrastructure domain in South Asia and has worked on shaping innovative market based models for mainstreaming of technology and service interventions in the developing markets. Upendra has been involved in building and scaling early-stage ventures – he has been a co-founder of Intellecap, a micro-finance consultancy firm and has also been instrumental in establishing and ramping up the international operations for XIUS, an Indo-US telecom services firm through its acquisition of a NASDAQ listed firm. In the early years of his career, UB held a multitude of sales, corporate development, strategic planning, and hands-on project management roles at Fortune 500 companies, Itochu Corporation and Skanska AB. UB 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). He is an avid traveler and explorer of new cultures and his passion is social institution building and public affairs. Specialties: Functional focus on Go-To-Market planning and sustainability interventions in businesses operations. Carbon abatement, Smart Infrastructure, market based solutions, Waste to Energy, Off-grid rural electrification