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At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top India based CEO’ operating in the Electric Vehicle space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Amit Gupta
Co-Founder and CEO of Yulu
Amit Gupta completed his undergraduate studies from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in Mechanical Engineering in the year 2000. Growing usage of mobile phones in the developing markets inspired Amit to co-found InMobi in 2007. Amit aspires for InMobi to be one of the most successful internet product companies across the global emerging out of India. Amit heads InMobi’s Revenue and Operations and responsible for taking company to a sustainable profitability mark. He has played an instrumental role in expanding InMobi’s footprint to multiple markets across 5 continents. Amit has been a serial entrepreneur, prior to InMobi, Amit founded Analyticsworks, a company that offered a platform for business intelligence. His professional experience include hot start ups like Andale where worked directly with the CEO to help initiate new areas of revenues for the company, Aditi that gave him hands on experience on building software and a large multinational bank Citigroup where he helped to start scalable business intelligence unit for their consumer finance business. Amit is passionate about entrepreneurship. He has been helping several young entrepreneurs by advising them on every aspect of running a start up. He has received a highly coveted Distinguish Alumni Award from his alma mater for his exceptional entrepreneurial achievements. Earlier in the year, InMobi was recognized by MIT Technology Review as one of the top 50 disruptive companies in the world for 2013.
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About Infiniti Research India, InMobi, Yulu: Yulu is a micro-mobility platform powered by shared electric two-wheelers aiming to reduce traffic congestion and air pollution in India.
Ravikiran Annaswamy
CEO and Managing Director of Numocity
Ravikiran Annaswamy is Founder and CEO of Innohabit Technologies. He is incubating various innovative products using analytics and deep learning. His current business focus is on bringing Electric Mobility to Indian market and has launched various technology products like Fulcharge.com in this space. He works closely with global programs like Founders Institute (Fi.Co) and Unreasonable Institute as Mentor and Coach for early stage startups. He is on the global team of IEEE 5G and is responsible for vision & strategy for future applications and services like Tactile/Haptic Internet, IOT, AR, VR Applications. He has over 23 years of business experience as Entrepreneur and as Business Leader at Nokia Siemens Networks and Siemens AG. He was Business Head for Indian market, led Global Product Management and was General Manager for BSS Solutions. He championed Intrapreneurship by working as Innovation head for Bangalore site of Nokia Siemens Networks. He has vast experience of launching successful technology solutions for global markets, mainly in the area of Analytics and Marketing automation, Online Billing and Charging, Innovative 3G/4G applications, Multimedia and Security Solutions. He is an engaged Professional volunteer, was the Chairman for IEEE Bangalore section (2014-2015), Industry Relations for IEEE – Asia Pacific (2014-15) and Secretary for IEEE Asia Pacific (2015-16). He is currently Editor in Chief for Leader Magazine for IEEE TEMS. He is a thought leader and speaker at various prestigious international business conferences. He has done his MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and has graduated from UVCE Bangalore.
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About Fulassure, Numocity, Woises – Product Management Simplified: Innovations at the intersection of Automobile, Electric Energy and Digital Technologies for Electric Mobility.
Suhas Rajkumar
Founder and CEO of Simple Energy
Suhas Rajkumar is the Founder and CEO of Simple Energy Pvt Ltd.
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About Simple Energy: Simple Energy specializes in manufacturing smart electric scooters.
Akash Gupta
Co-Founder & CEO of Zypp Electric
Akash Gupta is the Co-Founder of Mobycy, India’s first electric scooter sharing app. As a thought leader, team builder and startup specialist, Akash is responsible for building the nascent venture from ground-up. His vision for Mobycy is to see a greener & sustainable India. Completing his Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science, Akash went on to pursue his MBA from IMT Ghaziabad. Akash has been an avid speaker & has been featured by various media houses for his startup marketing skills. Before founding the innovative Green Tech venture, Akash was associated with MobiKwik as Vice President & Head of Marketing. Leading from the front, Akash managed both, online and offline marketing initiatives of MobiKwik, and was instrumental in placing Mobikwik amongst the leading payment tools in India and beyond, while keeping ROI and efficiency as the core of Marketing-led growth. During his stint MobiKwik grew from 25 million users to 65 million users along with great growth in revenue & business all across the board. Previously, Akash has also executed mobile marketing for Snapdeal and led the 4G launch for Airtel. Akash loves watching movies & finishing IMDB Top 250 is on his hit list. He is an avid traveller & loves traveling with his wife & friends. He thinks that travelling gives a lot of worldly perspective & helps growing an individual from within. Some of his other interests include writing & giving motivational talks. Akash has a penchant for fitness & his new startup wants to make every Indian a fitter individual.
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About Zypp Electric: Zypp Electric is on a mission to making all last mile deliveries go electric and hence reduce cost & make logistics pollution free.
Anmol Jaggi
Founder & CEO of BluSmart Mobility
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About BluSmart Mobility, Ezysolare: BluSmart is a zero-emission ridehailing service and ev fast charging network.
Narayan Subramaniam
Co-Founder, Head of Design and CEO of Ultraviolette Automotive
Narayan Subramaniam is the Co-Founder, CEO, and Head of Design at Ultraviolette Automotive.
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About Ultraviolette Automotive: Ultraviolette Automotive is a technology startup working on electric two-wheelers and energy infrastructure.
Siddharth Janghu
Co-Founder and CEO of kWh Bikes
Siddharth Janghu is the co-founder and CEO of kWh Bikes.
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About kWh Bikes: kWh Bikes provides electric two-wheelers for B2B use cases.
Gagandeep Reehal
Co-Founder, CEO & CTO of Minus Zero
Gagandeep Reehal is a deep-tech engineer, AI researcher, author and a technology entrepreneur, presently involved in multiple projects related to Applied Artificial Intelligence, Product Design and Inter-disciplinary Research specializing in domain of Cognitive & Human-centered AI, Autonomous Vehicles/Robotics and High Performance Computing Having just been 16 years old when he penned down his first book, he has been writing ever since. He already has three book publications to his credit, with numerous works having been appeared in various magazines and journals. He has mentored and judged 65+ developer/hacking events worldwide, spoken at leading conferences, and is currently building his startup ‘Minus Zero’ working on Self Driving Electric Cars in India.
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About Minus Zero: Building fully Self Driving Cars in India
Kapil Shelke
CEO & Founder of Tork Motorcycles
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About Tork Motorcycles: Tork Motorcycles develops and manufactures electric motorcycles.
Manesh Jain
Founder & CEO of Flo Mobility
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About Flo Mobility: Flo Mobility builds an autonomous technology for electric two-wheelers vehicles.
Ashok Agarwal
MD & CEO : Electric Mobility of GreenCell Mobility
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About GreenCell Mobility: GreenCell Mobility offers clean, cost-effective, and on-demand shared e-mobility solutions.
Saurav Kumar
CEO and Founder of Euler Motors
Saurav Kumar was co-founder and CEO of Cube26 (acq. by Paytm), an India based technology innovation firm focused on revolutionizing the user experience across multiple devices and platforms. He pursued his undergraduate in Computer Science from Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi University. After that, he joined INRIA, France, where he worked on the next generation of Driving Assistance Systems to mitigate roadside accidents. Later, he joined Cornell University’s Master’s program in Computer Science focusing on Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing.
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About Euler Motors: Euler Motors is a full-stack OEM that builds electric 3 and 4 wheelers that can be used for intra-city goods transportation.
Jenender Anand
Chief Executive Officer of Revolt Motors
Jenender Anand is the Chief Executive Officer at Revolt Motors.
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About Revolt Motors: Revolt Motors is an automotive company.
Vivek Sharanappa
Co-founder & CEO of buymyEV
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About buymyEV: Building all electric 2W clean, green & connected.
Nakul Kukar
Cofounder and CEO of Cell Propulsion
Nakul Kukar is the Cofounder and CEO at Cell Propulsion.
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About Cell Propulsion: Cell Propulsion is a fleet electrification company developing solutions for large scale electrification of commercial vehicle fleets.
Varun Mittal
CEO & Co-founder of Emflux Motors
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About Emflux Motors: Emflux Motors is committed to bring clean energy into a state of universal acceptance through in-house developed technological innovation.
Nikhilesh Mishra
Co-founder and CEO of Grinntech
Nikhilesh Mishra is the Co-founder and CEO at Grinntech.
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About Grinntech: Lithium Battery Packs for stationary and automotive application
Avinash Singh
Founder & CEO of DIYguru
Founder & CEO – DIYguru ► Maker’s Learning Platform ★ 2011 – Recipient of the Young Scientist Achiever Award at Indian Science Congress(Only 1 given in the entire North India) ★ 2012 – BAJA SAE Project Featured in CNN – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_moTxc6gkI ★ 2013 – #1 Best Student of the Year Award ( Extra Academic Activities) – KIIT University ★ 2014 – Appointed as Central Coordinator’s Head (KENFEST) – Tech Fest ★ 2015 – #1 Made KIITFEST Trending on Social Media at top position for 3 days consecutively. ★ 2016 – #1 Organised Mega ATV Championship attended by 3500 students from across India. http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/bhubaneswar/1st-atv-championship-in-city-from-march-4.html ★ Created 4 Mozilla Addons that amassed over 400,000 downloads to date. ★ Published author and his Automotive book “The Suspension Design” has over 40,000 kindle downloads and hit #1 in the BAJA category on Amazon.
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About DIYguru: DIYguru is India’s most prominent and leading Future Mobility upskilling platform accredited by AICTE, ASDC, Digital India Foundation .
Akshay Gupta
Co-Founder and CEO of Quixote
Akshay Gupta is the Co-Founder and CEO at Quixote.
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About Quixote: Quixote is an automotive tech start-up working in connected cars
Srujana Patnaik
Founder and CEO of Cellerite Systems
Srujana Raghupatruni Patnaik is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cellerite Systems.
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About Cellerite Systems: Cellerite Systems is a charging solutions provider for electric vehicles.
Peter Kelly
Chief Executive Officer of OPENLANE
Peter Kelly is President of KAR Digital Services and chief technology officer of KAR Auction Services, Inc. As chief technology officer, Kelly is responsible for defining and implementing best technology practices across all business units, identifying and offering insight on appropriate technology-related investments, and tracking technology standards, industry trends and emerging technologies. Prior to his current role, Kelly was co-founder, president and chief executive officer of OPENLANE, which KAR acquired in late 2011. At OPENLANE, Kelly led the company’s strategic direction from the early concept stage to becoming one of the leading online wholesale automotive auctions in North America. Prior to his work with OPENLANE, Kelly spent eight years managing engineering, construction and procurement projects for Taylor Woodrow, a U.K.-based construction and development firm. Kelly holds an engineering degree from University College Dublin and an MBA from Stanford University.
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About KAR Global, OPENLANE: OPENLANE is an online auction company in North America for automotive dealers to buy and sell wholesale vehicles.
Shubham Jain
Founder and CEO of TresMoto
Shubham Jain is the Founder and CEO at TresMoto.
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About TresMoto: Purpose built, connected, electric scooters for enterprise | Next gen vehicle ownership and after sales experience
Pratik Rane
CEO of Perfect Control Systems
Pratik Rane is the CEO of Perfect Control Systems
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About Perfect Control Systems: Dedicated to building a sustainable future for rural and urban communities through solar power and water management technologies.
