Our team
Dr Pankaj Agarwal
Chief Executive Officer
Cleantech expert, entrepreneur, and investor and experience in financing, business development and commercialization of new technologies in the renewable energy sector.
Dr Rainer Kern
Chief Operating Officer
Experience in a variety of innovative and fast-growing industry sectors including automotive electrification, battery technology, components for the electrified powertrain, photovoltaics, & electrochemical systems.
Florian Kind
Chief Technology Officer
Technical expert in the area of energy and electrical en-gineering with a focus on sustainable technologies. He has experience in project and process management, particularly in high-tech SMEs.
Rupert Strachwitz
Chief Financial Officer
CEO of Velocity Credit Ventures as well as director of an SME trade finance technology company. Co-founded an Indian renew-able energy business, listed on the London Stock Ex-change AIM.
Ajay Goel
Director Panitek Smart Energy
Seasoned professional with 30+ years in automotive and LED exports, IoT-based smart lighting, and infrastructure consulting. Expertise in innovative, energy-efficient solutions for global markets and smart city projects.
Shalabh Agarwal
AVP Panitek Smart Energy
Over 17 years work experience in business development, sales and marketing functions in Smart Lighting, Heat pumps, Geothermal energy business.B.E in Electronics and Com-munication Engineering, MBA from ICFAI Business School.
Arvind Sastry
AVP Strategic Partnerships
Worked on utility scale solar PV plants within proposals and projects management. Experience includes working on off-grid solar plants on remote island resorts in Sri Lanka, Maldives and East Africa.
Rebecca Haug
AVP Marketing & PR
Marketing and communications professional with over 20 years of experience in diverse settings, including leading marketing agencies, corporate and govern-mental environments. Proven ability to collaborate effectively across global settings.
Rajeev Bhatt
Senior Manager- Grid Digitisation
Over 13 years’ experience in Network Planning & Opera-tions , O&M at Power Distribu-tion business with BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd, New Delhi and CESCMalegaon Power Supply Co. B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from Integral University, Lucknow.
Rajan Yadav
Senior Engineer- Grid Digitisation
5 years work experience in Ener-gy meter testing, Services and telecommunication networking at Secure Meters Ltd, Genus Power Infrastructures Ltd.B.Tech in Electrical Engineer-ing, MD University.
Niti Garg
Office Manager
Chartered accountant by pro-fession and partner in A. Vijay Kumar & Company having branches across India. Practic-ing since 2008 from Kolkata and specialized in the field of audit and assurance, manage-ment advisory and internation-al taxation.
Aman Sisodiya
Business Development Manager
Electrical engineer with extensive experience in enhancing revenue and reducing AT&C losses through network improvements. Holds a B.Tech from Dayal Bagh Educational Institute and a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management from MDI Gurgaon.
Our board of directors
Dr Pankaj Agarwal
Serial entrepreneur, success-fully incubated, scaled and exited businesses including an IPO on the London Stock Exchange.
Cleantech expert, with over 30 years’ experience in multiple renewable energy sectors.
Graduate of IIT Kanpur, and PhD University of Florida, MBA Rotterdam School.
Dr Nicole Zech-Agarwal
Over 20 years’ experience in intellectual property with expertise in physics, chemistry and mechanics.
Patent attorney at Swisspat RiedererHasler and previously patent examiner at the Europ-ean Patent Office.
PhD in Material Science from EPF, Lausanne and Masters in Material Science from ETH, Zurich.
Martin Wittwer
Professional board member, investor and consultant based in Zürich.
15 years’ experience in cross-border transactions with India in technology and agriculture industries.
MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago and a Licentiate in Economics from the University of St. Gallen HSG.
Christoph Ospelt
Founder of Lenum, an energy consulting firm in Vaduz focus-ed on sustainable buildings, energy and environment.
Former member of the Liechtenstein Energy Commis-sion.
Diploma in Natural Sciences from ETH, Zurich and MSc. from MIT, USA.
Our advisors
Peter Tschütscher
Over 25 years of experience in the international financial services industry.
Works at KGAL, a European Pioneer in Renewable Energy Infrastructure Investments where he is responsible for Institutional Client Business.
Prior to joining KGAL, Peter worked for 20 years at Barclays Bank Plc in London where he held senior positions within the European Institutional Distribution Business.
Akshay Jaitly
Advisor to Indian, French and other international clients on cross-border strategy and risk management.
Co-founded Trilegal, a leading Indian law firm and was rated as one of India’s top energy and Infrastructure lawyers.
Masters in international affairs from Columbia University and a law degree from Oxford University.
Dr Otto C. Frommelt
Qualified expert in strategy development, scenario plan-ning and foresight.
Director of the National Road Office, Principality of Liechten-stein and previously held senior executive and board positions within the Volvo group.
Doctorate from the Notting-ham University Business School.
Sanjeev Varma
Chairman, Panitek Smart Energy.
Extensive experience as a senior corporate executive in the automotive industry. Senior advisor at Lincoln International and previously at ChaninCapital Partners, Duff & Phelps Securities and Magna Group.
Executive MBA from Wharton Business School, MS from Syracuse University and B. Tech from IIT Kanpur.
Rakesh Singhania
Angel investor and mentor, active in the start-up eco system in India.
Previously, CFO of Wells Fargo India.
ACA from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
Pankaj Batra
A thought leader in the power industry in India.
Previously, Chairperson and CEO of the Central Electricity Authority of India.
BTech from IIT, Varanasi, India
Dr Deepika Singh
Entrepreneur with expertise in semiconductor and battery materials. Co-founded successfully exited Sinmat, Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP) technology company in the US
Dr Joerg Petrasch
Entrepreneur and academic with expertise in renewable energy technologies, energy storage, and process engineering with a strong focus on thermal and chemical processes. Co-founder of Redoxblox Inc. a thermal storage technology company in the US and Austria
Dinesh Dhamija
Entrepreneur, politician and investor and one of the UK’s leading international businessmen and a former Entrepreneur of the Year.
Founder and chairman of Copper Beech Group that manages investments in sustainable projects in Europe and India. Founder of ebookers.com, the first internet travel company in the UK and Europe which he successfully exited
Rajneesh Agarwal
Entrepreneur and investor with expertise in engine design and development of agriculture and mechanical systems. Mentor and head business strategy at HAV an hybrid agricultural vehicle startup. Previously CEO, Agri Implements and Engine Business, Escorts Limited, India.