Ather Energy CEO and leadership

Finance Leader with exposure to large multi-location and transnational revenues

- Demonstrated acumen in conceptualizing, leading and executing business growth strategies

- International experience and leading and working with multi cultural teams

- Established, implemented and monitored financial procedures, controls & MIS

- Adept at asset and working capital management to deliver enhanced return on capital

- Successful track record in maintaining and finalisation of accounts

- Strong skill set in internal audit, risk management, outsourced vendor management

- Developing and training motivated teams making them ready for tomorrow

Pawan Singhal is a General Counsel at 3M India, Chief Legal Officer at Ather Energy, and General Counsel at Embassy Office Parks REIT and is based in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. He has worked as VP:Legal/Secretary at AstraZeneca Pharma India, Vice President-Legal at ASTRAZENECA PLC, and Legal Counsel- South Asia at Intel Corporation. Pawan works or has worked at Editor and Business. He studied at The Shri Ram College of Commerce SRCC between 1980 and 1983, The Institute of Company Secretaries of India between 1987 and 1989, and DAV Public School New Delhi.

Sunitha comes with more than 20 years of experience in core HR functions. Sunitha was Senior Vice President & Global Head for Talent Management and HR Head for ITO Core, Service Desk, BPO and Corporate Support at MphasiS, an HP Company. She also worked as HR Head for captive IT Development Centres of AIG, JB Software, Societe Generale and also for Talentpro.

Ravneet Phokela is a Chief Business Officer at Ather Energy and is based in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. She has worked as Global Marketing Director, Product Marketing at Nokia; Senior Brand Services Director at Mullen Lowe Group; and General Manager, Marketing at Whirlpool. Ravneet studied at Institute of Management Technology Ghaziabad between 1991 and 1993, DQ Entertainment between 2008 and 2008, and FRANK ANTHONY PUBLIC SCHOOL THE between 1972 and 1986.

The flagbearer of our Zero Compromise & Clean design philosophy, he leads the product design and development functions while raising a dog.

Saurabh Srivastava is one of India’s leading entrepreneurs, investors and institution builders. He has worked extensively in the US, UK, Singapore and India. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has presented him an award for contribution to the Indian IT Industry and the President of India has awarded him the Padma Shri.

He co-founded and Chaired key institutions of modern India focussed on IT and entrepreneurship: NASSCOM, Indian Venture Capital Association; TiE; Indian Angel Network, world’s largest angel investor group with over 100 portfolio companies, 470 investor members globally.

His public service commitments: National Innovation Council, PM’s Empowered Committee on Excellence in Public Administration, SEBI Committee on VC/PE Funds, Indian Government’s Fund of Funds’ Investment Committee, Bombay Stock Exchange Hi-Tech Advisory Panel, Railway Expert Committee, Incubation and Technology Entrepreneurship and many more.

After a successful stint in the US and India with IBM and Unisys, he turned to entrepreneurship and founded several successful IT companies, one ranked amongst the top 20 Indian software companies. He created India’s first and highly successful private sector VC Fund, which created IndiaBulls and Avendus. He’s invested in 100 plus start-ups and mentored hundreds of entrepreneurs.

He is a co-founder of Ashoka University, served on the Advisory Board of Imperial College Business School, London and was adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at IIT Mumbai. He has a Masters from Harvard University, a B Tech from IIT Kanpur. Awards include “Distinguished Alumnus Award” from IIT, the DataQuest Lifetime Achievement Award for IT, Patrick J McGovern Lifetime Achievement Award for Entrepreneurship and an Honorary Doctorate in Technology from the University of Wolverhampton, UK