Team
Narasimhan Santhanam - Co-founder & Director, EAI .png)
BTech IITM, PGDM IIM-C, 25 years experience in marketing, strategy, top management, 12 years in the cleantech industry, 10 years in solar power business consulting. Worked across India and the UK.
- Has authored 25+ reports for the renewable energy & cleantech sectors, provided detailed consulting assistance to over 200 companies (including the likes of World Bank, ExxonMobil, GE, GSK, Sterlite, JSW, Bosch. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) and assisted global leaders such as UL in gaining a better understanding of fundamental issues affecting markets and business strategy.
- His work and research has provided assistance to diverse national & international stakeholders - the Indian government (MNRE & International Solar Association), NITI Aayog & Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Telangana & UP state governments, and governments of Italy, Mexico, Canada, UK & USA.
- Since 2010, he has been an invited speaker & moderator at over 40 events related to cleantech in India, USA, Singapore & Italy. In addition, with his team, he has also organized key industry events and conferences in India that have engaged over 1000 Indian and international industry stakeholders & experts across the entire value chain - all these giving him an exceptional contact network along the entire cleantech value chain.
Manohar Namasivayam - Co-founder & Director, EAI
BTech, AC Tech, Chennai, PGDM IIM-C, 40 years experience in business development, advertising marketing & communications and as an Internet entrepreneur. 12 years in the cleantech industry as an advisor to clients on business growth strategy and creative ideation.
Manohar has been instrumental in providing the creative edge to many of the consulting projects EAI has undertaken. His advertising, communications & entrepreneur backgrounds provide the knowledge and acumen needed to come up with powerful differentiation strategies for new market entrants
Madhavan Nampoothiri - Consulting Partner, EAI
Madhavan has vast experience in climate tech consulting, climate finance and as an advisor to the top management of Indian climate tech firms.
He assists the EAI consulting team as a partner consultant for select assignments.
Aishwarya A - Management Trainee - Marketing, EAI
Aishwarya assists the EAI in its online marketing efforts.
Aishwarya Arun Kumar - Management Trainee - Research, EAI
Aishwarya Arun works with the consulting team and supports them in sustainable energy industry research and in coordinating interactions for the consulting assignments.
Muthukrishnan Nagasubramanian - Senior Manager - Business Research & Finance
Even though Muthu joined EAI to oversee finance & administration, he has evolved to also provide support to diverse business research that we undertake in cleantech. Since 2017, Muthu has provided research & admin support to EAI in hosting renewable energy events, publishing industry reports and implementing some of our unique online platforms for cleantech.
Subakar - Senior Software Engineer
B.E. in Computer Science from Anna University. Subakar has been with EAI since 2017 and he has been responsible for implementing many of our web and online resources and platforms. Subakar is adept at both database applications and web applications.
Arunesh Kumar - Head - Design
Arunesh, who had a background in web, HTML design & graphics, assists EAI and its divisions in all the front end design support we require for our web sites, reports and events.