Mohsin Bin Latheef Program Manager (Ecosystem Development) Shyam holds a Masters in Materials Engineering from the University of Missouri, a Bachelors in Metallurgical Engineering from National Institute of Technology (NIT) Nagpur, India and advanced energy policy studies from the University Of California. He was also a materials research engineer at Acumentrics Corporation and Fuel Cell Energy, fuel cell technology based energy businesses in Boston, Massachusetts and Danbury, Connecticut from 2001-2004. As part of the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) at the World Bank (2005-2007) in Washington DC, he worked on Carbon Finance methodology development and techno-economic analysis of energy use in India and China and as a member of the China Energy Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California (2004-2005), he addressed topics around low carbon technology penetration in the transportation sector in China. At Conduit Ventures, Shyam evaluated and invested in startups operating in the areas of energy efficiency, energy storage and emissions control across Europe. Shyam has over a dozen years' experience in the energy sector including investment management roles at Conduit Ventures, a corporate backed early stage energy venture capital fund in London and Nadathur Holdings, a family investment office in Singapore. He was a member of the Indian Prime Minister\'s High-Level Committee (also known as Sachar Committee) to write a report on the Social, Economic and Educational Conditions of Muslims in India. He has also worked as a consultant to several international organizations. He is a recipient of the of the Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Economics and has spent two years at the Economic Growth Center, Yale University, USA as a Visiting Research Fellow. Sectoral focus of research has been on Pharmaceutical, IT, Electronics and Auto-component industries. Recent work has focused on competition policy, inter-organizational linkages for technology development (especially academia-industry relationships), strategic and policy aspects of intellectual property rights, linkages between public policy and technological change, industrial clusters, economics of strategy and the small scale sector in India. His current teaching and research interests focus on public policy & regulation. Rakesh is the Chairperson at Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) and is a faculty in the economics area at IIM Ahmedabad. We back our entrepreneurs with a unique ecosystem of relationships and partners, offering advantaged access to expertise, market channels and potential partners. We believe that access to the right relationships at the right time is key to rapidly building and scaling a new business. We think there is a big opportunity to figure out novel ways to deploy these solutions at scale, leveraging new innovations in technology, financing, design and marketing. We believe there are already many proven and good solutions that are yet to reach the market. We are generally the first institutional investor and are happy to work with entrepreneurs even at the idea-stage, and create a new business together. We engage with ventures at the seed and early stage - where our knowledge, networks and funds can add significant value. We focus on cleantech and sustainability. We provide entrepreneurs with hands-on business and mentoring support, a world-class ecosystem of Indian and global partners, and seed & early-stage capital.
Housed at IIM Ahmedabad's Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE), we partner with exceptional entrepreneurial teams in India to help create, build and scale new cleantech business.
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