Management

Sanjeev Aggarwal, Managing Director & CEO

Sanjeev Aggarwal is the Founder & CEO of Amplus. He specialises in building businesses, project development, investment management and project finance in the energy sector. Prior to Amplus, Sanjeev led the business development team for AES Corporation in India. Sanjeev is trained as a mechanical engineer, with an MBA degree from IIM, Ahmedabad.

Guru Inder Mohan Singh, Chief Operating Officer

Guru Inder, the Founder & COO of Amplus Energy, has more than a decade of experience in new business origination, financing, contract negotiation, execution and management of renewable and conventional energy projects. He has previously worked with Azure Power, AES Corporation and Power Finance Corporation. Guru is an Electrical Engineer and an MBA from the IMT, India.

Anil Bhat , Senior VP Business Development - Rooftop

Anil has 25 years of diversified and successful experience across sales, business development, customer and alliances development. He has worked in the engineering sector for ten years marketing industrial products and then moved to selling of software products and services. He has built and led teams at Greaves, HCL, IBM, Oracle, and Dell Software. He also has experience of entrepreneurship. Anil is a Mechanical Engineer from National Institute of Technology, Bhopal and Masters in International Trade from IIFT, Delhi.

Dilip S Mehta, Senior VP – Projects Delivery

Dilip Mehta has 27 years of experience in Power Sector and Energy Sector and has worked in India, UK, USA and South Korea. He has vast experience in Engineering, Construction and Project Management functions of large gas based Combined Cycle Power Plants and Coal Fired Power Plants for BHEL, Reliance, Bechtel, AES and SK E&C. He has lead multi-disciplined engineering teams to design and engineer combined cycle power plants using latest state of the art engineering tools and software. Dilip holds a Bachelors and Master Degree in Civil Engineering from BITS, Pilani.

Ojasvi Gupta, Senior VP - Finance

Ojasvi has more than two decades of experience in of investment banking, merger & acquisition, contract negotiation and business development. He has previously worked with Druk Holding & Investments Limited (National holding company of Bhutan), Ostro Renewable, SBI Capital Markets and L&T. He is post graduate engineer in power plants from NIT Bhopal.

Sharad Pungalia, Senior VP Business Development – Open Access

Sharad, also a co-founder at Amplus Infrastructure Developers, come with over 10 years of experience in Indian electricity sector. He has previously been associated with companies like Infraco Asia, AES India and KSK energy ventures. Sharad has an undergraduate degree BCOM, MBA in finance and Diploma in Business finance.

Thomas Mathew, Senior VP Key Customers lead

Thomas Mathew has almost 30 years’ experience in energy, resources, infrastructure, M&A & fund raise. He has an experience of being a key resource for developing over 18000 MW of power generation capacity for NTPC. Previously, Thomas worked as Senior VP for Transcontinental Energy, a Boston based energy consulting firm & was solely responsible for launching Honeywell micro turbine in India and nine MENA countries. Thomas is an MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad.

Abhishek Goyal, VP - Capital and Risk Management

Abhishek has a rich experience of over 5 years in while working in various domestic and multi-national organizations. Abhishek has been instrumental and has played an active role in commercial negotiations and raising debt and equity financing for Amplus Solar. Prior to joining Amplus Solar, Abhishek was a part of the Wind team of AES Corporation. He has also been a part of organizations like Reliance Energy where he was in the BTG Design and Engineering team of Krishnapatnam Ultra Mega Power Project. Abhishek is a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh and holds an MBA(PGDM) from IIM Calcutta.

Birjendra Sangwaiya, Senior VP International Business

Birjendra Sangwaiya, VP Business Development at Amplus brings an experience of 15 years, spanning 8 years in business development, transaction & asset management advisory; 4 years in banking; 3 years in channel sales and marketing. He has widely travelled across Europe and South East Asia as well as rural heartlands in India and has brought multi-fold scale up to businesses. Prior to joining Amplus he has worked with Eicher Ltd, ICICI Bank and Emergent Ventures. He has delivered policy, finance & technology related advisory in the domain of Climate Change Mitigation. He has originated carbon credits for some of the most reputed names including governments, international banks, multilateral & energy funds and large European & Japanese utilities. He has facilitated millions of Euros of carbon credit transactions. He holds a BE in Civil Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering and a Masters in International Business from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi.

Mr Manohar B, Senior VP – PMO

Mr Manohar B, a senior Infra, Communication and Power, Oil and Gas and Entertainment Infra professional brings with him solid 3 decades of hands-on and senior level experience with best and brightest organizations in India. He brings expertise in Engineering combined with astute business acumen in entire gamut of activities i.e. Tendering, Bidding, choice of Technologies, Cost optimization, Project Planning, Control &Execution, Construction Management, Site Administration, Commercial aspects, Contract Administration, Resource Management and Liaison Work. Prior to joining Amplus, Manohar has worked as a strategic planner with cross-functional experience in conducting & coordinating project engineering activities, estimation & costing, resource management, tender evaluation and contract management with a flair for adopting modern construction methodologies in compliance to Quality standards. He holds a Bachelor of Technology (Civil) degree and Topper with Gold Medal from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Surathkal, Karnataka, India.

Ritu Lal, Senior VP & Head - Institutional Relations

Ritu has close to 20 years of rich and varied experience, primarily in the FMCG and Pharmaceutical sectors. Her past employers include GlaxoSmithKline and DSM. She has diverse geographical exposure – other than India, she has worked in Europe, and has also been responsible for the Asia-Pacific, Middle-East & Africa regions. She has worked extensively in Purchasing and Supply Chain, and has had substantial stints in Finance, HR, Facilities Management and Administration. Her cross-functional and cross-regional experience has given her an excellent insight into overall business operations. Ritu has also worked as an independent consultant in the areas of Purchasing and Training. Ritu leads the Business Development process at Amplus Solar. Her experience and skill sets give her a unique understanding of customer requirements and expectations. Ritu holds an MBA degree from FMS, Delhi (1996).

Tanvir Singh, VP – New Products

Tanvir brings close to 5 years of experience in the International Solar industry. Prior to joining Amplus Solar, Tanvir was the Managing Director at Solar Cube India Pvt. Ltd. a Subsidiary of Solar Cube Mounting Systems, UK. He was instrumental in establishing the company in India and develop their market entry strategy , apart from heading the entire gamut of operations, new business development, procurement, project management and execution. He led his team to execute 35 projects in India and Middle east with a capacity of 25MW over 2 years. He is currently leading the Projects and Structural Division at Amplus Solar.

Aditya Goyal, GM – Accounts & CS

Aditya Goyal has 6 years of experience in accounting, financial management, auditing and taxation. He earlier worked with Uppal Group, a real estate company, where he was part of the Accounts & Secretarial team. In his past tenure, he looked after Accounting & secretarial part of different group entities and projects like five-star hotel, Housing Projects etc. Aditya is a qualified Chartered Accountant from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and a qualified Company Secretary from The Institute of Company Secretaries of India – 2010 Batch.

Alok Verma , VP – Policy & Regulatory

Alok has more than seven years of experience in Business Development, Policy Affairs, Client Sourcing, Strategy Implementation and Power Trading. He has worked on some of the largest solar deals executed in India of cumulative capacity 1 GW. In his recent roles, he was part of utility business team in SunEdison where he has been instrumental in reducing transmission cost, securing first interstate private utility scale solar project in India. Previously Alok has worked with Hero Future Energies where he managed policy affairs and relationship management for wind and solar power projects under National and State policy. Alok holds MBA degree from University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, Dehardun and Electrical Engineering from Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow.

Anupam Awasthi, VP – Projects

Anupam Awasthi has a work experience of 7+ years in Operations Management, Project Management, Supply Chain Management, International Logistics, Corporate Strategy and General Management. His professional journey started with ABB Ltd as Management Trainee in 2007 followed by Project Manager in Power System SBU. He joined "RPG Group Leadership Development Program" as GMR (Group Management Resource) in 2013 and worked as Manager in Central Planning and Monitoring Group of Transmission and Distribution business at KEC International Ltd Gurgaon, a flagship RPG Group company. He is an Electrical Engineer from MNNIT Allahabad and holds PGDM (Operations and Strategy) from IIM Kozhikode.

Krishan Chauhan, AVP – Procurement

Krishan Dass Chauhan is the AVP – Procurement at Amplus Solar. He has over 10 years of experience in managing Global Sourcing, Procurement & Supply Operations across Electronics and Automobile Sector. He led projects for Supply chain smoothening and agility improvement with LG Electronics & Hero Motocorp, streamlined the sourcing strategies and optimized material management through best practices. A sport's enthusiast, Krishan is an MBA from FMS, Delhi and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics & Communications.

Ramesh Kumar Modalavalasa, AVP – O&M

Ramesh brings with him 12 years of experience in Wind projects from Concept to Commissioning extending into O&M. With a Strong hold on cost dynamics of renewable asset management, his expertise is in Automation of renewable assets and in setting up ROCs (Remote Operations Center) and building new teams for projects and O&M. Ramesh is also Experienced in developing new systems and defining processes. Ramesh holds an MBA in Finance & Bachelor Degree in Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering.

Suthagar Santhanam, VP- Construction

Suthagar Santhanam specializes in Construction of Solar & Wind Power Plants and designing of Power Evacuation. Prior to Amplus, Suthagar has had over 19 years of experience as head of construction for Harsha Abakus Solar and Azure Power India. Suthagar has an undergraduate degree in Electrical & Electronics engineering from CIT, Tamil Nadu. k

Vikas Sareen, VP - Engineering Design

Vikas brings close to 8+ years of diversified experience in the filed of solar plant design along with strong R&D experience in solar cell processing and characterization. In the past, he has worked with some of the fastest growing solar companies (Azure Power, Sunsource Energy, National Physical Laboratory, Nuclear Science Center, etc.) in India and established design & engineering team in the company. During his tenure at Azure Power & SunSource Energy, contributed with his design and engineering skills and improved solar plant generation (both rooftop and ground mount) for projects in India & USA. During his tenure at NPL & NSC, Vikas worked with well-known scientists and contributed to the R&D of Silicon solar cell. During this time he has also published two papers in the filed of Silicon Photovoltaics and Nanotechnology. Vikas holds two master degree’s in Material Physics & Nanotechnology from the Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi.

Sachin Bajaj, Chief Financial Officer

Sachin Bajaj has over 20 years of experience in Accounting, Strategic Planning including Budgeting, Financial and Operational Audit, Taxation, Special Reviews and Mergers and Acquisitions. Prior to Amplus, Sachin has worked with Siemens, as a CFO of a large turnkey business, and with PwC, where he resigned as an Associate Director. He is a SRCC alumni and is a qualified Chartered Accountant from Institute of Chartered Accountants of India -1998 Batch

Ankur Gupta, AVP – New Products & Technology

Ankur brings with him 4+ years of experience in analytics consulting with focus on problem solving and project management. He has previously worked as a Consultant with EXL Analytics in India and the US.Currently working on building new technology and analytics products for the Renewable Energy industry. Ankur is a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Delhi and holds an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad.

Makardhwaj Patra, AVP – Safety

Having more than 14 years of experience of managing EHS across different industry verticals as commercial and office spaces, hospitality, industrial, high end multistory residential buildings along with having an in-depth knowledge in the field of health, safety, and environment & compliance adherence with comprehensive knowledge of standards & regulations followed globally. Prior to joining Amplus,Patra has worked with organizations such as Precast India Infrastructures Pvt. Ltd, TRC Worldwide Engineering Pvt. Ltd. and Archetype Group-India to develop & improve their standards and practices in the field of EHS.

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