The People I Backed
I didn’t just build products — I built the people building the next generation
Building people outlasts building products. Some of India’s most important energy companies today were founded or led by engineers I gave their first chance at Su-Kam. This is the legacy that outlasts any single patent.
Jagdeep Chauhan
Founder, EAPRO Global
A chip salesman from Roorkee I gave his first chance — he went on to invent India’s DSP sine-wave inverter at Su-Kam, and founded EAPRO Global, now serving 10 million users across 20+ countries.
Read his story →Venkat Rajaraman
Founder & CEO, Cygni Energy
He left Nvidia to join Su-Kam in 2007 and led our FPGA inverter R&D. Today he runs Cygni Energy — one of India’s leading battery-storage companies, with a 4.8 GWh assembly plant in Hyderabad.
Read his story →Narender Singh Negi
Head of R&D & Director, V-Guard Industries
The quiet inventor who helped build India’s 360V MPPT solar technology and the DSP Solar PCU at Su-Kam — and rose to lead R&D as a Director at V-Guard Industries.
Read his story →Dr Kushant Uppal
Founder, Intellizon
The engineering mind behind Su-Kam’s lithium solar street lights, who went on to build his own clean-energy venture, Intellizon.
Read his story →Sanjeev Saini
Co-Founder, Inteli Energi
My first R&D engineer in 2001 — the sole founding member of a department that didn’t yet exist. He rose to CTO & Director of Su-Kam over 18 years, with 15+ patents granted, and went on to co-found Inteli Energi Technology.
Read his story →R. Sivarajan
Co-Founder, Inteli Energi
An IIT-Delhi engineer who headed research teams at GE before developing advanced power-electronics technology at Su-Kam — today a co-founder of Inteli Energi Technology.
Read his story →Sunil Badesra
Sungrow India
One of the engineers who got their start in the industry through Su-Kam — now part of the solar inverter business at Sungrow India.
Read his story →Srinivas Pilla
African Power Ventures
From Su-Kam to building power ventures across Africa — carrying Indian energy know-how to new markets, including Nigeria.
Read his story →Ishan Sehgal
Cornell · Whirlpool
One of the young people whose path ran through Su-Kam on the way to Cornell and a global career at Whirlpool.
Read his story →The founders of Smarten Power Systems
Arun Bhardwaj · Rajnish Sharma · Ravi Dutt
Three Su-Kam alumni who went on to build Smarten Power Systems — now a recognised name in India’s inverter and solar industry.
Read their story →Vikas Garg
Su-Kam 3-phase inverter & Solar PCU
A fresh electronics graduate a friend sent me. A multinational hired him away — then he came back for our culture of innovation, and is credited for Su-Kam’s 3-phase inverter and 3-phase Solar PCU technology, the kind India hadn’t built before.
Read his story →