Kunwer Sachdev’s tribute to Sanjeev Saini — Su-Kam’s first R&D engineer hired in 2001, who rose to CTO in 18 years, filed 15+ patents, and whose story was affected by the Su-Kam insolvency proceedings.
Kunwer Sachdev shares the story of Srinivas Pilla — headhunted from a white goods company in Nigeria to head Su-Kam’s African subsidiary, and the battery tussle that opened all of Africa and the Middle East to Indian tubular batteries.
Kunwer Sachdev shares a two-generation story — from the SBI bank manager who gave him his first Rs 2 lakh credit limit in 1990, to his son Ishan Sehgal who worked at Su-Kam and is now at Whirlpool Corporation in Chicago.
Kunwer Sachdev shares the story of three Su-Kam alumni — Arun Bhardwaj, Rajnish Sharma, and Ravi Dutt — who went on to co-found Smarten Power Systems, winners of the National Export Excellence Award 2025.
Kunwer Sachdev shares his personal story of Sunil Badesra — a GET trainee from Apeejay College of Engineering who rose through Su-Kam to become Country Head at Sungrow India, leading the company to a 50 GW milestone.
Su-Kam built India’s first solar IoT platform before WiFi was mainstream — remote monitoring of inverters and solar systems across sites using GSM and GPRS. Kunwer Sachdev on the technology, the team, and why the industry ignored it.
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Kunwer Sachdev shares his decade-long story with Narender Singh Negi — the quiet R&D engineer who helped build India’s 360V MPPT solar technology and DSP Solar PCU at Su-Kam, and rose to Head of R&D before joining V-Guard Industries as Director.
Kunwer Sachdev shares how he gave Jagdeep Chauhan — a chip salesman from Roorkee — his first chance in the inverter industry. Jagdeep went on to invent India’s DSP Sine Wave Inverter technology at Su-Kam and later founded EAPRO Global, now serving 10 million users across 20+ countries.
How Venkat Rajaraman left Nvidia to join Su-Kam in 2007, led FPGA inverter R&D with Kunwer Sachdev, and founded Cygni Energy — India’s leading battery storage company with a 4.8 GWh assembly plant in Hyderabad.