The Boss Monk profiles Kunwer Sachdev — “The Inverter Man of India” — the founder of Su-Kam Power Systems who built India’s power-backup industry from a Delhi workshop.
The Boss Monk — an Indian entrepreneurship publication — published a full-length profile of Kunwer Sachdev, tracing the arc of a man widely called “The Inverter Man of India”. The piece walks through the founding of Su-Kam, the innovations that reshaped Indian power backup, and the lessons Sachdev has drawn from three decades of building manufacturing businesses.
From selling pens to selling inverters
The profile opens on Sachdev’s early years in Delhi: selling pens on buses, learning street-level selling, then moving into cable television distribution before spotting the opening that would define his career — an Indian inverter industry ready to be built from scratch.
Innovation that defined a category
The Boss Monk notes Su-Kam’s pattern of firsts: the plastic-body inverter, the sine-wave home UPS, solar hybrid inverters, and lithium-ion inverters for Indian homes. Sachdev holds one of the largest patent portfolios in the Indian power electronics industry.
“Every product Su-Kam built was a first for India. That’s what innovation means — not copying what exists elsewhere, but creating what your own country needs.”
— Kunwer Sachdev, quoted in The Boss Monk