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Inderpreet WadhwaFounder and CEO at AzurePower

Summary

Inderpreet is a renewable energy enthusiast and has over 18 years experience building large scale

infrastructure projects, patented application products, extremely profitable operations, and raisingventure/project finance for startups and fortune 500 companies in energy, retail, financial services,

telecommunications, manufacturing, CPG, and service industries. In 2007, Inderpreet incorporated

Azurepower, which is now a leading solar service provider in India, with a vision for creating energy

security in rural India through medium scale Solar PV generation. Inderpreet has relentlessly lobbied

generation based incentives in solar sector through Clean Trade initiatives across US and India. He

has been instrumental in creating India's first commercial MW scale Solar Power Plant and his work

has been highlighted in top tier publications such as Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Business

Today, and Economic Times. He is passionate about rural electrification and energy security through

clean energy sources. Inderpreet graduated from Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and hasBachelors in Electronics Engineering from G.N.D.U, Punjab.

Specialties

venture finance, project finance, organization design, branding, engineering, operations, government

liaison and policy framework design.

Experience

Founder and CEO at AzurePower, Inc.

July 2007 - Present (3 years 1 month)

Azure Power is an independent solar power producer and the first private sector company to

implement a megawatt scale grid connected solar photo-voltaic power plant in India. Azure Power's

team has decades of experience building industry-leading companies, executing complex

infrastructure projects, and financing high-growth enterprises. Azure Power creates innovative

solutions to deliver solar energy to its utility, government, and commercial customers. By providing

solar energy as a service, Azure Power manages entire project process for their customers, by

reducing the upfront and ongoing operational costs and management. Azure is implementing

several MW scale solar power plants across various states in India. The plants, once fullyoperational, will produce clean energy; result in avoidance of CO2 emissions and supply regular

power to a large number of households.

VP, Products and Operations at Loyalty Lab

May 2005 - May 2007 (2 years 1 month)

Responsible for engineering, product management and operations for this early stage on demand

consumer marketing startup. see www.loyaltylab.com for details

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Senior Director, Applications Development at Oracle Corporation

March 1996 - April 2005 (9 years 2 months)

Held various engineering and product management positions encompassing e-commerce, partner

management, trade management, Internet marketing, e-payments, content management, business

intelligence, and financial applications at Oracle. Instrumental in building the offshore development

team, multi-tenant architecture and release infrastructure for CRM applications.

Lead Consultant at PCL/HCL ConsultingJune 1994 - March 1996 (1 year 10 months)

Lead consultant for SFA and ERP solutions for leading media and pharmaceutical companies.

Co-founder at AECL

March 1991 - May 1994 (3 years 3 months)

Co-founder software education business unit.

EducationHaas School of Business, UC Berkeley

MBA, Hi-Tech Marketing, Finance, 2002

G.N.D.U, Punjab

B. Tech, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 1990 - 1994

Interests

Skiing, racquetball, reading, traveling, music and improving quality of life in rural areas..

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Inderpreet WadhwaFounder and CEO at AzurePower

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