Leadership & advisors
A claim about building your own AI is only as good as the people willing to be judged on it. Three groups carry ours: an executive team that has run mission-critical programmes at scale, sector heads who operated in the industries we build for, and an advisory bench with the standing to reject a method before anyone builds on it.
Executive
Each sector head has operated inside the industry they now lead for us. That is the whole hiring rule, a research question should start from a real failure mode, and only someone who has lived it knows which one matters.
A former Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament from Tamil Nadu. Distinguished leader with extensive experience in business, governance, and strategic leadership. Provides strategic direction and executive oversight to drive Innopas’ growth, partnerships, and long-term vision.
Three decades in the IT industry building and scaling enterprise and delivery organisations, with deep grounding in banking and financial services. Leads Innopas on customer outcomes, disciplined innovation and growth that holds.
Over three decades modernising large-scale financial platforms, with leadership roles at NPCI, IFTAS and MCX. Co-inventor of UPI. National payments infrastructure now used at a scale few systems anywhere reach. Advises across regulated financial ecosystems.
A public-sector consulting leader who has delivered large, policy-driven programmes end to end. Brings the structured advisory discipline that citizen-facing modernisation demands, and transparency, security and something that still runs after the launch photos.
A medical doctor with a strategic consulting perspective, which is a rarer combination than it sounds. Drives healthcare work that is outcomes-led and ethically grounded, judged on care quality rather than on deployment count.
Leads aerospace design across the full arc: architecture trade-offs, CAD and CAE maturity, PDR and CDR reviews, and design for manufacture and test readiness in production programmes where traceability is itself a deliverable.
Advisory bench
An advisor who only ever agrees is decoration. These are people with the standing and the independence to reject a method, a market read or a claim before it reaches a customer.
Three decades of service at UNIDO, culminating as Principal Adviser to the Director General. An economist who has published on innovation, industrial development and economic growth, twice recognised with the UNIDO Director General's Award alongside lifetime achievement distinctions.
Forty years in solar EPC, battery energy storage and hybrid power infrastructure, combining technical depth with project finance, SPV structuring and public-private partnership leadership on bankable Net Zero projects across India and the Middle East.
Research network
Sector advisors tell us which problem matters. The research bench tells us whether our answer is sound — a different question, asked by different people. All of them are named on the leadership page.
Two PhD advisors review approach and validity before anything is built: whether the method is sound, whether the baseline is honest, and whether a result means what we think it means. Named in conversation, and on this page as we publish their work with us.
A working association that puts researchers and students onto defined problems with real data, under an agreement settling publication and IP before the first line of code. The research model is set out under DTRIHub, our DeepTech Research & Intelligence Hub.
A note on this page. We publish credentials that can be checked: institutions, roles, programmes. Where an advisor's involvement is under agreement and not yet public, we say that rather than implying more. Ask us and we will tell you exactly who worked on what.
Start here
Thirty minutes with the engineers who would do the work. No deck, no discovery invoice, a straight read on feasibility, sequence and what a first build would take, including when the answer is that you should not build it.
