Board of Directors
Board of Directors
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Mr. Sushil Kumar Soonee
Independent Director and Chairman of the Board
Mr. S. K. Soonee
Independent Director and Chairman of the Board
With an extensive and impressive experience in Power System Operation, Planning Commercial, Restoration, Settlement, and the entire system of Power Pooling and governance, Mr. Sushil Kumar Soonee is a Founder Chief Executive Officer and former advisor of the Power System Operation Corporation Ltd. Mr. Soonee also has over four decades of experience in Power System Operations of several Regional Grids of India and has worked considerably for years towards the integration of these grids. With his extensive experience, he joins New Age Markets in Electricity Private Limited’s Strategic Advisory Board.
Mr. Soonee’s unmatched leadership skills helped him develop the National Grid and more recently, the SAARC Grid. His other interests lay in the amalgamation of Electricity Markets, Open Access and Regulatory Affairs besides expertise in Load Dispatch Technology integration of Renewable Energy including REC Mechanism, Transmission Pricing and development of Ancillary Services.
Mr. Soonee is a Life Fellow of Institution of Engineers (India), a Fellow of IEEE, Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, Distinguished member CIGRE, Fellow of INAE and Foreign Member at the NAE, USA. He has represented India on the CIGRE Study Committee C2 on Power System Operation and the CIGRE Study Committee C5 on Electricity Markets and energy Regulation.
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Mr. Kapil Dev
Managing Director
Kapil Dev
Managing Director
A respected leader and a seasoned professional with 24 years of diversified experience, Mr. Kapil Dev is an accomplished executive with a proven track record to conceptualize, develop, organize, execute and implement strategies to meet business goals and financial objectives.
Mr. Kapil Dev, started his career with NHPC Limited (A Govt. of India Enterprise) and during his career has worked across the value chain in the sector including trading and for Power Exchange India Limited. During his tenure Power Exchange has seen a growth of more than 100% for three consecutive years. Mr. Kapil Dev has been associated with the development of power markets in the country since its early days.
Mr. Kapil Dev completed his BSc Engineering in Aligarh Muslim University and holds PGDBM from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. Mr. Kapil Dev has done a four-week course from the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, China.
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Mr. Pravir Vohra
Independent Director
Mr. Pravir Vohra
Independent Director
With a passion to leverage the power of available and emerging technologies to solve real life business issues, improve operating efficiency, design new products and processes that would touch the lives of Indians, Mr. Pravir Vohra joins New Age Markets in Electricity Private Limited’s Advisory Board.
With his unique ability to evaluate technology from a business perspective, Mr. Vohra leverages it to reduce costs or generate combined revenues. Mr. Vohra has immense experience and knowledge in IT architecture, domain expertise in financial products, process re‐engineering, IT operations and strategy and an incredible foresight in the everchanging landscape of today with his stint spanning close to four decades in the industry. In ICICI bank, Mr, Vohra managed multiple functions including the Retail Technology Group, and Technology Management Group. During his tenure here, he came across the deployment of technology across the bank’s branches and was determined to bring in future-ready, independent, and scalable infrastructure. His goal later was to ensure to bring in a meaningful process in the technology with fulfilling the final objective of remaining a flexible, agile and competitive group of ICICI bank.
Post his retirement as Group CTO from ICICI Bank in 2012, he mentored start-ups in the payments space and even completed a 2-year assignment to set up the Tech & Ops function at New Development Bank, Shanghai. He continues to serve on the Technology Advisory Committees of organizations like the Bombay Stock Exchange, NCDEX, Indian Clearing Corporation, SEBI, NPCI and Power Exchange India among others. He is an independent Director on the Boards of Thomas Cook India Ltd., IDFC First Bank, NCML Ltd. & 3i Infotech Ltd. Mr. Vohra has served on numerous technology & functional committees set up by organizations such as the Central Board of Direct Taxes, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIAI) as well as the Reserve Bank of India, the Indian Banking Association and NPCI. He has also served as a nominee director on the boards of Loyalty Solutions & Research Pvt Ltd, ICICI Securities Ltd, Firstsource Solutions Ltd and as an independent director on MCX India Ltd, Quess Corporation and Goldman Sachs AMC (India) Ltd.
Accolades won by Mr. Vohra include The Asian Banker Achievement Award for Technology & Operations in 2006 and the Symantec Asia South Visionary 2008. He was also one of the three CIOs of international banks to have featured on the Information Week's Global CIO 50 List for 2009.
Having completed his post-graduation from St. Stephen’s college, University of Delhi, in Economics, Mr. Vohra is a Certified Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers. He began his career with the SBI and worked there for over 23 years. Later, he held various senior level positions in technology as well as business in the bank in India and internationally. He was responsible for the technology function for State Bank's branches in the US and Canada. He also headed the Bank’s Forex Division at New Delhi. With the growing technology, Mr. Vohra focused on enabling to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and pushing competitiveness and developing various products that boost relevance in the market.
Mr. Vohra’s ability to examine technology from the business ideology and enabling it to cut cost, or generate revenue together with the incredible foresight in an ever-growing market landscape is what distinguishes him from others.
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Mr. V H Mehta
Non-Executive Director
Mr. V H Mehta
Non-Executive Director
Business minded with a creative approach, Mr. Vishesh Harshad Mehta is a full-time Director at New Age Markets in Electricity Private Limited. He builds corporate functionalities for New Age Markets in Electricity Private Limited including finances, legal, compliances, fundraising, and establishing alliances for curating technology capabilities for smooth functioning.
Mr. Vishesh Harshad Mehta holds 15 years of professional experience in sales and marketing in business domains including automotive & service/solutions, automobile, real estate, and construction, equity market, construction & Fly ash, film & food.
He is highly skilled in negotiation with both vendors and customers as well as working with the blue-collar worker and relationship management with agencies and the government. Apart from handling marketing at trade shows and other promotional events, he has also been a cross-functional team member for Localization in Durr India.
Mr. Vishesh Harshad Mehta has a result-oriented approach, believes in smart work, is analytically strong, and possess strong communication skills.
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ED-PSPM
Nominee Director (REC Ltd)
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