PM is currently a Venture Partner at NEA and is a core member of their energy team with special interests in Renewable energy areas including Solar energy . He has over 30 years of manufacturing and mass prodduction experience and has been in the recent past the COO of Sunpower Corporation one of the top 10 solar energy related manufacturing companies in the world. As a member of the Sunpower start up team he was responsible for the complete operational aspects along with supply chain operations. Key areas of his responsibility included strategic planning and rapid expansion of the operations on a world wide basis to ensure a leadership position for Sunpower in Solar Energy Industry.
His past operations experience with various international companies include IBM, Tatas and Xerox in India. Most recently prior to Sunpower he served as President of Moser Baer India Ltd, a leading optical disc manufacturing business where during his tenure he established and ramped up large scale manufacturing and distribution operations to lead the company to the third largest in the world in terms of market share.
PM currently is on the board of several companies including Suniva, Deeya Energy , Aver-Q , ATS India and i-create and provides strategic advisory and consulting services.
PM graduated from Mysore University in India in Mechanical Engineering . His graduate work also includes a M Tech Industrial Engineering from IIT Chennai and the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.
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