Rohan Choukkar
Vice President at Bharat Innovation Fund
Rohan Choukkar
Vice President at Bharat Innovation Fund
Bengaluru, Karnataka
Overview
Work Experience
VP (Investments)
2021 - Current
Associate
2017 - 2020
Patient capital to support disruptive entrepreneurs - deep technology and IP-driven innovations to solve some of India's toughest problems http://bharat.fund/
Board Member
2022
Board Observer
2020
Senior Manager
2015 - 2018
Building CIIE Pune's accelerator programmes.
Energy Analyst
2013 - 2014
Back-end, part-time work for start-ups working on cloud-based energy consumption tracking, analytics and performance verification platforms Performance benchmarking, cost forecasting and variance analysis of energy data for commercial real estate portfolio managers and residential units
Research Associate
2011 - 2013
Materials chemistry & reaction modeling of earth-abundant materials for ultra-low-cost photovoltaic and thermoelectric devices Synthesis, characterization and processing of nanostructured materials used for various clean technology applications Techniques used: Colloidal/nanoparticle synthesis, FTIR and UV-Vis spectroscopy, XRD,
Program Officer
2010 - 2011
The Ganage Group was a major supplier of stamped/pressed components to OEMs like Tata Motors Ltd and Piaggio India. Reported directly to the then-CEO, as part of a turnaround effort at a large loss-making enterprise Short-term assignment involving the design and implementation of stabilization strategies for under-performing manufacturing processes
Program Officer (Market Development)
2009 - 2010
Technology appropriation and business model development for rural micro-enterprise projects targeted the bottom of the economic pyramid (<US $1.25 daily income) Fund-raising: Produced technical/business proposals for both development agencies and VC/PE firms. Raised a total of over INR 10 million (~US$200k in 2009) Co-authored annual reports submitted to the Department of Science and Technology, and the Ministry of Rural Development Managed the FabLab (http://fab.cba.mit.edu/), a set of high-precision fabrication tools operated in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Worked towards converting it into an incubation center for start-ups that have the "bottom of the economic pyramid" (daily income < $1.25) as the target demographic Organizing team: FAB5 (Pune, India: August 16-21, 2009)
Software Engineer
2008 - 2008
Developer: VC++ and SQL Server