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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

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