Manas Patnaik
Bachelors in Technology from University of Kolkata. Co founder of Solaryte, 34 years of experience in industry from Steel making
to software delivery to fortune 500 companies. Currently CEO of Embytes Solutions Inc which he founded in 2009. Former Director
Key Accounts Aricent Technology Holdings. Accomplished executive in domestic and international experience in operations and P&L
oversight. Manas brings in expertise in long range planning and market analysis and customer acquisition.
Arun Kumar
Masters in Information Technology, 18 years in industry working with fortune 500 companies.
Currently Director at Embytes Solutions an accomplished control automation professional who
devotes his time in designing solution in M2M space. Prior to his engagement at Embytes Solution
Arun worked for Aricent Technology Holding managing large initiatives. Arun worked as a control
engineer with Johnson Controls a world leader in building automation space.
Raghu Das
Raghu Das has over 20 years of senior level experience in the satellite and telecommunications industry.
He was a co-founder and Senior vice President (Sales & Marketing) for ProtoStar Satellite, where he led
the efforts to secure anchor DTH customers for the PS-1 and PS-2 satellites and over $500M of project
finance. He was also Vice President and Managing Director of Loral Skynet Europe, ME & Africa from
2003-2004, Vice President – IOR for Loral CyberStar from 2000-2003, and Vice President, Sales
(Asia-Pacific) for Loral Orion from 1994-1998.
Before joining Loral, Raghu was the Director of Technology for Orion Network Systems (1992-1994)
and before that, held positions as Principal Engineer for ARINC, Project Manager for SWIFT,
Consultant for Syntel and Systems Executive/Consultant for Tata Consulting Services. Raghu has a
Master’s Engineering Management/Marketing from George Washington University.
Bidhu Nayak
Managing Director, LianHai Resources Limited (LHR), established in year 2005, in Hong Kong with the aim of being a reliable sourcing house,
to deal with various Engineering and renewable energy products. Bidhu brings in his expertise on international trade and will play a pivotal
role in sourcing renewable energy solution from across main land china.
Ashok Kar
Ashok Kar, the first Indian to graduate from the HEC Paris Business School, is currently Managing Partner of Infra Technologies,
a Franco-Indian Business Consultancy. He has been, for close to a decade, advisor to the European Commission on European Union
(EU)-India relations in areas of Information & Communication Technologies and Media.
Ashok has close to thirty years of experience across various industries with a strong focus on technology collaboration between India
and France. He is Emeritus Member and Member of the Board of The EuroIndia Centre, the first and only EuroIndia Think Tank that works
on bringing India and Europe together to address India’s massive techno-economic-societal challenges by sharing of knowledge, expertise,
technologies and best practices. Ashok brings significant expertise to bolster Solaryte’s efforts to leverage innovative technologies and
business-models prevalent across the European Union.”