Kishor Nayar

About Kishor Nayar

Houston based energy, water and sustainability business leader, MIT MechE Ph.D, IIT-Bombay B.Tech, licensed professional engineer (P.E.) in ChemE in Texas, former clean-tech. entrepreneur, Forbes 30 Under 30 (Energy), EB1A green card (‘Einstein visa’) awardee (US govt. recognized extraordinary ability). Specialist at developing and closing >$100M complex process engineering solutions, managing and growing a $200M revenue business vertical P & Ls with business development and sales teams, and setting go-to-market strategies in industrial water, decarbonization and infrastructure solutions.Highly skilled at business development, sales (B2B & B2C), finance, management (people, product, project and program), R&D, engineering (process and mechanical) and technology innovation. Subject matter expert in decarbonization (hydrogen production, lithium mining and carbon capture), desalination, membranes, industrial water, sustainability and thermal sciences. Strong leadership and management experience leading multi-disciplinary teams of 3-50 people in non-profit, start-up and large corporation settings.Fourteen (14) years of experience developing, managing and selling energy-water and sustainability solutions (processes, products and projects) becoming among the best in the world in the area. Authored 20 technical publications (cited times) and inventor on 4 patents. Among the world’s top 34 seawater property experts. Deeply passionate about developing and selling products and technology solutions that benefit the world and society, while generating high profits and delivering above market investor returns. Even more passionate about deploying personal capital gained from profitable technical business development towards creating a poverty-free India. Interests: Create good jobs in India and the US, Developing and commercializing novel technologies, Sustainability, Deep tech.(Energy-water, AI-ML etc.), Helping deep tech. entrepreneurs, Effective altruism / compassionate capitalism, Improve life at the bottom-of-the-pyramid especially in India, Investing in entrepreneurs in rural India (rangde.in/kishor-nayar), Funding education in rural IndiaValues: Kindness, Integrity, Respect, Honesty, Grit, Freedom and ExcellenceLife Mission: Use capitalism, education and technology to create an India without material poverty

Experience

1. Director of Business Vertical - Chemical Industry at Evoqua Water Technologies Xylem

   Xylem

   Jan 2024 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   Business Leader accountable for Xylem/Evoqua\'s water treatment business serving the Chemical Processing Industry (CPI). Accountable for the virtual P & Ls (>$200M revenue accountability), revenue and profit growth, sales and go-to-market strategy, business development, negotiating water purchasing agreements (WPAs), risk management (commercial and technical), customer relationship management and strategic business development via M&A- Grew the CPI vertical from ARR ~$150M to >$200M/yr vertical via growth strategy of large scale complex DBOOM projects, contributing >$1B market cap to Xylem- Oversaw the development of several large (>$100M total contract value) build-own-operate projects and opportunities- Led via influence, supported and aligned 100+ key staff across sales, business development, app. engineering, detailed engineering, operations, asset management, leadership, finance, marketing, legal, project mgmt, contracts and R&D to grow annual recurring revenue 30% in a 1-2% growth industry Please reach out to me for any water treatment solutions for the chemical industry. We offer everything the industry needs: from small solutions to very large build-own-operate solutions (well more than $100M

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) with Honours , Mechanical Engineering (Major with Honours) ,Energy Science and Engineering (Minor)

  2008 — 2012

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Master of Science (M.S.), Mechanical Engineering

  2012 — 2014

• MIT Sloan School of Management

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Minor in Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

  2014 — 2019

• Loyola School Trivandrum

  ISC 2008, English, Physics,Chemistry,Maths

  2006 — 2008

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering (Focus: Energy Science & Engineering)

  2014 — 2019

• Loyola School Trivandrum

  ICSE - 2006, Maths, Science,Social Sciences, English and Hindi

  1995 — 2006

Skills

• Matlab
• Simulations
• Fluid Dynamics
• Energy
• C++
• Mechanical Engineering
• Energy Management
• Research
• Desalination
• Heat Exchangers
• Event Management
• Thermodynamics
• Latex
• Microsoft Office
• Data Analysis
• C
• Programming
• Computational Fluid Dynamics (Cfd)
• Cfd
• Microsoft Excel
• Heat Transfer
• Mathematica
• Simulink