Swadesh Srivastava

About Swadesh Srivastava

I’ve built & led teams, product, operations & business across sectors - electric mobility & battery, consumer electronics, robotics & automation, IoT & telematics, e-commerce supply chain.I enjoy enabling people & products with the potential to improve quality of life for the masses. I’ve special affinity for deep-tech & hard sciences.I believe innovation is driven by first principle thinking, human-centric design & simplicity. The process of a sincere & joyous climb is much more rewarding than somehow reaching the summit.Bridging purpose, technology & human creativity — supporting early-stage founders & co-creating mindfully.

Experience

1. Angel Investor & Advisor

   Multiple Startups

   Jan 2017 — Present

   Focus: Clean-tech (EV, Batteries, Energy Storage, Solar, Agri, Carbon Capture), AI & Robotics, Supply Chain Automation, and Consumer Electronics - Clip, Unbox Robotics, Lal10, Solshare, Aqysta, Khethworks, SWAR- Advisor with Entrepreneur First, Sangam Ventures, Cowrks Foundry

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

  B.Tech, Materials Science

  1998 — 2002

• University of Minnesota

  MS, Electrical Engineering

  2005 — 2006

• University of Minnesota

  Ph.D., Materials Science

  2002 — 2008

Skills

• Accelerated Life Testing
• Supply Chain Management
• Product Development
• Product Engineering
• Reliability Engineering
• Mems
• Stress Testing
• Process Engineering
• Afm
• Etching
• Spc
• Wafer Cleaning
• Powder X-Ray Diffraction
• Xrd
• Statistics
• Nanotechnology
• Process Capability Study
• Product Design
• Six Sigma
• Characterization
• Customer Management
• Electron Diffraction
• Problem Solving
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• Semiconductors
• Electrical Engineering
• Fmea
• Mbe
• Cmp
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Jmp
• Photolithography
• Sputtering
• Electronics
• Process Development
• Product Management
• Design of Experiments
• Manufacturing
• Thin Films
• Xps