Nikhil Jaisinghani

Nikhil Jaisinghani is an experienced entrepreneur having co-founded Value Development Initiatives, a Nigeria-focused energy infrastructure company, and Mera Gao Power (MGP), an Indian company that builds and operates micro grids in North India. He is currently responsible for fund raising and technology at MGP. While co-founding MGP, Nikhil designed a low cost solar powered micro grid capable of serving off-grid households with priority energy needs. Because these micro grids can be built for under $1,000 per hamlet, are fully automated, and have limited O&M needs, MGP’s micro grid design has been highlighted by MIT’s Technology Review magazine as one of the ten most important technological achievements of 2012, by National Geographic Society as the 2014 Terra Watt Prize winner, by the World Economic Forum as a 2015 Technology Pioneers award winner, and by the World Wildlife Fund. Prior to his entrepreneurial endeavors, Nikhil worked at the U.S. Agency for International Development as a project development officer, assembling public private partnerships in Nigeria. He has also lived in Nepal, working as a Peace Corps volunteer. Prior to that, he started his professional career working as a software developer in Silicon Valley and Northern Virginia.