Manoj Sinha

Manoj has raised both Equity and Debt capital for Husk Power Systems. Manoj also manages corporate relationship with Fortune 500 companies and is involved with new business development opportunities outside of India. Over the past 8 years, Manoj has successfully led multi-national teams in semiconductor companies, Intel Corp and Micron Technology, to design and manufacture microprocessors and memory chips (DRAMs). Manoj spearheaded the design of I/O of “Atom” microprocessor – a processor that powers most netbooks in the world. While working as senior design engineers at Intel Corp and Micron Technology, Manoj was also granted 7 U.S. patents for creative and new methods for chip design.Manoj brings a tremendous experience of capital markets since he worked as Investment Banker at UBS in New York City as well as in Corporate Development role at a major financial services company. Additionally, Manoj also actively mentors 6-8 bright social entrepreneurs (from Unreasonable Institute) across multiple continents (North America, Africa and Asia). Manoj is also a 2008 Pop!Tech Fellow and 2009 Global Social Benefit Incubator Fellow. Manoj earned his B.Tech in Electronics Engineering with honors from Institute of Technology, BHU in 1999 and later an MS in Electrical & Computer Engineering from University of Massachusetts Amherst. Manoj also received an MBA from Darden Graduate School of Business in 2009. He was awarded Genovese Fellowship for his abilities as a high potential General Manager while pursuing his MBA. Lately, he enjoys guest lecturing in entrepreneurial classes at various business schools in the U.S.