Board of Management
Anand Vardhan
Founder & Chairman
40 years of Corporate Experience: Graduate in Economics with specialisation in business strategies and devoted to technology development in the transport industry including tracking and monitoring system for Aviation, Obstruction Detection System for Railways. Anand Vardhan has also pioneered the development of the Wireless Charging of Electric Vehicles along with Delhi Technological University (DTU). This Technology is awaiting award of patent in E-Mobility Infrastructure segment.
Sanjiv Banerji
Managing Director
FCA, ACMA, Exec Mgt IIM C Management Programes – SP Jain – Creating Value through FM, Insurance – Risk Management, Motorola- Six Sigma Green Belt, Euro Finance – Treasury Management, IRDA certified.
33 years of corporate experience
Nirdosh Dhiman
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
An MBA – B.Com graduate with 25 years of Corporate Experience.
Shoubhik Sen
Chief Operation Officer (COO)
B.TechElectrical Engg – Jadavpur Engg College, Cert. Six Sigma Black Belt, Cert. Lean Mgt, Cert Lead Auditor – ISO 9001 & 14001
36 years of corporate experience
Devender Singh
Managing Director, Body Manufacturing
Mr Devender Singh is a doyen of the Indian automobile industry with over 50 years of experience in bus manufacturing. Today he has been elected President, of the All-India Coach and Body Builders Association for his excellence.
Mr Singh, making a modest start as a fabricator in the 70s grew to be JV partner of Daewoo Motors in the early 90s and soon followed by the launch of FOTON buses in India under JV with FOTON, world’s single largest bus manufacture from China.
Today he is committed to the national cause of developing Electric buses to reduce carbon emissions to zero.
Achintya Pal
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
25 years of corporate experience
Ashutosh Thapliyal
Chief Technology Officer (SEGULA)
Over 20 years of experience in automobile manufacturing engineering, design, and development. Spearheading contemporary technologies at SEGULA / EDAG, Ashutosh today holds a commanding position in automotive design and development with specific reference to electric vehicle engineering comprising electric, electronics, production solutions, automation, software, and digitization.
His expertise also lies in the integrated development and optimization of vehicles, production facilities, derivatives, and modules.
Preet Inder Singh
BE (Mech) UK, President Body Manufacturing
Mr Preet Inder Singh after specialising in the UK and Canada in the automotive technology has created appropriate technologies in agricultural implements that making Indian farming extremely efficient and cost effective.
Mr Singh is today working on automation and electric vehicles design and development to meet the global climate change needs.
Advisory Board
Young Ho Kim
Chief Executive Officer
Young Ho Kim, who joined Samsung Corporation in its early days as a young lad, went on to become one of the engines to drive the growth of the Samsung brand to meteoric heights from a grocery shop in the 1930s to South Korea’s leading conglomerate today, producing nearly one-fifth of the country’s total exports with a primary focus in the electronics, heavy industry, construction, and defense industries. Kim has played a strategic role in the development of markets for the Samsung brand in a highly competitive ecosystem. Kim brings along with him wealth of knowledge to integrate the disruptive EV technology into the real economy.
Marc Fontyne
Advisor
Marc Fontyne spent most of his career with Barco (Belgian American Radio Company), set up in the 1930s to assemble radios using parts imported from the United States. Barco’s odyssey of success has been marked by creativity and motivation. Marc has been associated with the company’s high-quality research and development effort, which has
taken Barco to the next level in stadia display systems, medical electronics, navigation systems and defence applications in the highly developed European and American markets. His passion for research and technology development has taken him to the space technology, where he is associated with a project to take man to the moon. Thus Marc brings to Zap Mobility cutting edge research and development capabilities, besides his marketing genius, to take the EV technology into a new Orbit.
Georg von Oldershausen
Advisor
Georg von Oldershausen brings major corporate experience working as he was as Managing Director of one the major shipping Giant in Greece. He was responsible for not only the operations of the company but also its major expansion, which involved massive financial structuring and debt syndication. This put him in a unique position that gave him the financial muscle and the engineering skills with operational management to optimise yields. Oldershausen has also been the Managing Director of a major German conglomerate, involved in the manufacturing business for a decade.
Alexey Sazanov
Advisor
An ardent science enthusiast, Alexey Sazanov was attracted to aviation technology and navigation systems at a young age. Having graduated in aviation from St Petersburg, he moved to Moscow to pursue further specialisation in aviation engineering. Alexey brings to Zap Mobility his 19 years of cutting edge aviation technology management experience.