MBA StudentSkoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
Nikhil has over 6 years of experience in the solar industry. Having worked with rural markets in India and East Africa, he is extremely passionate about delivering sustainable energy services to such markets. After spending a couple of years at a Solar Cell and Module manufacturing plant in the UAE, Nikhil moved back to India and spent the next three years working at the social enterprise SELCO Solar.
At SELCO, Nikhil managed expansion into new geographies and lead projects such as solar powering rural milk testing centers, vaccine storage boxes for rural clinics, low cost computing solutions, community mobile charging centers and the Solar Education-Bus project.
Nikhil has been a consultant to M-KOPA Solar, a leader in the off-grid solar pay-as-you-go market using mobile money. He worked with the sales team at M-KOPA on scaling the delivery of solar energy systems into rural Kenya.
Nikhil holds a degree in Business Management from Christ University (Bangalore) and is current a MBA student and Skoll Scholar at Saïd Business School, Oxford University.