Pranesh Krishnamurthy
Innovation Strategist
Strategy & Curation
In Addition to 12+ years in Engineering, Product Development, Product to Market, Research, Marketing, Operations, Business Development, Project execution in the Fields of Mechanical Engineering, Solar Energy and Business in general, below is the gist of various roles I serve. CEO at Protege Sports Networks, an Organisation providing SAAS services and GPS multi-sensor based indegenous Wearable Technology products for the sports market Globally. Protege Sports Networks (http://protegesportshq.com) now serves products in sports technology to India, USA and Africa. Director (Director of Projects - Global) at Nuevo Power Inc., a Solar company founded in the Bay Area in California, USA. Specialised in a niche target market of premium island resorts based on off-grid solutions. Markets served - East Africa, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Philippines and India. Director at My Digital Agency, a digital and social media marketing and design agency serving clients in USA, Canada, Middle-East and India, catering to niche product solutions for global Conglomerates. In addition, also serving as Strategy Advisor, Product Director and similar roles in JVs with Media Giants seving 100 Mn+ global customers, and various start ups.
More About Pranesh Krishnamurthy
My most successful innovation work ...
Building multi-sensor based Wearable Technology for professional sports based on sensor-fusion - currently one of only about 7 companies in the world that have managed to build a successful field tested and commerical product in this space (in the last 15 years). It was a completely bootstrapped process.
An a-ha moment that changed my way of innovating was ...
Having worked with multiple start ups, I have faced a lot of failures that have taught me many invaluable lessons - the foremost being that the fear of failure should never stop one from trying and that patience leads to success.
My most inspiring project at Iterate ...
Worked with the Ministry of Renewable Energy, Govt. of India, on developing the most unique MW scale Solar Thermal power project in the World, combining Parabolic Trough, Linear Fresnel Reflector technology and a complex combination of Thermic fluids operating at 400 degrees C and two-phase flow (including superheated Steam) to drive a single Turbine to produce electricity ( form 2008 - 2012). The project generated dozens of international research papers and a few patents. The project still stands as the reference standard for Solar thermal performance mapping.
Qualities of an innovator
- Curiosity
- Hard-work
- Never being satisfied with your results (drives you to research more)!
Why work with Iterate?
My natural love for Research and technology innovation attracted me to work with Iterate as the organisation works at the cutting edge of technology research for some of the biggest brands globally.
You may not know about me ...
I was an instructor for Krav Maga (with the international Krav Maga Federation), the Israeli self defence technique taught to the IDF.
Most inspiring Leader-Innovator(s) ...
Elon Musk
What school did NOT teach me ...
How to understand and gauge people and talent and how to build successful teams
Free Time
I play soccer at the semi-professional level
One Favorite Book
by Peter Thiel
Gave me a very fresh and structured perspective to Innovations and Start-ups.
Favorite Quotes About Innovation
“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you arent innovating enough.”
~ Elon Musk
Favorite Music
Pulse (the album) - Pink Floyd
Favorite Movie
The Shawshank Redemption
