Our Leadership Team
Our senior leadership team draws from diverse backgrounds, but shares a common purpose - powering India's economic development by providing consumers clean, renewable energy.
Inderpreet Wadhwa – Founder & CEO
Inderpreet is a renewable energy enthusiast and has over 18 years experience building large scale infrastructure projects, patented application products, extremely profitable operations, and raising venture/project finance for startups and fortune 500 companies in energy, retail, financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing, CPG, and service industries. In 2007, Inderpreet incorporated Azure power, which is now a leading solar service provider in India, with a vision for creating energy security in rural India through medium scale Solar PV generation. Inderpreet has relentlessly lobbied generation based incentives in solar sector through Clean Trade initiatives across US and India. He has been instrumental in creating India's first commercial MW scale Solar Power Plant. His work has been highlighted in top tier publications such as Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Business Today, and Economic Times. He is passionate about rural electrification and energy security through clean energy sources. Inderpreet graduated from Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and has Bachelors in Electronics Engineering from G.N.D.U, Punjab.
H. S. Wadhwa – COO
HS Wadhwa focuses on government relationships and internal operations of the company. He is an ex-Chairman of Magma Leasing Solutions Pvt. Ltd and past CEO of India’s largest public insurance organization. He has over 40 years experience in financial services industry in India. Served and/or serves on several boards including General Insurance, India International, loss Prevention Association and has strong ties with India’s leaders, both elected and appointed.
Ben Parry – Director Project Finance
Ben has several years of experience internationally in renewable energy finance, including international market strategy development for SunEdison. An MBA from Georgetown University (Washington, DC), he directs financial analysis, budgeting, debt and equity partner evaluation, legal compliance, and relationships with financial supporters of Azure Power.
P Raghavan – VP Operations
Raghavan leads technical design, engineering, construction and operations of the power generating facilities. He has over 20 years of experience in operations and commissioning of power projects. Raghavan has commissioned over 200MW of grid connected renewable energy projects for companies such as Suzlon and Reliance. He has strong experience in site analysis, pre construction planning, design, construction, power evacuation and operations of renewable energy facilities. Raghavan is an Electrical Engineering graduate from Jamia Milia University in New Delhi.
Preet Sandhu – SVP Project Development, Co-founder
Preet Sandhu manages project development, nodal agency liaison, clearances, contracts, power purchase agreements, land development/acquisition, power evacuation and contractor qualification for Azure Power’s utility scale projects. He has over 16 years experience in civil construction and state regulatory frameworks for transportation, energy and rural land development.
Dalip Kewalramani – Financial Controller
Dalip heads Azure Power’s finance & accounting department, and is responsible for statutory compliance. He has over 23 years of experience in well diversified blend of industries like consulting, hardware, IT and Infrastructure. His core area of expertise lies in setting up processes, systems in the field of accounting, finance and HR. He is a graduate from Delhi University and Chartered Accountant from ICAI, India, New Delhi.