Shyam Menon

Mr. Shyam Menon is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at Bharat Innovation Fund. He serves as Board Member at REConnect Energy. He was a Co-Founder of Infuse Ventures, India's first sustainability, and cleantech-focused fund. He has over a dozen years' experience in the energy sector including investment management roles at Conduit Ventures, a corporate-backed early-stage energy venture capital fund in London and Nadathur Holdings, a family investment office in Singapore. At Conduit Ventures, he evaluated and invested in startups operating in the areas of energy efficiency, energy storage, and emissions control across Europe. As part of the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) at the World Bank (2005-2007) in Washington DC, he worked on Carbon Finance methodology development and techno-economic analysis of energy use in India and China and as a member of the China Energy Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California (2004-2005), he addressed topics around low carbon technology penetration in the transportation sector in China. He was also a materials research engineer at Acumentrics Corporation and Fuel Cell Energy, fuel cell technology-based energy businesses in Boston, Massachusetts, and Danbury, Connecticut from 2001-2004. He holds a Masters in Materials Engineering from the University of Missouri, a Bachelors in Metallurgical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Nagpur, India, and advanced energy policy studies from the University Of California.