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Krishna (Kris) K. Nair is the CEO of Opdrage Venture Partners, a ‘Mentor Capitalist™’ and super angel VC firm focusing on building and nurturing early stage ventures in Technology, Defence and Social Ventures.
He’s a Co-Founder of Kerala Business Angels Network (INR 80 Cr Angel Group) and a Mentor at National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN), connecting 600+ colleges in India.
He’s also an Advisor and Mentor at Innovation Lab, Kochi and Mentor at Foundation of Youth in Social Entrepreneurship and IIMA Mentor Edge.
Mr. Nair is a former Advisor at the Indian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (IVCA). He’s also a General Partner at the upcoming TiE Kerala Seedfund.
Before conceptualizing Opdrage, Mr. Nair was heading the Corporate Strategy and Development at Satellier Inc. where he helped ENR Top 500 Engineering Companies in engineering work share advisory and transition strategy. He was the part of the founding team and the investors in creating and executing firm strategy and managing a P&L more than USD 20 million. Passionate about sales and marketing, he worked with the leadership team in expanding the business beyond United States; to Europe, Middle East and Australia.
As a Co-Founder, he was instrumental in Satellier’s business development strategy and global market entry & pricing strategy. He drafted firm’s India strategy to focus on taping India’s construction market. He worked on diversified programs including market innovation, program management, product management, sales and M&A.
Satellier Inc. is an investment portfolio of Sequoia Capital and Indian Angel Network.
Earlier, he spent many years as a market analyst and management consultant with Gartner Inc and counseled CEOs and Boards of leading global companies in outsourcing, software, and technology sectors on broad-ranging business issues including corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, and business turnaround.
Previously, Kris Nair Co-Founded two companies (Navigator Media Intelligence and IMI Consulting)
Kris Nair learned the basics of Applied Physics from Kerala University, Management from the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania and Leadership from the Indian Military Academy.
As an active researcher of Fundamental Leadership, he spends 7 years in voluntarily military training and was one of the Tops 1% cadets of the National Cadet Corps, India.
He spends his free time teaching and enabling entrepreneurship at leading business / technology schools (Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at IMT Ghaziabad and IIFT Delhi) and tracking asteroids.
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