CURRICULUM VITAE Siddhartha Ghoshal 91 99307

71385/9818152171 E-mail:

sid_ghoshal@yahoo.co.uk

Personal Summary

An experienced and successful leader with proven track record of setting up and establishing new business and growing existing business. Highly motivated to guide and lead large teams to their potential and having the ability to identify and nurture talent in the organization. Has exhibited ability to deliver high performance teams for the organizations. Well networked at the decision making levels in government and financial agencies (including multilateral institutions like World Bank, Asian Development Bank, AFD etc) as well as in the industry.Delivered key business results for highly acclaimed global companies for over a decade.

Areas of Expertise

Business Management and Business Development

Strategy and Business consultancy for renewables industry

Strategic Planning and execution

Commercial Operations

Strategic Alliance

People Management and handling Cross Functional teams

Looking forward to

Lead business management for renewables energy Set and achieve new challenges in business numbers Lead medium to large teams to next level of business growth Drive strategic business alliances

Educational Qualifications

Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management (PGDBM) from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (March 2000)

Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical), Jalpaiguri Govt. Engineering College, Jalpaiguri (August 1992).

Marco Polo Leadership Course, London Business School (October 2013).

Work Experience

Consulting work for Renewables Sector (July 2015- Present)Location: Pune

Associate Director with Dansden Consulting Pvt. Ltd. And Vice President Business Development with Oorjan Cleantech Pvt. Ltd.

Advising budding organizations in India and aspiring MNCs who are planning to enter India market on organization set-up, supply chain development, connecting with Ministry and policy makers.

Worked with a couple of US and Spanish MNCs in PV Solar space since 2015 in advisory consulting role

Advising and leading the business development strategy for Oorjan Cleantech Pvt. Ltd. (a Mumbai based solar energy company)

AREVA Solar India Pvt. Ltd. (May 2012 – Dec 2014)Location:Mumbai

Managing Director, India with additional responsibility for Business Development in Southern Africa

- Business size: Implemented a 300M USD project in India- first of its kind and the largest in the world; Second project of similar size to be executed. Another 250M USD projects in different stages of commercial discussion with customers.

- People: 55 people in different functions (projects, finance, sales, commercials, supply chain, HR and admin). Lean organization put in place in last 2 years (from over 100 people) by changing business model with achievement of better profitability

- Responsible for achievement of order target, profitability and organic growth of the business in South Asia and Southern Africa

- Government relations, Sales, marketing, marketing communications, commercial proposals, application sale and strategic alliance organizations are reporting to this position

- Joined AREVA Solar as Director Business Development for India and South Asia region and based on the performance in first seven months, got promoted to take over Business Development leadership for Southern Africa as well in April 2013. In India, I extended the relationship with critical stakeholders like EPC companies and developer organizations and developed a mature relationship with policy makers and government functionaries both at federal and state level. In South Africa I established a strategic alliance with a local developer –Afridevo for participation in REIPP projects of DOE. Also obtained USTDA funding for development of the 100MW solar project under REIPP phase III. As India Managing Director I was responsible for all regulatory and compliance obligations of the legal entity and guided the project implementation of the 125MW project with Reliance Power which was completed in December 2014. This was the largest solar project under GOI National Solar Mission and largest solar project in Asia.

- I was reporting to Global VP of Business Development who was based in MountainView, USA and was reporting operationally to CEO of AREVA India (based in Mumbai) and Global CEO of AREVA Solar who was based in Paris. The entire India team was operationally and functionally reporting to my position.

GE Energy (Dec 2005 - May 2012)

Director- Partnerships for entire GE Energy from November 2009 to May 2012

- Business size : 271M USD in 2011, 386M USD in 2010

- Was responsible for the development and maintenance of GE Energy’s EPC relationships, including strategy development, integrated account planning, opportunity identification, and value communication across the Energy portfolio.

- Maintained top management level relationships with key accounts in utilities and EPC companies

- Was a member of the leadership team of GE Energy (India) CEO and is a key contributor in all strategic business initiatives of GE Energy. Was functionally reporting to Global Head of Key Accounts Management of GE Energy and operationally reporting to President and CEO of GE Energy in India.

- Successfully concluded business alliance and consortium agreements with Punj Llyod, Lanco, L&T Construction for GE Energy. Developed key strategic relationship with Shapoorji Pallonji EPC for construction requirements.

Sales Leader (equivalent to Sales Director) of Optimization and Control business of GE Energy for India region (India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) between April 2007 to October 2009

- Business size: 50 MM USD in 2009 (grew from 12M USD between Apr 2007 to Nov 2009)

- People: 45 people in the business (presently 180)

- Was responsible for sales, orders, revenue, receivables and business management (Sales Leader was ex-officio Country Manager)

- Led different SWAT teams in for critical strategic business alliance deals

- Led and successfully closed first business alliance agreement between GE and L&T in India

- Successfully launched the DCS product line in India by setting up the entire business model and leading the initiative

Honeywell Automation India Ltd. (Nov 2003 - Nov 2005)

- Total business generated 100M USD

- Started as National Marketing Manager of systems (DCS) business in Power vertical

- Appointed as Application Leader- Advanced Power Solutions for all software solutions business for power sector in late 2004

- Worked out the strategic planning, pricing, and positioning strategies

- Moved into the role of Business Development Manager for the business in Asia-Pacific region in early 2005. Was responsible

for setting up the centre of excellence for the business and helped the business win breakthrough global projects in Saudi Arabia, Korea, and South Africa. was reporting to Asia-Pacific Head of Advnced Solutions business and the Centre of Excellence team with all key functions was reporting to me. I was based in Pune, India.

CESC LIMITED (1993- 2003)

- People: >150 in plant location. People varying from management staff to union worker

- Handled plant operations and maintenance with a good mix of technical and man-management responsibility

- Managed quality requirements and productivity goals

ACC BABCOCK LIMITED (1992-1993)

Special Career Achievements and certifications

Marco Polo Leadership Program from London Business School (nominated by AREVA) in 2013

Leadership Acceleration Program in 2011 (GE India top talent program)

Two levels of GE Crotonville Senior Management training

Recipient of Stock Options of GE in 2008 and 2009- one among select few globally

Recipient of GE Energy Global Sales Award for business growth in 2007- one of 10 recipients globally

Awarded with Global Reward for Leadership and Teamwork in GE for successful launch of DCS business and forging the business alliance with key partner

Regular invitee as speaker in forums like CII, FICCI, Power Gen- India and Central Asia, ARC Forum, World Renewable Energy Congress etc.

Member of FICCI Solar Task Force, USIBC and founding member of National Solar Federation of India

Represented French Industries in India in the Joint Working Group meeting of India-France Governments in 2013

Key speaker in the French delegation meeting with Tamil Nadu government in 2013 and 2014. Participated in similar meetings with state governments like Gujarat and Karnataka with French delegation under the leadership of Ambassador of France to India.

Considerable media presence in the renewable energy and energy space

Personal Particulars

Present Location : Pune

Father’s Name : Late Dr. D. N. Ghoshal

Date of Birth : 27th August, 1968

Languages Known : English, Hindi, French & Bengali

Marital Status : Married (wife is Associate Professor of Mathematics at IIT, Kharagpur). Only son studying in school.