The Husk Power Team
Gyanesh Pandey
CEO & CTO / Co-Founder
Native of Bihar, India. Previous experience with International Rectifiers (Sr. Project Manager – high voltage semiconductors). BS, Electrical Engineering, IIT Varanasi. MS, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Leads the firm’s initiatives on the ground in India.
Charles W. (Chip) Ransler, IV
Chief Strategy Officer / Co-Founder
Chip was most recently co-founder and CEO of Topik Solutions, Inc. a software firm. BA, University of Virginia. MBA, Darden '09.

Received Batten Foundation Entrepreneurial Scholarship for the Darden School of Business. He is currently leading the business strategy for the firm.
Manoj Sinha
Co-Founder
Native of Bihar, India. Previous experience with Intel as a microprocessor designer leading teams of 15 designers. Holds 10 U.S. patents (5 granted, 5 pending). BS, IIT Varanasi, Electrical Engineering, MS UMass Amherst. MBA, Darden ’09. (Genovese Fellow)

Ratnesh Yadav
COO / Co-Founder
Native of Bihar, India. Ratnesh is a serial entrepreneur from Patna, India.

BA Delhi University, 1997. On ground in India. Ratnesh is in charge of all Husk Power upstream operations.