SHAKEEL N. AVADHANY
Chief Executive Officer
Shakeel Avadhany is President, CEO, and co-founder of Levant Power
Corp.
Previously, he worked with MIT Prof. Yet-Ming Chiang, founder of A123 Systems, on the DARPA funded microbattery program for reconnaissance devices. Mr. Avadhany joined Lux Research in 2007 to survey the global energy landscape and perform due diligence on emerging cleantech solutions. As an avid drummer, Mr. Avadhany also performed research on the physics of drumming under MacArthur Fellow Prof. L. Mahadevan at Harvard University's Applied Math Lab.
Mr. Avadhany is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including "Innovator of the Year" by the Entrepreneur's Organization, 2009. He earned his S.B. degree in Materials Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Avadhany is a native of Silicon Valley and currently resides in Boston.