Akilur Rahman

Rajesh Rathi

Chairman, GRIDsentry

After working in the USA and Japan for multinational companies in the early years Rajesh turned to self-employment in 1990. He has been working in the domains of INDUSTRIAL AND POWER AUTOMATION. as a serial entrepreneur. Rajesh leads CI group (CIG) of companies that have operations in above domains in India and the USA. Between these two delivery hubs the CIG addresses global markets.

Rajesh is deeply involved in GRIDsentry, a Powergrid Cybersecurity Startup, as one of the founders. Rajesh has years of global business exposure to the emerging OT cybersecurity threat. In GRIDsentry, he is combining it with the innovations in cybersecurity of power systems championed by Dr. Devika Jay, through her 7 years of experience in Powergrid. Both the founders are alumni of IIT Madras.

Cyber-attacks on critical cyber physical infrastructure are being inflicted with increasing frequency in the recent years. In the current geopolitical environment even the state players are suspected to be behind such intrusions. GRIDsentry has embarked on the ambitious path of developing a suite of tools that will keep the critical power infrastructure from being disrupted by the nefarious elements.