Mr. Venkatesh R.

Venkatesh R is Managing Director & Director Energy Business, Wärtsilä in India. Venkatesh has 30 years of experience in the Marine and Energy sectors. During his career in Wärtsilä, he has worked in India, Singapore and Finland managing strategic roles having value adding experiences in a variety of functions like Business Strategy, Project Management, Operational Development, QEHS etc. In his latest role, he has been Area Director for Middle East Asia based in Singapore. Within his role in Wärtsilä India, Venkatesh is responsible to enhance India’s market leadership with innovative life cycle solutions and accelerating the Renewables and Decarbonisation journey, propelling the business to greater heights.

Venkatesh believes a healthy work-life balance is a pre-requisite to good health and also best possible way to contribute whole-heartedly to the work one undertakes. He encourages his fellow colleagues to spread this within their teams as also practice this themselves.

Venkatesh graduated with a Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from University of Calicut and a management degree in operations and marketing from University of Mumbai.