Vishal is CEO and Managing Partner of Hydrogen Technology Ventures. Working closely with our strategic partners Vishal leads HTV’s investment efforts and advises our partners on strategy.
Vishal spent his career focused on transformative businesses as analyst, investor, advisor and operator. He founded and led the clean energy equity research practice for Lehman Brothers/Barclays Capital and was the top ranked equity analyst for 8 years. Vishal also founded and led the ESG investing practice for Deutsche Bank, well before ESG investing became mainstream and was a regular speaker at various sustainability roundtables and investment conferences. Prior to founding HTV, Vishal was a partner at Hudson Sustainable Investments, a private equity firm focused on clean energy sector.
Vishal has been a trusted advisor to several start-ups in the Cleantech sector. Throughout his Wall Street career, Vishal has been actively involved in more than 30 IPOs and secondary offerings. He has been quoted in numerous articles published by major media, including CNN, MSNBC, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. Vishal has received several nationally recognized awards for excellence in the field of clean energy sector and has worked closely with global and state governments in advising Clean Energy policies.
Vishal holds a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and an MBA from INSEAD, France.