Uday Khemka
Uday is Vice Chairman of the SUN Group and is the Managing Trustee of his family’s charitable trusts, the Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation and the Nabha Foundation. He is on the advisory and governing boards of business schools in Europe and Asia, and the investment committees and boards of trustees of investment funds in the US, Europe, and Asia. After working as a banker at Credit Suisse First Boston and Morgan Stanley, he returned to his family’s business where he has helped build and lead the Group’s Asset Management, Private Equity, and Venture Capital business in India, Russia, Europe, and the US. He has also led SUN’s entry into the Indian real estate and information technology sectors. In addition, he is deeply involved in the Group’s brewing, natural resource, and energy sector activities. His passion for new energy (including distributed renewable energy, energy storage, and electric mobility) led him to set up SUN New Energy Holdings to form SUN Mobility.
Uday has taken an active role in building his family’s diverse philanthropic activities. Uday’s community interests include his founding and chairmanship of Youthreach, a New Delhi-based non-profit organization founded in 1997. Uday Khemka is an ardent advocate of new and renewable energy and Climate Action. He has been elected a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Educated at Eton College, he received his undergraduate and Masters degrees at Cambridge University where his thesis was on Mahatma Gandhi’s ethical and political philosophy. He received an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School (Baker Scholar).