Manoj Kumar Upadhyay, Founder, Chairman and Managing Director of ACME Group is responsible for strategic growth and expansion of the company in India and abroad. He has over 18 years of experience in the power and telecom sectors.
Earlier, as research engineer and, later, as technical head with the telecom power company, Benning Gmbh, Germany, Upadhyay successfully led the modification and adaptation of several critical power systems to suit Indian requirements. He started Adhunik Power Systems in 1999, to develop lightning surge protection systems for telecom sites. In 2003, he founded ACME Cleantech Solutions (Formally ACME Tele Power) to provide innovative, energy efficient, environment-friendly products for passive telecom infrastructure.
He is the inventor of five patented product innovations and processes in this area.
As a professional entrepreneur, since 2003, he is progressively establishing a high quality organisation with a vision of "Being the global benchmark for green energy solutions" and mission of "Making the ‘Green Approach’ profitable". Under his leadership, ACME has steadily evolved as an innovation driven technology company with diversified businesses promoting sustainable growth.
He is the recipient of several eminent awards, distinctions and citations for his indomitable spirit of enterprise and innovation. These include the Ernst & Young ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ Award, 2007, in the ‘Start-Up’ category, the V&D100 ‘Technovator of the Year’ Award, 2008 and "Dare" Inspiring Entrepreneurs 2011. The philosophy of the company has been to envision and develop technologies that not only make great economic sense in terms of acceptability, efficiencies and return on investment, but also have a lasting impact on social well-being.
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