Suresh is a dynamic former GE executive-turned-entrepreneur who exemplifies pragmatic business leadership, technology insights, and deep understanding of commercializing innovations for lasting global impact and transformational economic growth.
At the core of his career, and life-long passion lies his proven hands-on ability to build integrated innovation ecosystems for economic growth with sustainability (“Vision-to-Impact”) including alignment with community, policies, culture, and capital. It results in a futuristic community or a city where people can live, work, recreate, innovate, and commercialize to unleash their full potential.
Always open to learning, Suresh has consistently demonstrated extreme adaptability to successfully deliver outstanding results in a wide variety of businesses, industry, and domains; be it in a large Fortune 500 corporation, a startup, a non-profit, R&D or in a university anywhere in the world.
Suresh’s belief that ‘life is the final arbiter’ motivates him to seamlessly weave all aspects of learnings into a holistic tapestry for a meaningful societal impact. All along, he shared this insightful journey through a series of peer-reviewed papers, op-eds, talks, and authored several seminal business books, and scholarly publications.
Having grown up in top global industry and technology R&D organizations like GE Global Research, GE Energy, British Aerospace, NASA Langley, and Georgia Institute of Technology; Suresh successfully ran major Operations, led P&Ls, and built Startups. He uniquely demonstrates a 3600 understanding of what it takes to commercialize ‘deep tech’ from an industrial or university R&D system to the marketplace. These include industrial, commercial real estate and digital technologies.
With the above-mentioned overarching passion, he founded Open Range Capital Partners (2018) and has significantly contributed to various large smart city or iHUB projects (each over 100s of million dollars), especially at Gainesville FL, Oklahoma City OK, Atlanta GA, Clarksville (Southern Indiana) and Louisville KY.
Earlier in the 1990s, he was a core member of the pioneering GE globalization team that paved the way and laid the foundation of today’s flourishing outsourcing and manufacturing industry in India, China, Mexico, Canada and eastern Europe.
