Prasad Vaidya
Prasad Vaidya is the Faculty Director of the Designing High Performance Buildings for Net Zero Programme.
Director of Solar Decathlon India, he is a LEED Fellow and has worked on more than 150 HPBs across India, South Korea, the UAE and the U.S. in a career spanning over 30 years. Prasad has been a Professor and Area Chair for Building Energy Performance at CEPT University, a Principal at The Weidt Group, and a member of the Technical Resources Group for the Clinton Climate Initiative.
Deepa Parekh
Deepa Parekh is an architect and building science professional and has conducted more than 80 professional training programmes covering over 6,000 learners on building science concepts, simulation skills, and sustainability strategies. She serves as a faculty member at CEPT University and is an ECBC Master Trainer.
Rohan Parikh
Rohan Parikh steered the design and execution of Infosys’ high performance campuses in India and China while managing goals of carbon neutral water positive and zero waste to the landfills, overseeing the construction of over 14 million sq. ft. of HPBs, achieving 60 per cent greater efficiency and saving more than USD 100 million in electricity costs. Rohan has also advised major corporations such as Walmart India and UPL on net-zero energy strategies.
Sandhya Patil
Sandhya Patil is a sustainability expert with over 20 years of experience, specialising in climate-adaptive design, green building programmes, and energy-efficient concepts like high-performance, net-zero, and grid-interactive building designs. She has successfully managed over 100 projects across both public and private sectors, encompassing a wide range of building typologies.
Geetha Krishnan
Geetha Krishnan has more than 30 years of experience across multiple sectors — advertising, online learning, entrepreneurship development, and management education and professional development — in various senior management and leadership capacities. His particular areas of research and teaching interest are entrepreneurship (especially women entrepreneurship), social entrepreneurship and developing an entrepreneurial mindset.