ciso@rishihood.edu.in

Prof. Ravinder Pal Singh

Chief Innovation & Strategy Officer

Professor Ravinder Pal Singh (Ravi) is a Harvard Alumnus, Award-Winning Technologist, Rescue Pilot, Angel Investor, and Global speaker, with several hundred global recognitions and patents. Ravi has been acknowledged as the world’s top 10 Robotics Designer, the #1 Artificial Intelligence Leader in Asia, and recognised as one of the world’s top 25 CIOs. Ravi is active in India, the USA, Singapore, Scotland, Mexico, and Africa through advisory, co-creation, hackathons, and innovation funding to create mass entrepreneurship at the grassroots level across rural, towns and cities. In 2021, he joined Rishihood University as Chief Innovation & Strategy Officer to propel impact-oriented initiatives and launch the School of Entrepreneurship, modelled on the tenets of compassionate capitalism.

With more than a decade of experience as an investor, he has mentored and managed many successes, with a net portfolio gain of over 22X ROI. Ravi continues to serve various international agencies by flying for several hundred hours, as a rescue pilot, involved in relief during COVID, floods and earthquakes. In his corporate avatar, Ravi has also been a changemaker and C-level leader, Innovator, and creative engineer associated with global institutions such as Arthur Andersen, Wipro, Microsoft, Accenture, AirWorks Group, and Tata Singapore Airlines, to name a few.

His impactful body of work in the areas of Robotics, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Satellites, Intelligent Networks, Industrial Cloud, Adaptive manufacturing, and Cognitive computing has unlocked value across 5 continents by helping various governments towards fiscal prudence & citizen services, while simultaneously encouraging compassionate capitalism partnering with brands and institutions like Nike, Micron Technologies, Weyerhaeuser, Bestbuy, Albertsons, Carrefour, Cognizant, General Electric (GE), among others.