About Kris Nair
Kris Nair is a Managing Partner at Opdrage Venture Partners, a New Delhi based Mentor Capitalist practice comprised of progressive minded investors, business service providers, marketing gurus, and seasoned business executives. Opdrage works with early stage ventures and corporate spin offs to build the plans, find the people and line up the capital necessary for achieving rapid growth.
He’s an Advisor to the Indian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association, umbrella organization for the venture capital & private equity funds/firms in India. He’s also a business mentor at National Entrepreneurship Network, working to inspire, educate and support the next generation of high-growth entrepreneurs in India.
He’s an angel investor and assists or serves on the boards of a number of early stage companies including DP, A2W, VenOS Inc., Innoz, Highlander, Pictualize, Cubicleone Inc. and Green Venture Camp.
Before conceptualizing Opdrage, Mr. Nair was heading the Corporate Strategy and Development at Satellier Inc. where he helped ENR Top 500 Engineering Companies in engineering work share advisory and transition strategy. He was the part of & worked with the founding team and the investors in creating and executing firm strategy and managing a P&L more than USD 10 million. He Co-founded more than 11 strategic business units in Satellier and managed the Building information Modeling and Engineering Design verticals. Passionate about sales and marketing, he worked with the leadership team in expanding the business beyond United States; to Europe, Middle East and Australia. He was instrumental in Satellier’s business development strategy and global market entry & pricing strategy. He drafted firm’s India strategy to focus on taping India’s construction market. He worked on diversified programs including market innovation, program management, product management, sales and M&A. Satellier is an Indian Angel Network and Sequoia Capital portfolio.
Earlier, he spend many years as a market analyst and management consultant and counseled CEOs and Boards of leading global companies in outsourcing, software, and technology sectors on broad-ranging business issues including corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, and business turnaround.
Previously, Kris Nair Co-Founded two companies, Navigator Media Intelligence and IMI Consulting. He exited both the companies in 3 years time with 150X returns. As an active researcher of Fundamental Leadership, he spends 7 years in voluntarily military training and was one of the Tops 1% cadets of the National Cadet Corps, India.
Kris Nair earned his BS Applied Physics from University of Kerala, Executive Masters in Management from Durham Business School and attended Management Program from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He learned the advanced lessons of leadership from Indian Military Academy.
The main goal, he says, is to help institutionalize how-to knowledge of entrepreneurialism that he and others have accumulated the hard way.
In his free time, Kris jump into philosophy of randomness and reads anything non-fiction. He’s been trying hard to learn more about Complexity Economics and its relationship with Theoretical Physics. The main goal, he says, is to help institutionalize how-to knowledge of entrepreneurialism that he and others have accumulated the hard way.
