Sachin Patel is a licensed Professional Engineer with nearly two decades of experience building large power plants of over 2,500 MWs combined capacity, in different counties, utilizing conventional and renewable technologies. Sachin started his career as a field engineer with Enron and SNC Lavalin in southern US, worked as an energy investment banker at Merrill Lynch in New York and Finance Manager at First Wind, Boston, MA. Most recently, Sachin held the roles of a CEO, Solar Business at Reliance Power Limited, an Indian utility, where he led the development of one of India's first utility scale 40MW solar PV project and a 125 MW advanced technology solar thermal project. Prior to founding LastMile Energy, Sachin was a Director of US-based SunEdison, leading it's India wind development portfolio of ~300MWs.
Sachin serves as an Adjunct Faculty at Northeastern University's College of Engineering and holds a BS as well as an MS in engineering from Arizona State University and an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.