Sanjay Srikanth Nekkanti

Bio

Sanjay Nekkanti is the CEO and founder of Dhruva Space, a full-stack Space-Engineering solutions provider. He has worked on small satellite programs and stratospheric experiments across Asia and Europe, of which notable ones include the SRMSAT mission in 2011, India’s first student nanosatellite project, and the 2013 Velox-P mission in Singapore.

Nekkanti has a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering from Sri Ramaswamy Memorial University, Chennai. He is also an EGIDE scholar, and has two Master’s degrees; one in Space Technology and the other in Spatial Techniques & Instrumentation from Europe, through the Erasmus Mundus SpaceMaster programme. Sanjay has been featured in Fortune India’s 40 Under 40 in 2022 and in Forbes India DGEMS 200 for 2023.