Directors & Management Team

Kannan Lakshminarayan, Co-founder & Advisor – Mechatronics – Kannan is a “parallel” entrepreneur and award winning innovator. He is also the Founder & CTO of Vortex and Managing Trustee of Fractal Foundation. Kannan has a track-record of successful development and commercialisation of customized solutions in the domain of electro-mechanical engineering, particularly for contexts that are price-sensitive and demand high reliability. He engages widely with grass-root level organizations and NGOs working with rural poor on sustainable solutions that improve quality of life, from whom he draws inspiration for pioneering new solutions that hold the promise of scalable impact.

Sabarinath C Nair, CEO

Sabari started working on deeptech at the start of his career, and moved to technology marketing and product management at Vortex, the world’s pioneer in energy efficient ATMs.

Together with Kannan Lakshminarayan (Founder of Vortex and serial inventor in mechatronics space), he founded Skillveri to solve the skillgap problems (lack of a trustable score for hands-on skills, and scalable methods to train), and to use XR and analytics to provide error-free dexterity to manufacturing industry.

After starting up at IIT Madras, Skillveri has become the world’s leading player in the XR multi-skill simulation space, and has won many awards including the National Innovations for Skills Challenge of NSDC, Ministry of Skill Development, Govt of India.

He is also on the Prime Minister’s Champions of Change panel on EdTech & Skills.

Manu Iyer – Strategist

Manu is an experienced strategist and early-stage investor who has backed multiple deep-tech startups through Bluehill Capital, where he is the Managing Partner. He holds an MBA in Finance & Strategy from Duke University Fuqua School of Business, and BTech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras.

Rejitha R Nair – GM – Software

Rejitha heads the software development at Skillveri’s India headquarters in Chennai. She has been associated with Skillveri since its inception, initially working with the software team before taking on bigger operations role. She brings a total experience of 17 years across different roles in technology and management. Prior to working with Skillveri, Rejitha was an officer at State Bank of India, and a software developer at Fractal Foundation and 3i-infotech.

Deepa Umesh – Creative Head

Deepa Umesh heads the Creative team at Skillveri. A multimedia professional with post- graduation in media studies. She is backed by over 24 years of expertise spanning in advertising, media, design and sports with a particular focus on Metaverse and XR technologies. She has worked with clients across the globe. She is passionate about introducing young minds to industry 4.0 along with mainstream education.