Umesh Krishnappa

Umesh Krishnappa is the Chief Technology Officer for EV at Royal Enfield.

Umesh brings with him over 34 years of experience in Technical Sales & Marketing, New Product Development, Operations & Manufacturing Excellence, Business Excellence & Process management, and Design Process & Development.

Prior to this, Umesh has worked with Ola Electric where he was Sr. Vice President and Head of Vehicle Engineering & Technology and Manufacturing Engineering. He spearheaded the engineering and development of Ola S1 Pro in a record time of 10 months. He was also the Sr. Executive Vice President at Mahindra Electric and worked on the development of the very first car Reva in the year 2013.

Umesh holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration - Operations from Symbiosis, Pune, and is a qualified Mechanical engineer from SGSITS, Indore.