Pratap Nair

Pratap is one of the founding members of Ingenero, on its board and also serves as its President & CEO. At Ingenero, Pratap has played a key role in commercially validating the innovative concept of remote process engineering and process plant monitoring and support, beyond its initial formulation in 2002. He was instrumental in developing and applying the Digital Twin concept for Chemical Process Manufacturing, as a key enabler for Digitization in Process Manufacturing, utilizing advanced analytics and technologies like first principle based modeling, Machine Learning, AI, Smart data platforms, IIoT/P. Pratap was actively involved with the process of acquiring Ingenero’s customers in the US, Europe, Asia and the Middle East and in building the management and advisory teams in the US, Europe and India, since its inception, building Ingenero to its current level and continues to actively drive its growth. He was a key member on the Houston based development and project implementation team of one of the pioneering real time process optimization, data reconciliation and modeling systems for the process industry, in the late eighties. He was an early promoter of the simulation model based profit improvement program (PIP) and operational performance improvement (OPI) and the Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) initiatives for the process industry and has been on several panels at industry forums in the USA and Europe. Pratap’s corporate career prior to founding and running Ingenero, includes Business development, Coordinator of the management board, COO at Cadila, Founder Director of Profit Technologies Inc., Houston, VP at Chemshare Corporation, Houston. Pratap has a Ph.D in Chemical Engineering from Rice University, Houston, and a B.Tech also in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, where he graduated at the top of his class with an Institute medal.