Santosh Gurunath
Founder H2 Carbon Zero & Umagine Hydrogen Pvt. Ltd.
Bio
Santosh Gurunath has 15+ years of experience across different sectors within the energy landscape – oil & gas, solar energy, EV infrastructure and hydrogen. A chemical engineering graduate from NIT Calicut, India and TU Delft, Netherlands, he has spent his career across the industry with Shell, management consulting with McKinsey and BCG; and as a start-up founder of Umagine since 2019. He has as part of his start-up executed 100+ projects across rooftop solar, EV charging and hydrogen in the Netherlands and India.
Since 2022, he and his company Umagine have been primarily focusing on accelerating the low-carbon hydrogen economy by providing advisory services across strategy, policy, technology, engineering, execution and O&M for governments, PSUs and industry in India and abroad, and they aim to play an instrumental role in developing the hydrogen ecosystem in India and globally.
As part of their brand H2 Carbon Zero (H2C0) they have been commercializing their hydrogen fuel cells for stationary power generation applications based on their in-house technology development, with multiple deployments for Indian PSUs, research institutions and industry. Their systems now range from portable units to integrated hydrogen power plants, including installations in demanding high-altitude conditions and end-to-end EPC delivery.