Team

Dr. Ram Nidumolu, Founder and CEO
Ram has more than 20 years of experience in strategy and execution consulting and research with enterprises. He has been a pioneer in studying major business trends such as corporate sustainability, the offshore outsourcing of business services, the use of technology for international development, and the adoption of new business models.  Ram is currently the founder and CEO of InnovaStrat, Inc., an innovation and strategy research and advisory services firm that founded the Low Carbon Enterprise initiative.   He was previously the research director of the Corporate Eco Forum, an organization consisting of 60 of the world’s largest Global 500 corporations. Ram conducted groundbreaking research on the next practices related to sustainability, innovation and business strategy among the leading innovators in the world.   He was previously the founder and CEO of a software services startup that provided CRM solutions to the high tech industry.  Ram was also a faculty member at the business schools of leading US universities for almost a decade. He received his Ph.D. in Management at the Anderson Business School at UCLA.  Ram can be reached at ram@innovastrat.com.
 
Kathy Kelly, Vice President, Services
Kathy brings over twenty five years of experience to program management, group collaboration and cross-cultural coordination. Her expertise includes the business leverage of real-time collaboration technologies by enterprises in the low-carbon economy. She was previously the co-founder and principal at Productive Teamwork, International, a consulting group that specializes in group collaboration processes and technologies. Prior experience includes Gartner, Inc, the leading technology research firm in the world, where she managed Best Practices groups for Fortune 500 executives.  She can be reached at kathy@innovastrat.com.
 
Kevin Bell, Chief Analyst, Low Carbon Research
Kevin Bell has over twenty years experience in energy resource policy and energy-related innovation, working in a staff and consulting capacity in the public, private, and non-profit sectors as a researcher, regulator, and advocate of next-generation energy technologies. His expertise includes the design and implementation of energy and carbon models and public policies for enabling the low-carbon economy. He is the former CEO of a successful venture that developed a new generation of educational tools and technologies for teaching science. He received his Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He can be reached at kevinbell@converger.com.