Motivated by a desire to combat climate change, Chetan co-founded the REVA Electric Car Company, India's first electric car manufacturer, in 1994.

With a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering (University of Michigan) where he focused on solar electric vehicles, and a Master's in Mechanical Engineering (Stanford University) where he worked on hybrid electric vehicles, Chetan has over 20 years of experience in the development of solar, hybrid and electric vehicles in the U.S. and India. Prior to REVA, he worked for Amerigon Inc. (USA) and General Motors (USA). As a program manager at Amerigon, he was responsible for all electric vehicle programs and initiated the REVA project.

In 2009, Chetan was named by Business Week magazine as one of the top 50 most influential people in India, and at the 2010 AIMA Managing India Awards, he was named "Entrepreneur of the Year." He has also been amongst the select few to have been adjudged as a Young Global Leader (YGLs) for 2011 by The World Economic Forum, and in 2011, he received the India Business Icon Award from Entrepreneur CNBC TV18. At The Economist's annual event in London, in October 2011, the publication conferred Chetan Maini its 2011 'Innovation Award in Energy and the Environment' for his work on affordable electric vehicles.

Chetan also serves as a member of India's National Board on Electric Mobility (NBEM) formed by the Government of India's Ministry of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises. He is also the Chairman of the Personal Transporation Council, World Economic Forum. He currently holds patents in energy management systems for electric vehicles and has presented technical and keynote papers on electric vehicles globally. His papers have been published in several international journals.

R. Chandramouli has over 25 years of experience in sales, marketing and brand building in the automotive industry. A holder of a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Ahmedabad (1982-84), he began his career with Escorts Ltd, before joining TVS Motor Company in 1988.

He was associated with TVS Motor Company for nearly 20 years where he was closely involved with the TVS Scooty, India's first automatic scooter for women, and TVS Victor, India's first indigenously developed motorcycle. He helped position TVS Scooty as the 'First Love' of college girls in urban India and built the TVS Victor brand in India. Besides helping build a large network of 600 dealers and 2,000 service centres across India, Chandramouli was also closely involved in managing the transition of TVS-Suzuki Ltd (a joint venture of Suzuki Japan and TVS Motor Company) to TVS motors.

R. Chandramouli joined the REVA electric car company (now Mahindra REVA Electric Vehicles Pvt.Ltd.) in July 2008 as President - Sales and Marketing and was appointed as Chief of Operations in September 2010.

Under his leadership, the after-sales service has been reorganised and the company is orienting towards being an "insights, ideas and technology driven company" with four core areas of business (product development, technology licensing, manufacturing franchisee and mobility solutions).

Umesh Krishnappa is a Mechanical Engineer with MBA in Operations from Symbiosis University (Pune) and has more than 24+ years of experience in the Industry ranging from automotive and engineering design services to the Electronics Industry. Umesh started off his career as an R&D Engineer in 1988. He was the testing and project coordinator for the hugely successful Hero Honda bike - the 'CD 100 SS'. This was his start into the 'Product Creation Process'.

He participated in the first 'CMVR Program' in 1991 and that gave him the opportunity to work very closely with agencies like ARAI and VRDE. Umesh moved to Philips where he worked for more than 9 years handling the Quality and Product Creation portfolio and then Operations. During his tenure, he was one of the Top 20 performers and was declared as "Customer Champion" by the then Global President of Philips. He has also been the Global Auditor for Philips Process and Business Excellence. At Harita TVS Technologies (an Engineering Design Solution organisation catering to global automotive customers) he was instrumental in 3x revenue improvement and substantial quality improvement in delivery as the Global Delivery Head and later CTO.

In Tata Sasken Automotive Electronics, he was Vice President - Operations where he managed the Instrument Cluster and Telematics project for REVA's new car. He moved to Mahindra REVA Electric Vehicle Company in May 2009 and has been managing the Program and Process Management. In addition, he is also handling Validation, PED and Quality Functions. 'Reva Car Creation Process - RCCP' was initiated and implemented by Umesh & the team organisation for the new car programs (from concept to the realisation phase).

Umesh was also instrumental in leading the team to build the New Mahindra Reva IGBC Certified Green Plant. Umesh has written several technical papers and has been a member of various technical forums like IEC TC 65 / ETD 32, ASQ, SAE, ASQ etc. He has been a corporate faculty in training on key tools for Product Creation. In addition, Umesh contributes management articles to leading newspapers.

Ashish Tarte has more than 18 years of experience in the Indian Automobile Industry. A graduate in Mechanical Engineering (Pune University) and a Post Graduate in Business Management from Welingkar Institute Of Management (Mumbai), Ashish has held key management positions in companies like Mahindra & Mahindra (Automotive Sector) and International Cars & Motors Ltd. (ICML Sonalika Group). Earlier he was associated with M&M in the R&D Dept for almost 12 years and was part of many key projects such as Commander 650 DI, Armada NGCS, Bolero, Maxx, Marshal etc. He also made a significant contribution in many product design improvements from the vehicle engineering side on key M&M products.

Ashish moved to International Cars & Motors Ltd. (ICML) in 2005. He headed Research & Development, Vendor Development & Vendor Quality Control Dept. of ICML for more than 5 years. He also developed a new Multi-Utility Vehicle named Rhino Rx at ICML - from drawing board to launch.

Ashish has taken up the responsibility of ICML as a COO and was an Active Member of the Strategic Steering Committee of the Sonalika Group in 2008. Under his leadership, he successfully brought ICML into the Indian Automotive horizon and was responsible for the 5X growth of its revenue. During his tenure in ICML, Ashish headed many strategic projects of the Sonalika Group. He also headed a World SUV project for ICML working closely with Pininferina (Italy) and lead a strategic project for ICML - a proposed Joint Venture of ICML with one of the leading auto Companies in China.

Ashish rejoined Mahindra Group, in 2010, as a Head of Engineering & Development in Mahindra REVA. His area of responsibility is Design/Engineering & Development of all upcoming projects of Mahindra REVA.