Vinay Solanki

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India20 yrs 1 mo experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 20+ years in electronics and IoT industries
  • CBO driving India's electronics infrastructure growth
  • Author and mentor promoting technology democratization
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in the Electronics and IoT sectors with a focus on business strategy and growth.

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Skills

Core Skills

Business StrategyLeadershipInvestment Advisory Services

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesBusiness AnalysisC++CRMCommunity BuildingConsultingCorporate ManagementCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Digital StrategyFinancial AdvisoryFixed IncomeGlobal SourcingGo-to-Market StrategyGo-to-market StrategyInformation Technology

About

With 20+ years of experience in building and scaling businesses across electronics, IoT, and deep tech, I thrive at the intersection of technology and growth. Currently, as CBO at Elecbits, I’m driving initiatives to strengthen India’s digital and physical infrastructure for the electronics industry and leading the development of next-gen box-build solutions. My journey includes shaping business strategy and accelerating growth at leaders such as Goldman Sachs, Bharti Airtel, Lenovo and others. Beyond corporate leadership, I am an author, angel investor, and mentor, passionate about democratizing technology knowledge and nurturing a culture of innovation aligned with India’s growth story. I am deeply committed to a future where we build, innovate, and lead from India for the world.

Experience

Elecbits

2 roles

Chief Business Officer

Promoted

Sep 2025Present · 6 mos

  • Elecbits is building India’s digital and physical infrastructure for the electronics industry and end-to-end electronics development and manufacturing solutions.
  • Leading the company's overall business strategy and growth initiatives through key partnerships and market expansion for the company's next phase of growth.
  • Focused on building the future of electronics with a mission to make India self-reliant and a world-class manufacturing hub.
Digital StrategySales OperationsGo-to-Market StrategyOperations ManagementCorporate ManagementBusiness Strategy+1

Strategic Advisory

Jan 2020Aug 2025 · 5 yrs 7 mos

  • Advisory role to support Elecbits, a fast growing startup in the electronics domain.

Cureable

Investment Advisor

Aug 2024Present · 1 yr 7 mos · India · Remote

  • Led fundraising efforts to secure the first round of angel investment for Cureable.
Investment Advisory ServicesFinancial Advisory

Nash tech labs

Business Head

Nov 2023Aug 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • NASH is a 50+ years old group with multiple businesses from sheet metal (NASH Industries), energy & batteries (NASH Energy), and Nash Tech Labs, which focuses on new age digital product and services portfolio spanning across domains such as Banking, IT, Defence, Medical, Automotive, Power Generation, Green Energy and Consumer Electronics.
  • With HQ in Silicon Valley of India (Bangalore), we are present in 15+ facilities across India, USA, and Japan. Our 3000+ workforce spans manufacturing, supply chain, R&D, business development, and operations.
  • Responsible for driving business strategy, sales, marketing, product roadmap, and geographical expansion with a focus on offering our customers full-scale engineering services from design to supply chain. We have 150+ R&D engineers to support your solution requirements for innovation in hardware, firmware, software, analytics, and integration.

Spacefields

Angel Investor

Oct 2023Present · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • Angel Investor in the first round.

Napino digital solutions

2 roles

Business Unit Head

Aug 2022Nov 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos

Business StrategyManagementLeadershipMarketingProduct Launch

GM & Business Head

Aug 2020Aug 2022 · 2 yrs

  • Responsible to establish and manage Digital Solutions BU at Napino with focus on offering services such as EMS, Designing, Product Development and E2E solutions across industry segments and verticals globally as well adopt digital transformation technology within Napino.
  • Napino is one of the largest electronics design & manufacturing company in India with 5000+ employees having 12 SMT and 14 assembly lines. We offer design, manufacturing, testing, value engineering services for IoT and electronics products. With 23+ years’ experience and 25+ digital products for global clients we can meet any scale and complexity

Lenovo

Head - IoT (APAC)

Oct 2018Jul 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos · India

  • Responsible to drive Lenovo's IoT Business in the Asia Pacific (including Japan) with the focus to help customer adopt IoT at scale with an end to end solution offering covering software, hardware and services. Open to partner with startups and mid size ISV having a proven solution in verticals such as Smart Building, Smart Retail, Smart Workplace, etc.

Aeris communications

Director - Strategic Market Development (IoT/M2M)

Aug 2017Oct 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • Aeris, a pioneer in IoT/M2M is at the forefront of innovation in IoT. HQ in Silicon Valley with presence around the world. Built from the ground up for IoT and road-tested at scale, Aeris IoT Services are based on the broadest technology stack in the industry, spanning connectivity up to vertical solutions, powering critical projects across automotive, transportation, energy, retail, healthcare, insurance and more.
  • I am responsible to build IoT strategy and identify strategic market opportunities and partnerships with focus on the global markets and verticals such as automotive, energy, people monitoring, fleet mgmt, insurance, etc. covering USA, Europe, SEA and India.

Iot ncr

Founder (worlds 3rd largest IoT community)

Nov 2015Present · 10 yrs 4 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • IOT NCR is an open community run as a not-for-profit, focused on spreading knowledge on IoT and Digital technologies in the capital region of India. One of the fastest growing platform (8000+ members) comprising of students, startups, professionals and hobbyist. Come join us and begin your journey to the connected world. Webite: http://iotncr.org/.
  • Our vision is to spread knowledge at almost no-cost to you and become TATA trust of technology learning and development

Airtel

Business Lead - IoT, WiFi and Strategic Alliances

Apr 2015Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • Bharti Airtel, is India's leading telecom player and worlds 3rd largest in terms of subscriber base with multiple product lines. I was responsible to generate, drive and explore business opportunities in the domain of IoT/M2M for Bharti Airtel and create strategy on how to run this business unit. Focus on the India market covering areas such as smart cities, asset tracking, connected cars, connected livings and others.
  • Also driving penetration of "Airtel Hangout" and Airtel WiFi to accelerate Airtel's WiFi business pan India and briefly ran mobile money fraud and risk management for India and 17 countries across Africa.
  • Key member responsible to forge partnership between Airtel and Facebook to deploy WiFi pan India with an estimated 22000 hotspots.

Goldman sachs

Vice President Technology

Apr 2006Mar 2014 · 7 yrs 11 mos · NYC

  • Managing securities franchise team, which supports interest rate trading desk covering various products such as treasuries, inflation, STRIPS, agencies, corporate bonds and swaps. Gather requirements, prioritize projects and manage expectations to support risk management, PNL, trade booking and downstream flows.

Tata consultancy services

Assistant Systems Engineer

May 2003Jul 2004 · 1 yr 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Software analysts developing web based and middleware applications using J2EE, Web Methods and wide range of web technologies for GE Energy

Education

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Jan 2014Jan 2015

ESCP Business School

International Immersion Program — European Business Management

Jan 2014Jan 2014

Binghamton University

Master — Computer Science

Jan 2004Jan 2006

University of Mumbai

B.E — Computer Engineering

Jan 1998Jan 2002

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