Nivruti Rai

CEO

Greater Delhi Area32 yrs 2 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

30+ years of global technical and business leadership experience.
Expert in building strong teams and grooming leaders.
Passionate about advancing India's technology ecosystem.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in the technology investment and semiconductor industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Investment StrategyGovernanceProject ManagementR&d ExecutionInnovationEngineering LeadershipAnalog And Mixed-signal Ip DevelopmentR&d Management

Other Skills

Capital AllocationCross-border InvestmentData AnalysisDeal ExecutionBusiness EnablementStrategic Ecosystem EngagementMachine LearningComputer VisionHardware DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentSemiconductorsProgram ManagementASICICCross-functional Team Leadership

About

A global leader with 30+ years of technical and business leadership experience in the US and India. Varied roles across engineering & research, innovation, and organizational management and investment . Focused on building strong teams and grooming leaders who can deliver on the global stage. Passionate about Indian technology ecosystem and bringing investment so we can usher in the next technology revolution for India and the world. Specialties: Innovation, Concept to Product, Silicon Design, Analog and mixed–signal IPs, Machine Learning/Computer vision Technologies, Developing and Leading global teams, Diversity & Inclusion in Technology and bringing in FII, FPI, Debt and Bonds.

Experience

32 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

29 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Invest india

MD and CEO

Jul 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · India · Hybrid

CEO & Managing Director | Invest India
Jul 2023 – Present
$10B in investment commitments. 70+ global firms engaged annually. Sovereign wealth, private equity, and strategic industrials across four continents — moved from interest to execution.
What I Built
India had a credibility gap no amount of promotion could close. Serious capital allocators needed benchmarked data, structured engagement, and institutional counterparties they could trust. I built that infrastructure.
∙ Governed capital allocation — redesigned India’s investment strategy from promotional to evidence-based, with sector-by-state competitiveness heatmaps and manufacturing cost benchmarks that survive a capital committee
∙ Deal execution discipline — an 18-month structured engagement framework that eliminated opacity from cross-border investment cycles. Milestones. Accountability. Conversion.
∙ Industrial strategy at scale — FDI vision translated into annual sector targets, zone-based industrial strategies, and codified site, land, and incentive frameworks
∙ Institutional build — recruited senior sector leadership, overhauled governance across HR, Finance, Legal and Procurement, and formalised the full investment lifecycle with hard performance metrics
Sectors: Advanced manufacturing · Semiconductors · Electric mobility · Clean energy · Aerospace & defence · Life sciences
Capital Networks: North America · Europe · East Asia · Middle East
Sustainable FDI follows institutional credibility. Everything above was built on that principle.
I don’t chase capital. I build the conditions that make capital inevitable.

Investment StrategyCapital AllocationGovernanceCross-border Investment

Intel corporation

6 roles

Vice President, Platform Engineering Group, Intel Corporation

Promoted

Feb 2016 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos

In addition to her role as Intel India General Manager, Nivruti led engineering teams across the United States, Costa Rica, Israel, Malaysia for developing innovative analog and mixed-signal Intellectual Property (IP) blocks and IP subsystems for Intel’s system-on-chip (SoC) products. She also managed the emerging technologies group in India developing Machine Learning and computer vision soft IPs.

Engineering LeadershipAnalog and Mixed-Signal IP DevelopmentMachine LearningComputer Vision

Senior Director, Chipset Engineering & IP Development Group Intel Corporation

Promoted

Sep 2005 – Feb 2016 · 10 yrs 5 mos

Managed R&D and engineering for teams across India, Malaysia and US; Hardware and Software development for differentiating IPs that go into all Computing platforms of Intel, from handheld devices to servers.

R&D ManagementHardware DevelopmentSoftware Development

Principal Engineer Circuit Technology Group DEG

Promoted

Apr 2002 – Sep 2005 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Circuit Technologist

Sep 1998 – Apr 2002 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Country Head Intel India, VP Intel Foundry Services, Intel Corporation

Promoted

Feb 1994 – Jul 2023 · 29 yrs 5 mos

Responsible for leading Intel India operations across R&D Execution, Innovation, Business Enablement and driving Strategic Ecosystem Engagements with government, academia and industry bodies for driving Intel India’s growth strategy.
Based in Bengaluru, she provides overall engineering and business unit leadership and leads operations for the site, drives innovation, cross-group efficiency and execution for engineering teams delivering global products and roadmaps. Along with this, she is responsible for talent development and grooming technologists and leaders for global responsibilities. Nivruti also actively works with the government at national and state levels, industry groups, startups, academia and research towards building a strong and vibrant technology ecosystem in India.
In addition, along with Intel Sales and Marketing Group she is responsible for growing business and strengthening customer/ecosystem relationships in India.
In her previous role as vice president in Intel’s Data Platforms Group (2017-2020), Nivruti was responsible for DPG India’s engineering and execution.

R&D ExecutionInnovationBusiness EnablementStrategic Ecosystem Engagement