Hydrogen Transportation is the next Step to Take to Slow Down Climate Change with Rahgu Kilambi

In today's podcast Melanie Boylan spoke with Raghu Kilambi, CEO of PowerTap and Technology Entrepreneur and Investor.  Raghu discussed what steps were needed to transform the huge Carbon Footprint that current trucks are creating using diesel.  Hear about the plans of PowerTap to increase awareness and build a network that will make it easier to make this endeavour possible.

Raghu Kilambi is an experienced investor and entrepreneur with over 25 years of global business experience in public and private investments, building businesses and creating shareholder value. He has raised over $1 billion of equity and debt capital for private and public companies and been involved in many M&A acquisitions and exits. Raghu’s experience includes operational management, financial  reporting, corporate governance corporate finance, public offerings, strategic acquisitions and investments, international business  development, merchant banking and corporate restructuring in sectors  including technology, telecom and mobile.

Most recently, Raghu was Vice Chairman & CFO of California-based ConversionPoint (e-Commerce software/services) which was sold in 2  M&A exits in late 2019 and early 2020 after filing a Nasdaq IPO prospectus for an Oppenheimer-led IPO in 2019.

In addition, Raghu was previously the Co-Founder, CFO and Chief Strategy Officer of a leading VC-backed first generation application hosting  company that grew from startup to $140 million in annual revenues and a peak Nasdaq market capitalization of over US $2 billion.

Raghu has also been an investor in companies that were acquired by Yahoo,  eBay and CGI. He graduated with Great Distinction with a Bachelor of  Commerce and a Graduate Diploma in Public Accounting from McGill University, and qualified as a Canadian Chartered Accountant (inactive)

PowerTap is leading the charge to build out cost-effective hydrogen fueling infrastructure through its environmentally friendly intellectual  property, product design for the modularized and lowest tier production cost of hydrogen and launch plan. PowerTap technology-based hydrogen fueling stations are located in private enterprises and public stations (near LAX airport) in California, Texas, Massachusetts, and Maryland.  Additional information about PowerTap may be found at its website at http://www.powertapfuels.com.