Nirmal Kundu has an M. Tech (Electronics & Telecommunications), MBA (Operations & HR), and Ph. D in Industrial Engineering and Management and is a Certified Independent Director. He has 28 years of in-depth experience in Telecom, Energy Metering, Renewable Energy, Railway equipment manufacturing and automotive industry in all domains of R&D, Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Projects, Vendor Development, and Maintenance etc. and worked as Technical Advisor (Autometers Alliance Ltd) and Senior Vice President – Technology (Powerwind Ltd.).
He has worked closely with organisations like Alcatel (France), Ericsson (Sweden), SIEMENS (Belgium), Schlumberger (Singapore) DEIF (Denmark), Vestas (Denmark), SKF (Germany), Ushin (Japan), Nexgen (Korea), Ming Yang (China) etc. regarding Technology Sourcing or Technology Transfer.
He was an Associate Professor for nine years in different universities in India, acted as Head of Research and IIIE (Innovation, Incubation, IPR and Entrepreneurship) cell, Editor of University journal, core member of approval and accreditation team, Syllabus committee, and Central Resource Cell. He is also a Visiting Professor of UTEL, Mexico and Visiting Research Fellow of Indian Institute of Sustainable Development.