Nikhil Vadhavkar
CEO & Co-Founder, Raptor Maps
Nikhil Vadhavkar is the CEO and co-founder of Raptor Maps. Raptor Maps is an operating system for utility-scale solar portfolios to increase asset performance, enable automation, and mitigate risk. Nikhil holds a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins, an M.S. in Engineering Management from Johns Hopkins University, and spent five years in graduate school at MIT deploying robotics for the Gates Foundation and building in silico space suit simulations for NASA. Nikhil has eight years of experience in the solar industry, primarily interfacing with utilities, infrastructure owners, builders, and operators.