Ramya Swaminathan

Ramya is a seasoned entrepreneur in the energy and climate space. She is currently Co-Founder at Skanda Energy, which is an AI-native platform that makes energy project development simple. Prior to this, she led the spin-out of Malta from X, Google’s Moonshot Factory, raised multiple rounds of financing and led the company’s growth to a global pipeline and workforce as well as first offtake. She is also currently building Pragati Earth, an initiative committee to enabling climate-technology innovation in India.

 

She has significant policy expertise, having served as a member of the U.S. Secretary of Energy’s Electricity Advisory Committee, and as a Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) Ambassador for the US Department of Energy.

 

Before founding Malta, she was the CEO of Rye Development, a hydropower development firm that she grew to be the leading developer of new hydropower projects in the US. She expanded Rye’s platform into pumped hydro storage in a JV with National Grid. Previously, she was a public finance banker and senior managed more than $10 billion in financings.