Chaitanya Dora Surapureddy

 

Chaitanya Dora Surapureddy
Supplier Development & Growth Manager

Chaitanya handles the Finance and Government Affairs at Dhruva Space, a full-stack Space engineering company and the first private Space-Technology company in India. Chaitanya has previously worked with KPMG and Safe Water Network on strategy consulting and data science. He has also helped set up various entrepreneurial ventures in Austria and India. Chaitanya holds a Master’s degree in Physics and a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from BITS Pilani. He also holds a Master’s degree in Management from Emlyon Business School, France. Dhruva Space has been recognized twice by the Government of India, having been awarded the National Startup Award for its efforts in Satellite and Space Technology, and having been awarded the Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Telecom Excellence Award 2022 for the company’s work in the field of Satellite Communications. Chaitanya has also been featured in Fortune India’s 40 Under 40 in 2022 and in Forbes India DGEMS 200 for 2023. On 24 June 2022, Dhruva Space became one of the first private companies to receive authorization from IN-SPACe. The company has since completed three Space missions within 12 months; including the history-making Thybolt Mission, which saw the launch of India’s first two private satellites, Thybolt-1 and Thybolt-2, authorized by IN-SPACe, to be successfully deployed into orbit.