Gadhadar ReddyFounder

India - Bengaluru, Karnataka

Gadhadar Reddy is the CEO and founder of NoPo Nanotechnologies, a company that produces high-quality carbon nanotubes for various applications, especially in the space sector. He has over 12 years of experience in research and development, entrepreneurship, and innovation in the field of nanomaterials. He is a Chevening Scholar from the University of Oxford, a 35 under 35 in Space awardee, an India-France Young Leader, and a Singularity University alumnus.

His vision is to enable humanity to be a space faring species, by using carbon nanotubes as a key material that is light, strong, radiation resistant, and perfect for space. He has developed the NoPo HiPCO® process, a proprietary technology that produces carbon nanotubes continuously and efficiently. He has also launched CENCE™, a carbon nanotube enhanced carbon composite that offers superior performance and safety for composites. He has won several international competitions and recognition for his work, and has delivered a TEDx talk on the carbon age. He is passionate about solving global challenges with exponential technologies and creating a positive impact on the world.