Dr. Chinchure’s involvement with the corporate world spans 25 years; and I have direct and hands-on experience of working with organizations in areas such as research, technology, innovation, intellectual property, business strategy, venture investment, M&A, policy, industry-academia partnership, teaching, and social development.
He has worked with:
- One of the best industrial R&D companies in the world
- Large multinational and Indian companies, and a startup
- High-end technology product and services companies
- Different geographies in Asia, Europe, and North America
- Policymakers for the national and international population, as a member of the committees constituted by the government, industry bodies, global organizations
- The Office of Board of Director and Chairman of a Fortune 500 company
- Global leaders, including Nobel laureates,Thought Leaders, Management Gurus, Founders of successful global companies, and transformational leaders of social development
With Reliance Innovation Leadership Centre (RILC), Pune as Asst. Vice President-Innovations (May’08 to March’14)
- Reliance Innovation Leadership Centre (RILC), Pune was established to support the Reliance Innovation Council (RIC). The members of the innovation council include Nobel laureates, leading global professors and management gurus. Some of my key contributions at RILC include;
- Developed “best” and “next” transformational innovative practices and programs for the employees
- Identified and evaluated new business opportunities for Reliance Industries based on emerging and disruptive technologies
- Identified and assessed small and large companies for potential investment, JV and M&A
- Established and Led high performing Intellectual Property team to support IP needs of all businesses of Reliance Industries
- Developed IP strategy, policy, systems and processes for effective diffusion of IP within the organization
- Provided strategic IP support to various businesses, including, IP due diligence, technology evaluation, risk identification & mitigation, drafting, prosecution, opposition, portfolio management, contracts, agreements, etc.
- Developed strategic partnership with leading research institutes based in India and abroad
With Honeywell Technology Solutions, Bangalore as Manager-IP for Speciality Materials Business (June’06 to Apr’08)
- Identified potential technology areas, licensing, enforcement and innovation opportunities for Speciality Materials Business
- Conducted validity/invalidity studies, freedom to practice searches, and technology landscaping to support global businesses
- Established organizational performance indicators and benchmarking on IP activities with other companies
With Intellevate LLC (Part of CPA Group), Noida as Team Leader – Shared Services Team (Jan’05 to May’06)
- Successfully built and led a team of IP analysts involved in providing IP analytics services to over 20 global Law Firms and 5 fortune 50 companies in the world
- Executed over 100 IP projects and reviewed over 200 reports for their quality of search, analysis and presentation of results
- Provided IP search and analysis training to over 25 new recruits
- Part of the core team responsible for the expansion of the team strength from 5 to 30 within a span of one year
With GE’s John F. Welch Technology Centre, Bangalore as Lead Scientist (Nov’01 to Dec’ 04)
- Led a team of technologist to develop and evaluate new conductive bond paste for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) stack
- Developed a low cost and low degradation ferritic stainless steel for interconnects of SOFC
- Deposited metals and oxides on metallic alloys for improving oxidation resistance and conductivity by using sputtering, screen print, spin and dip coating techniques
- Established state-of-the-art electrical characterization facility to evaluate metals, semiconductors and oxides from room temperature to 900 deg. C.
With Kammerlingh Onnes Laboratory, University of Leiden, Netherlands as a Visiting Scientist (Jun’00-Oct’01)
- Developed high quality single and polycrystalline materials for Superconducting Reference Device to measure and calibrate temperature of cryostats between 1 Kelvin and 0.001 Kelvin. This device is currently being sold by a company “Hightech Development Leiden” which was developed as a part of international research program financially supported by the European Commission
- Initiated and led a new program to investigate novel properties of naturally occurring multi-layered inter-metallic compounds
- Successfully synthesized novel materials showing giant magneto-resistance (GMR), large switching effects and step like meta-magnetic transitions in naturally occurring multilayered compounds
With Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Ph.D. Scholar (Jan’92-Jun’00)
- In pursuit of identifying novel materials, discovered superconductivity in a new quaternary borocarbides
- Synthesized several inter-metallic and oxide compounds by using different techniques to understand their electronic and magnetic properties
- Developed a computational model and software to determine the effect of crystalline electric fields and magnetic exchange interaction on the physical properties of rare earth containing compounds
- Supervised part of the work of 2 Ph.D. students working in the condensed matter physics group at TIFR
