Praveen Chakrapani Rao
Group CTO
SONA COMSTAR
Praveen Chakrapani Rao is the Group Chief Technology Officer of our Company. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore and a master’s degree in management systems from BITS Pilani. He has over 24 years of experience in Sona Comstar, starting with Visteon’s starter motor business that became Comstar, which merged into Sona Comstar. Prior to this role, he was leading the R&D team of our Motor Business in the Design and Development of Starters, Traction Motors, Controllers, Integrated Motor-Controllers, and Motor Modules. He was responsible for growing the R&D team and its capabilities in EV extending from Application and Systems Engineering, Advanced Engineering, Embedded Software, Hardware Development, Functional Safety, and Product Validation. Before joining our Company, he worked at Bosch, Ford, and Visteon in product engineering and business development.