Bhaktha Keshavachar
Bhaktha Keshavachar is an Indian deep-tech entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of Chara Technologies. He works on rare-earth-free electric motors, power electronics and manufacturing technologies for electric mobility and industrial systems. Bhaktha spent many years at Intel before co-founding Ezetap, where he helped build payment hardware and technology that was later acquired by Razorpay. He then co-founded Chara Technologies in 2019 with Mahalingam Koushik and Ravi Prasad to build electric motors that reduce dependence on permanent magnets and rare-earth materials.