Sumit Chowdhury

Active Investor

FIDE - Digital Energy Grid - Global Deployment Ambassador at FIDE

Melbourne, Victoria

Sumit Chowdhury, FIDE - Digital Energy Grid - Global Deployment Ambassador at FIDE is an active investor based in Melbourne, Victoria. This profile covers what Sumit Chowdhury backs, at which stage, and how founders can reach out in 2026.

Dr. Sumit Chowdhury is the Founder & serves as Chief Executive Officer and President at GreenEarthX. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director and Chairman of Gaia (Mumbai). He is an Angel Investor. He served as Board Member at Hello Health. He is an entrepreneur, business leader and an international thought leader on telecom, electronics and information systems and solutions for Smart Cities. He is the Project Director for the Swachh Bharat Mission (PMU), Ministry of Urban Development, Govt. of India. He was the President of the Enterprise Business and CIO of Reliance Jio. Before that, he was a Vice President with IBM as Head of Consulting for the Telecom, Utilities and Entertainment industries. He was also the CIO of Reliance Communications, Partner of KPMG and Managing Director and CEO of BearingPoint in Australia. These roles have given him the opportunity to be recognized as one of the Top CIOs of the world. He has lived in India, the US, and Australia and worked on assignments worldwide managing industry professionals in large, hyper-growth companies. He has been recently appointed as the Chairman of the Smart Cities Expert Forum of the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce for the year. He is also a Professor of Smart Cities at Carnegie Mellon University. He is an invited International expert on Smart Cities at TM Forum and the Brussels Sustainable Development by TERI. An entrepreneur at heart, he has been mentoring, angel funding and incubating several start-up companies in diverse areas of India. He is an active industry speaker and authority on technology and management issues. He recently authored a career management book, 'Rules of the Game' published by Bloomsbury India. He works closely with several Universities in US and Australia where he is an adjunct professor. He has a B-Tech from IIT Kanpur and MS and a Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Management from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a multi-faceted marathon runner, cyclist, musician, and abstract artist.

Investor type: Angel
Stages: Pre SeedSeed
Invests in: FintechHealthcare & BiotechDigital Health & HealthTechSaaS & EnterpriseConsumer & RetailE-commerce & D2CDeveloper Tools & DataMobility & Logistics
Location: Melbourne, Victoria
Typical check: $150K
Past investments: 6

Notable investments

BearingPointHello Health (Clinics/Outpatient Services)Goodyear India LtdABM Knowledgeware LtdCarnegie Mellon University - Heinz College of Information Systems and Public PolicyBARC India

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