Gradiant expands India operations with new leadership, contracts
Gradiant named Hari Prasad as Managing Director, India, to lead its growth across semiconductors, data centers, and energy. The new contracts span chips, electronics, and clean energy, and include a repeat award from a global chipmaker expanding its fab.
US firm Gradiant has announced a series of milestones reinforcing its position in India: a new Managing Director for the country, five new design-build contracts across semiconductor, printed circuit board (PCB), and solar manufacturing, and plans to grow its India team by more than 40% this year.
Gradiant named Hari Prasad as Managing Director, India, to lead its growth across semiconductors, data centers, and energy. Hari brings nearly 30 years of water technology leadership, most recently as General Manager, Industrial Water at Pentair, following senior roles across India, the Middle East and Africa, according to a press release.
The new contracts span chips, electronics, and clean energy, and include a repeat award from a global chipmaker expanding its fab. Gradiant said it would deliver ultrapure water, wastewater treatment, and zero liquid discharge (ZLD) systems, keeping customers' production running while meeting India’s discharge standards.
To support this momentum, Gradiant is expanding its India team across engineering, project execution, operations, and digital roles, including at the Gradiant Engineering Center in Coimbatore, which supports the company’s projects worldwide, the press release said.
“India is fast becoming one of the most important places to build the AI supply chain, from chips to circuit boards to solar cells,” said Prakash Govindan, CEO of Gradiant. “When a chipmaker comes back to us for its next expansion, that is the strongest endorsement we can get. With Hari's leadership and an engineering team in India that serves customers here and around the world, we are well placed to be the single accountable water partner for that build-out.”
“Our orders in India are on track to more than double this year, with revenue set to more than triple,” said Hari Prasad, Managing Director, Gradiant India. “A fab or a solar plant can't run a single shift without water, and the ZLD rules here leave no room for shortcuts. That is exactly where Gradiant wins, and with the pipeline in front of us, we need more engineers to keep up.”
