Dr Suri Venkatachalam

Suri Venkatachalam was the Chief Executive Officer and founder of Connexios Life Sciences, a drug discovery and development company, until his transition in 2016. He holds a PhD in condensed matter physics, and has conducted post-doctoral research in computational neuroscience and ecology.

Suri is an entrepreneur and a co-founder of Achira Labs, a Bengaluru based start-up working on molecular diagnostic applications. Suri is also an Adjunct Faculty at Nature Conservation Foundation, India, and an Advisor to the Snow Leopard Trust.

He is deeply interested in environmental history and its intersection with world history, including questions around land, resource and capital accumulation, and embedded economies.

Suri also serves on our Board of Directors.