2024: TEDxFolsom High School Youth - Unleash
Founder, CEO-EnCube Labs, Engineer, Designer, Serial entrepreneur, and Educator
TOPIC: Unleashing the Entrepreneur Within
Rajesh Nair (Founder, CEO-EnCube Labs) has a diverse background as an engineer, designer, serial entrepreneur, and educator.
Rajesh's academic achievements include multiple Master's degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Engineering and Management, UMass, Amherst in Manufacturing Engineering, and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Electronic Product Design. He received his Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication from IISc. He has founded four companies in the United States and was awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year by the New Hampshire High Tech Council. He holds 13 US patents.
Rajesh has also served as a founding faculty member and Professor of Practice in Innovation & Entrepreneurship at the Asia School of Business (ASB) in Malaysia, started by MIT-Sloan, and as a visiting scholar at MIT. While at these institutions, he researched nurturing young innovators and entrepreneurs from underserved communities and developed the Zero-Maker-Innovator-Entrepreneur framework and training methodology, which focuses on building children's confidence, self-learning skills, and critical thinking abilities. Rajesh has conducted over a hundred workshops in seven countries for school and university students from underserved communities. Recently Rajesh was appointed to the NH State Board of Education by Gov Chris Sununu.
Rajesh's ultimate mission is to create one million entrepreneurs through his work.