Mr. N Satish Kumar, born in 1969, is a Management Graduate, besides he has done Post Graduation Diploma in Computer Applications. He worked with several pharmaceutical Companies in the areas of marketing. He also handled software and hardware operations for Andhra Pradesh State Multichannel Electronic Services. In 1998, he founded Southern Online Services Limited with the object of providing Internet services in the state of Andhra Pradesh. He was responsible for leading the Company to emerge as one of the major private sector ISPs in the state of Andhra Pradesh. He has been holding the position of Managing Director since 2001 and is responsible for developing new business for the company and client delivery. Starting in 2005, he has also been spearheading the Company's efforts to engage in the business of bio diesel. At present, he is actively involved in promoting the Bio-fuels production in India along with SuTra (a division of Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore), Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, Ministry of Rural Development, Govt. of India, Indian Oil Corporation, Faridabad, Indian Institute of Petroleum, and the Department of Environment and Forest, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. Under this direction, India's first commercial bio-diesel production unit at Hyderabad in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India was set up and is successfull running since early 2007. Starting in 2007 Mr. Kumar also directs the expansion of SBT's bio diesel production throught a second reginery (at 10 times the capacity compared to the first one) at Vizag.
