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Rajesh Nair is a Professor of Practice, Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Asia School of Business. He is also a Visiting Scholar at MIT-Tata Center for Technology and Design, with a focus on helping students in commercializing technologies developed at the center. Prior to this work, Rajesh has been a product designer and serial entrepreneur for 25 years designing and developing consumer and industrial products. The last company he founded, Degree Controls, Inc. (www.degreec.com), provides solutions in thermal design of high reliability electronic products in various markets such as medical, IT, military and consumer. He holds 13 US patents. He was the recipient of the Entrepreneur of the Year award from New Hampshire High Tech Council and was a finalist at Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year-New England program. Rajesh is an engineer by education and holds Master’s degrees in Engineering & Management (MIT), Manufacturing Engineering (UMass, Amherst), Electronic Product Design (Ind
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 4 investors hold the Professor of Practice role in VCSift. Rajesh Nair is one of them.
- • 2,293 investors are based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated July 2026.
Investment Focus
- Stages
- seed
- Location
- Boston, US
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