James Abraham
Independent Director
Mr. James Abraham is the Co-Founder of Mynzo Carbon, developing a platform to engage people on the road to Net Zero.
He was one of the Founding Partners of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in India from 1998 to 2009, leading the expansion of the firm into New Delhi. He has been involved across sectors including power, transport, infrastructure, telecom, and consumer goods; covering a range of issues from business planning and acquisitions to organization development and financial structuring.
In 2009, Mr. Abraham was a Senior-Partner with BCG, when he left to lead SunBorne Energy, where he was also involved in the early formulation of solar policy in India.
In 2014, he co-founded SolarArise, which focuses on financing, owning, and managing utility-scale solar-power plants. SolarArise was one of the earliest to adopt solar tariffs that were lower priced than fossil fuels. In 2022, the firm was sold to a listed Investment Trust in the UK (Thomas Lloyd Energy Impact Trust).
Mr. Abraham is a fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, the Kamalnayan Bajaj Fellowship of the Ananta-Aspen Center, and a senior moderator of Aspen’s leadership programs. He is on the Board of the Ananta Center in India and chairs the Center’s Leadership Committee. He also serves on the Board of other listed and unlisted companies.
Mr. Abraham earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo, an MBA (Palmer Scholar) from Wharton, and an MA (International Relations) from Johns Hopkins University.