Dipender Saluja

Dipender Saluja is Managing Director at Capricorn Investment Group, a private investment firm headquartered in Palo Alto, California, where he oversees investments and helps incubate companies in energy technology, clean tech, and IT.  His current areas of interest are solar, electrification of vehicles, energy storage, smart grid, wind and water. 

Dipender is also President & CEO of Automatiks Inc, a Capricorn portfolio company that is developing electronic connectivity platforms for electric & hybrid vehicles, storage and smart grids. 

Prior to Capricorn & Automatiks, Dipender was Chief of Staff at Cadence, a global market leader  in electronic design. Prior roles at Cadence included Corporate Vice President of Technical Field Operations and GM of Worldwide Services, in which he led a 1200 person global organization. He was also GM of Asia Pacific field operations, and Vice President of Applications Engineering, and set up and managed organizations in various regions around the world including North America, Europe, Japan, Asia Pacific, India and China.

Prior to Cadence, Dipender worked at Data General (now EMC), Honeywell, and ROLM (now IBM).  Dipender is an electrical & computer engineer by training, and attended UND, the University of innesota, and Stanford.

Dipender also serves on the boards of Automatiks Inc., Sunpreme Inc., and Education Frontiers.  He currently lives in Los Altos, with his wife and two sons.