Founder/Managing Director, Mitrex and Empereal Energy
Manoj Divakaran has over 35 years of outstanding track record as a business leader and entrepreneur and is currently recognised as a thought leader in the renewable energy and water industries. He has successfully incubated various innovative ventures and projects in the renewable energy and water sectors with a special focus on architectural solar integration into iconic buildings to promote a sustainable Net-Zero future. He has mentored many start-ups and has assisted innovative industries to expand into architectural solar.
He is the Founder and Managing Director of Empereal Energy – A group of companies formed to address the global infrastructure challenges in making renewable energy and fresh water available to all. Empereal has created numerous innovative and award-winning solutions and have implemented many challenging projects in renewable energy and water desalination. Empereal operates in Singapore, India Central Asia and the Middle East. Empereal is recognised as a pioneer in Architectural Solar for the award-winning design and projects at Dubai Expo 2020 and various Net-Zero buildings in the region. Empereal partners with Mitrex – the world’s largest Building Integrated Solar Photovoltaic company – to lead the adoption of architectural solar facades in the Middle East.
Empereal designs and implements various architectural solar solutions. Empereal works with various architects and developers to achieve custom integration of aesthetic and efficient solar PV into new Net-zero buildings. Empereal has successfully designed and implemented several iconic architectural solar façade projects for leading global architects like Santiago Calatrava, Adrian Smith (ASGG), Hopkins Architects, Atelier Du Prado, Asif Khan, Woods Bagot, SOM, Killa Design etc.
Manoj is widely travelled and is a keen student of business, culture and philosophy. He is a mentor to many and is a big believer in sharing his learning with others. He writes and speaks regularly on issues and solutions related to architectural solar integration and sustainable design. He is actively passionate about cricket, writing, food and trekking.
