Ussama Rai

-Ussama Rai is serving as a Director Smart PV & BESS service solutions at Huawei to oversee its operations and business development across the UK and Western Europe. He has extensive 20+ years of professional experience in several multinational companies in the fields of engineering, project management, operations, and services, with a focus on energy generation through CHPs, renewables, and battery energy storage systems (BESS). He established and managed several successful B2B relationships with clients and partner companies, delivering efficacious energy generation and energy storage projects, and identified vital commercial opportunities to drive the rapid transformation and improvement in services, operations and business development.

-Ussama is a fellow chartered member of Engineers Australia, chartered engineer from the Institution of Engineering & Technology, UK and a chartered manager from Chartered Management Institute, UK. He is also a member of various other prestigious professional engineering bodies across the globe. He obtained a first class bachelor’s degree in Mechatronics Engineering and a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering with power electronics from the University of Bradford, UK. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD from Imperial College London, UK in the field of demand response for smart energy grid applications in the context of energy transitions. Additionally, he serves as a volunteer mentor for young engineers through the Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET) in the UK. Ussama is an avid reader of history, politics, future technologies, and biographies. He is an enthusiastic traveller and speaks four languages.