An IAS officer of 1994 batch, Sudeep has held numerous challenging assignments with the Government of Tamil Nadu including Sub Collector/Collector of various districts, CityCommissioner, Managing Director: Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu, Managing Director: Tamil Nadu lndustrial Explosives, Member Secretary: Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu, Special Officer: Entrepreneurship Development institute, Chairman & Managing Director:  Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency, Sr Deputy Election Commissioner, Election Commission of lndia, etc. He is currently working as Additional Secretary, MNRE.

Achievements:

As Senior Deputy Election Commissioner at Election Commission of lndia since June 2015 to Dec 2021- he was incharge of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) during when he oversaw ramping up of production capacities at ECIL and BEL to manufacture 40 lakh machines in one year which was larger than cumulative production of EVMs in last 25 years since introduction of EVMs. He was also incharge of Electoral Roll and lT and brought about revamp of lT architecture significantly strengthening the security while making the entire process most user friendly. He was also DEC incharge for conduct of elections in 10 out the 29 States. He smoothly managed the toughest elections of West Bengal and Kerala in 2021.

He headed the Renewable Energy sector in Tamil Nadu as Chairman and Managing Director, Tamilnadu Energy Developmen tAgency (TEDA). Under his stewardship TEDA become the pioneer in rolling out grid tied solar rooftops with net-metering. TEDA installed 3 lakh solar rooftops and 1 lakh solar streetlights in 4 years apart from promoting large scale adoption by private sector.

As Managing Director, TamilNadulndustrialExplosivesltd., in 2008 in short span of 75 days he turned around the sick company surpassing its highest ever productivity achieved 12 years ago by 52%.

Increased profits of Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOI/ as its Managing Director by 24 times in 2003-2004 while simultaneously working with real estate developers to create additional lT Office Space of 25 million sq. ft. in Chennai and improving the ranking of Chennai as lT Destination from 6th to 2nd by 2005. As MD ELCOT he also won a National e-governance Award in making ELCOT Paperless.

Chosen to make a presentation on Good Governance to Prime Minister of lndia, in 2005 as District Collector of Dharmapuri.

As Collector he designed and managed Mega Free Rice and Free Lunch distribution projects covering 3 lakh families for 3 months in the drought hit Nagapattinam District in 2002, and also led a team to create a Guinness World Record in tree plantation at Nagapattinam in Dec 2002.

ln Jan 2005 he promoted BlT Sunami - a Tsunami Rehabilitation Trust of BITS Pilani Alumni Association - which adopted two villages in Nagapattinam for a $1m lntegrated Development Project. Bitsunami,along with District Administration re-wrote the previous Guinness World Record in tree plantation (surpassing it by 3 times) in memory of Tsunami victims globally.

He regularly volunteers with Adinath Jain Trust, Chennai in organising mega free Artificial Limb camps which have benefitted 35,000 differently abled in last 10 years.

He won the $25,000 First Prize in the prestigious University of Washington's Global Business Plan Competition, in 2007.

Passionately promotes Ultimate Players Association of India.

In 2010 as Special Officer, Entrepreneurship Development Institute he challenged the way entrepreneurship is taught by enrolling 50 students selected from 50 colleges for a month long residential Entrepreneurship Boot Camp at IIT Madras in collaboration.

As MD TAMIN initiated several measures to turn around hugely loss making state PSU and achieved operational profits in 2022-23, laid the foundation for TAMIN’s entry into Rare Earths by initiating  a JV with IREL and finalized a 4 times expansion cum purification proposal for graphite plant.

Joined as Additional Secretary in the Ministry of New & Renewable Energy on 28.11.2023.