Satish Rao is a business advisor and thought leader helping shape the future of sustainable growth for the industrial economy. He helps businesses transform to meet future decarbonization, sustainability, and growth objectives. He has advised some of the world’s leading resources, energy, and advanced materials companies such as BHP, Rio Tinto, Anglo American, Baker Hughes, BP, Castrol, GE, Exelon, Owens Corning, Boise Cascade, and Essity. Mr. Rao has helped them rethink their aspirational futures, develop innovation capability, and apply new technologies to tackle strategic sustainability and growth challenges such as decarbonization, water, automation and electrification, and improving production of metals and minerals important to electrification.At Clareo, Mr. Rao leads technology innovation and growth practice for the industrial sector, with emphasis on energy, resources, and materials. He co-created Clareo’s FastPath approach to growth and innovation, which spans insight generation, ideation, and a rapid and lean approach to implementation. Under his leadership, Clareo’s ecosystem engagement and innovation forums have accelerated the transformation of industrial processes through emerging technologies within AI & ML, robotics, additive manufacturing, optics and imaging, and advanced biobased and nano materials, with new partnerships between his clients and emerging startups.Mr. Rao is a passionate evangelist on the topics of sustainability and innovation, and has spoken and keynoted at leading industry events including IMARC, Global Corporate Venturing, IChemE, and the Ontario Mining Association. He is also a contributing author to a book, Growth Champions: The Battle for Sustained Innovation Leadership (Wiley), and his writings appear in leading publications such as the Chief Executive, Engineering and Mining Journal, Metals Bulletin, and SPE’s Journal of Petroleum Technology.