Akshay Sagar is a strategic energy executive with a reputation for starting, transforming, and turning around global businesses. He is a growth-focused leader who has helmed major businesses for companies including Paterson-UTI, Weatherford International, Halliburton, and Schlumberger. 

At NovaSource Power Services, Akshay has worked on the organization, strategy, structure and cultural reset to enhance the customer experience as well as deliver lasting value to the renewable energy sector.

He has developed deep experience across the energy and industrial service sectors and has strategically expanded product portfolios, guided complex corporate transactions, and spurred transformations resulting in operational efficiencies and margin improvements. He has also launched digital platforms, including remote operations and ML/AI tools, to drive best practices, enhance performance efficiencies, and introduce organizational knowledge management systems.

Akshay has worked in roles across the US, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, and has wide experience managing business performance across cultures, regulatory regimes, and geopolitical risk.

Akshay earned an MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University, and a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He is a member of the Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA) as well as the International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC), Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), and Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA).

A long-time participant in and supporter of education-focused nonprofits, he founded the Sakshar School in India, which prepares students for higher education studies in engineering and medicine, and is active in Eyes on Me, a Houston-based organization that helps support recently-released felons into society through goals coaching and business skills.