Rashi Akki

Rashi Akki launched Ag-Grid Energy LLC in 2016, with a vision for simultaneously improving the viability and financial stability of American dairy farms through the carbon-negative production of renewable biofuels from cow manure and food waste. Currently, Ag-Grid has five operating dairy digesters that process both dairy manure and food waste.

Two of the digesters, located in Connecticut, produce renewable electricity. They are reducing the carbon footprint of dairy farms and the electrical grid and providing useful disposal for food waste.  Previously, Akki worked at the DuPont chemical company, where she held senior positions in central R&D, DuPont Titanium Technologies, Nonwovens and Industrial Biosciences. She is a member of the American Biogas Council and Partnership for Electric Pathways.

Akki earned her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Osmania University, M.S from University of Connecticut, and Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology.