Satish Rao

MD Clareo

Satish Rao is a Managing Director at Clareo, where he serves as an expert advisor to some of the world’s leading resources companies, focusing on technology and innovation, the energy transition, and critical minerals. He helps clients identify new approaches and capabilities to tackle intractable sustainability and operational challenges across the value chain from exploration, production, processing, and downstream use. Mr. Rao is also the founding Executive Director and board member of a mining industry consortium looking to accelerate the adoption of open systems and standards for automation. 
He has advised some of the world’s leading energy and resources companies and technology providers such as BHP, Rio Tinto, Anglo American, Teck Resources, Barrick Gold, Metso, Weir Group, BP, Woodside Energy, Chevron, Baker Hughes, Castrol, GE, and Exelon. In the mining sector, Mr. Rao has helped clients across the value chain from exploration, production, and waste / tailings management through helping define aspirational futures, develop vision and strategies, innovation capability, and apply new technologies to tackle strategic sustainability and growth challenges.