Dr. Sundeep “Sunny” Dronawat received a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering and Master of Science in Biochemical Engineering from National Institute of Technology in Karnataka, India. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Louisville in 1996 and his Master of Business Administration from University of Louisville in 2001.

Sunny is CTO of Plutoshift, an Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning company based out of Palo Alto, California. Dr. Dronawat was co-founder and managing partner of POS on Cloud which was acquired by Newtek in 2019. He has served as an Adjunct Professor at University of Louisville, Bellarmine University, and Indiana University.  Sunny served as VP and CTO of Western Southern Financial group a Fortune 500 company.

Dr. Dronawat serves as the Chairman of The Louisville Water Company and serves on the Board of Jefferson Community and Technical College.  Dr. Dronawat was appointed by Governor to the Commission on Small Business Advocacy for the State of Kentucky. Dr. Dronawat is a former board member of Kentucky State Park Foundation, co-founder and board member of Indian Professional Council of Kentucky and is past president of Indian Community of Kentucky. He has served as Chairman of India Community Foundation of Louisville. He is also a Lifetime member of Indian Community Foundation of Louisville, USA. Dr. Dronawat is a Fellow of Financial Services Institute and Life Office Management Institute.

Dr. Dronawat was awarded the MOSIAC outstanding immigrant award by Jewish Community and Family Services in 2008. He was also recognized as a Kentucky Colonel. He was recognized as Alumni Fellow of the year by University of Louisville – Engineering School in 2018.