BALWINDER SAMRA was born in 1962 and is a native of Northern India. He completed
his education in chemical engineering and since moved to California to pursue
business ventures in environmental technologies. Early in his career, he worked
in the electronics industry, and by 1987 he was General Manager of a $40 million
revenue subsidiary of Fortune 500 company Flextronics. During his tenure at
Flextronics, Mr. Samra was instrumental in establishing manufacturing plants for
the company in Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. In late 2005, Mr. Samra founded
Balqon Corporation to address the need of off-highway electric vehicles for
industrial and transportation market segments. During 2006 a team of Balqon
design engineers designed an electric terminal tractor to transport goods
containers at ports and large industrial warehouses. Since the completion of the
designs in 2008, AQMD and Los Angeles Port Authority has funded the
manufacturing of an additional 26 vehicles to reduce pollution in the Los
Angeles basin area.
