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Mr. Vikram V. Rajadhyaksha has achieved an outstanding level of success and prominence in the civil engineering industry in USA. Following his IIT Bachelor’s Degree in 1967, Mr. Rajadhyaksha received his Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 1968.nHe began his career with G.K. Jewell and Associates, a geotechnical engineering consulting firm, followed by service with a regulatory agency of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Water, as Head of Dam Safety. In 1979, he took advantage of the opportunity to purchase controlling interest in a local engineering firm, Dodson Lindblom Associates, Inc. As President of the company, much of the burden for marketing to the government sector becomes his responsibility with special emphasis on water resources, hydrology, and hydraulics related civil engineering projects.nnnHe is currently involved in building small hydroelectric power projects in India with the Governments of Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.n
Mr. V. Kasturirangan obtained his PGDBA from IIM Ahmedabad. Starting as a Brand Manager in Warner Hindustan Level Ltd. in 1971, he has had an outstanding career in corporate management leading to his present position of Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Philippines.nnFrom 1973 to 1979 Mr. Kasturirangan was Area Sales Manager, Senior Brand Manager, Brand Sales Manager and Marketing and Sales Manager, Foods with Hindustan Lever Ltd., Mumbai. For a year, in 1981, he was General Sales Manager, Lipton India Ltd., which was followed by his first assignment abroad as General Sales Operations Manager, Unilever Indonesia at Jakarta from 1982 to 1984. He was back in Mumbai with Hindustan Lever Ltd. as General Manager Personal Products, 1985-1989, and as Vice President, Personal Products 1990-1992. Before his present assignment as Chairman CEO, Unilever Philippines, he was Regional Liaison Member, East Asia Pacific of Unilever PLC, London.nnMr. Kasturirangan lives in Manila, Philippines with his wife Lalitha and two daughters.
Mr. Shiv Narain Mathur has had an outstanding career dedicated to the development of the petroleum industry in the country. At present, Chairman & Managing Director of IBP Co. Ltd. He is also the Chairman of Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd, Biecco Lawrie Ltd., TBP Caltex Ltd, and Cochin Refineries Balmer Lawrie Ltd. and Director of Balmer Lawrie (UAE) Ltd., Numaligarh Refinery Ltd., and Indian Oiltanking Ltd.nnDuring his 29 years in the petroleum industry and Govt. of India he has had wide experience of working in major PSUs and has been a part of numerous policies making bodies. He worked in petroleum refineries in Mumbai and Malaysia and from 1978 to 1987 he was Head of the Technical Department of the Oil Coordination Committee and in corporate planning with HPCL. Subsequently he held the positions of Advisor (Refineries) in the Ministry of Petroleum& Natural Gas, Director (Production), HPCL, Chairman Managing Director, MRL and Chairman, Indian Additives Ltd.
Mr. Lakshminarayanan R. Subramanyan is an entrepreneur who has made outstanding contributions in the fields of electronics, instrumentation and control. He heads a company, Situ Electro Instruments Pvt Ltd, in Mumbai which believes in total development of appropriate technology for Indian applications and has a number of important substitutes to its credit.nnnAfter brief stints as Development Engineer with FCI and Automatic Electric Ltd, Mr. Subramanyan started Situ Electro Instruments in 1971 with one employee and a first year turnover of R. 30,000/-. Today the same company has a turnover of Rs 2.5 crores and competes with multinationals such as ABB, Siemens, G.E- Harris, etc.nnSitu Electro Instruments have been involved in projects which include powerline and energy transducers and digital energy meters for a number of Electricity Boards around the country and for SCADA/ control Panel Manufacturers. They designed, developed and manufactured indigenously India’s largest distribution SCADA for BEST, Mumbai. Situ designed, developed and manufactured “under water mines” with on-board on-line FFT for monitoring ships signatures for Navy; besides development of monitoring equipment and controllers for agencies such as Navy, NPCL, RAPP, ECIL, ONGC, etc.nn
