Ramabadran Gopalakrishnan (born 25 December 1945) is an Indian businessman and author. Until his retirement he was an executive director of
Tata Sons Ltd and served on the boards of
Tata Power
Tata Power Company Limited is an Indian electric utility company based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India and is part of the Tata Group. The core business of the company is to generate, transmit and distribute electricity. With an installed electri ...
,
Tata Technologies
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,
AkzoNobel
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India,
Castrol India and
ABP Pvt. Ltd. Before joining Tata he was Vice Chairman of
Hindustan Lever
Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) is a consumer goods company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is a subsidiary of Unilever, a British company. Its products include foods, beverages, cleaning agents, personal care products, water purifi ...
, the Indian subsidiary of
Unilever plc
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.
Gopalakrishnan earned a bachelor's degree in Physics from
St Xavier's College,
Calcutta University
The University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University; CU) is a public collegiate state university in India, located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Considered one of best state research university all over India every year, C ...
, a bachelor's degree in Electronics from
IIT Kharagpur
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in 1967 and did a six-week Advanced Management Programme from
Harvard Business School
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, United States.
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He has lived and worked in India, the UK and Saudi Arabia. He began his career in 1967 as a computer analyst with ]Hindustan Lever
Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) is a consumer goods company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is a subsidiary of Unilever, a British company. Its products include foods, beverages, cleaning agents, personal care products, water purifi ...
. He worked in the marketing function before moving to general management. During his years with Unilever
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, he was based in Jeddah
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as CEO of the Arabia unit; later, he was managing director of Brooke Bond
Brooke Bond is a brand of tea owned by Ekaterra, formerly an independent tea-trading and manufacturing company in the United Kingdom, known for its PG Tips brand and its Brooke Bond tea cards.
History
Brooke Bond & Company was founded by Ar ...
Lipton
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India and then vice-chairman with Hindustan Lever. He has been president of the All India Management Association
All India Management Association (AIMA) is the national apex body of the management profession in India. A not for profit, non-lobbying organisation, working closely with Industry, Government, Academia and students to further the cause of the m ...
. He is married and has three children.
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References
External links
R. Gopalakrishnan
at Penguin India
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1949 births
Living people
St. Xavier's College, Kolkata alumni
University of Calcutta alumni
Tata Group people
IIT Kharagpur alumni
Indian chief executives
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