My first and foremost pranams (obeisance) to my parents. Every father is a hero. For me, he is a hero, a man of words, knowledge and wisdom. He is my first and foremost guru to me. He passed away recently. My teachers/gurus - without any order - please accept my namaskarams and pranams:
- Kanchi Paramachariyar
- Bhagavan Ramana Maharishi
- Seshadri Swamigal
- Smt. Joseph, [School]
- Smt.Radha, [School]
- Smt.Chitra [School]
- Smt. Jubilee [School]
- Shri. [Late] D.Subramaniam, Unlce [School] - my Maths guru
- Shri. B,Radhakrishnan [School]
- Shri. Parthasarathy Iyengar (Headmaster) [School]
- Shri. Rajagopalan [School]
- Shri. Aravazhi (Tamizh) [School]
- Shri. Marudur S. Rengarajan (Tamizh) [School]
- Shri. TK Govindarajan [School]
- Shri. [Late] KT Govindarajan (Economics & Headmaster) [School]
- Shri. S Kannan (maths) [School]
- Shri. Basheer (maths), [School]
- Shri. Rajamani (maths), [School]
- Shri. G.Baskar (maths) [School]
- Shri. KN Desikachari (Maths) [School]
- Shri. M.Hariharan [School]
- Shri. Sattanathan [School]
- Shri. K.Thiagarajan (Tamizh) [School]
- Shri. K Dharmaraj (Accounts) [School]
- Shri. S Ramakrishnan (SRK, Economics) [School]
- Shri. P.Vijaya Chandran (PVC, Science) [School]
- Shri. Madhavan (Commerce) [School]
- Shri. V.P.Krishnamurthy [School]
- Shri. Krishnamurthy (History & Geography) [School]
- Shri. Mani (Crafts) [School]
- Shri. A Vishwanatha Sharma (Sanskrit) [School]
- Shri. M.P.Shanmugam [School]
- Shri, Karmegam (Sports - Track and Field) [School]
- Shri. Radhakrishnan (Sports & NCC-Air wing), [School]
- Shri. Selvaraj (Sports - Track and Field) [School]
- Shri. Nammalvar (NCC-Army). [School]
- Shri. Janakiraman (Navy & English) [School]
- Shri. Durai Pandian (Accounts), [College]
- Shri. Kanakasabesan (Stats) [College]
- Shri. Arun (Tamizh), [College]
- Shri, Kayaroganan (Tamizh), [College]
- Shri. B. Suresh (English), [College]
- Shri. S,K.Ramakrishnan (Income Tax), [College]
- Shri. Balagangadharan (Auditing), [College]
- Shri. Ramasamy (Business Management & Commercial Law), [College]
- Shri. Sudharshan (Accounts), [College]
- Shri. S.Jagannathan (Economics) [College]
- Shri. Kalyanaraman (Accounts), [College]
- Shri. M.Sakthivelmurugan (Corporate Law), [College]
- Shri. Gopal Muralidhar (Management Accounting).[College]
- Shri. Sundaresan, my Costing guru. If I am good in costing today, credit goes to him. [CMA]
- Shri. Sankaranarayanan (Management) [CMA]
- Shri. Sethuraman, who created the engineer in me [CMA]
- Shri. Sundaram (Costing). [CMA]
- Shri. Ramanathan (My principal during Auditing course) [CA]
- Shri. S Nagarajan (Accounts), [CA]
- Shri. Ranga Rao (Accounts), [CA]
- Shri. Murali (Auditing and Company Law..inspiring me to quote relevant sections, when you say something on Company Law) [CA]
- Shri. Thangapandian (Electricity accounting) [CA]
- Shri. Sivakumar (Standard Costing), [CA]
- Shri. LS Sivakumar (Maths & Stats), [CA]
- Shri. Venkatasivakumar (Costing). [CA]
- Shri. T.N.Manohar (Tax) [CA]
- Shri. PR Vittak (Naths) [CA]
- Shri. Bhupathi (Tax) [CA]
- Shri. T.G.Suresh (Income Tax), whom I never knew that he is a professor in my college. [CA]
- Shri. Ramesh Kumar (Marketing), [IIM, B]
- Shri. Amit Gupta (Organizational behavior) [IIM, B]
- Shri. Shyamal Roy - my favorite economics guru [IIM, B]
- Shri. Ganesh Prabhu, [IIM, B]
- Shri. NM.Agarwal [IIM, B]
- Smt. Padmini Srinivasan, [IIM, B]
- Shri. Ashok Thampy [IIM, B]
- Smt. Anjana Vivek, [IIM, B]
- Shri. YLR Murthy (Marketing) [IIM, B]
- Shri, Krishna Sundar - he taught the supply chain management by a beer game. A tough person in class - cool outside. [IIM, B]
- Shri. S. Krishnamoorthy - a CA with lot of wits & humor in his teaching. [IIM, B]
- Shri. M.S.Narasimhan (MSN- like Microsoft Network - he builds a good network among participants). Always willing to help with a smile - even when he says NO. [IIM, B]
- Shri. Mahadevan [Management & Spirituality]
- Shri. K.Gopalakrishnan (KGK) - my Guru in Stock Market, Financial Services [Office]
- Shri. G.Balasubramanian - learnt a lot of good habit and English too.[Office]
- Shri. M.S.Rangesh (MSR) - my Guru in managing/handling people. Great mentor [Office]
- Shri. W.R.Vasudevan (WRV) - who taught me project management. [Office]
- Shri. R.Srinivasan (RS) - who taught me corporate finance [Office]
- Shri. G.Thirugnanasambandam (GTS) - who educated me on agriculture and plants [Office]
- Shri. J.Subramani (JS) - who taught me the plant bio-tech intricacies [Office]
- Shri. T.Nataraajan (TN) - A great mentor in Finance and management - who gave me a free hand to manage Finance, Tax, Accounting, MIS. [Office]
- Shri. S.Raghunandan (Raghu) - I cannot forget his training on presentation skill. [Office]
- Shri. Peter Sands - the way he analyse performance of a large organization [Office]
- Shri. Hemant Kulkarni - learnt how to manage a Shared Services Center [Office]
- Shri. Nipun Bhatia - learnt BCP and leadership skills [Office]
- Shri. S.Raghavan - learnt a lot about LPG and LNG [Office]
- Shri. Romi Malhotra - learnt how to be down to earth [Office]
- Shri. Krishna Kumar - my coach and mentor
- Shri. Venkatesh Seshadri - my coach and mentor
- Shri. Shankar Thayumanavan - my mentor and good friend
- Shri. CVS Krishnakumar - a great friend and taught how to be down to earth
- Shri. Vijay Dhawan - an inspiration - with his daily positive messages & speed of trust
- Shri. Marshall Goldsmith - my guru who I follow a lot.
- Shri. Ken Blanchard - my guru for effective management
I specifically did not mention anyone from my current organization, though there are a lot of them who inspired me and I learnt a lot from them.
To all my friends, from whom I learnt a lot.
If I missed anyone, it is not intentional. It is due to my aging.
With warm regards.
