Consultants

Dr G.K. Veeresh is a well known scientist in entomology and agriculture. He was Vice Chancellor of the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore. He is a member of the Karnataka Agricultural Commission and Member (RPC), National Agriculture Technology project, ICAR. He is founder President of the Association for Promotion of Organic Farming.

Prof. T.S. Rajamani is basically a Social Scientist. With deeper involvement in formulation and implementation of several development Projects, Prof. Rajamani carries around four decades of experience in the areas such as Education, child Nutrition, Family welfare and welfare of challenged persons. He is a Trainers' Trainer and a much sought after speaker.

Mr J.T. Prakash is a former Chief Engineer of Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board. He started his career as an engineer with the Corporation of the City of Bangalore and has four decades of experience in dealing with engineering and administration related to public utilities. He was responsible for the design and execution of Cauvery I & II Stages of water supply to Bangalore City. Remodeling of the Ulsoor Tank and widening of Mahatma Gandhi Road, two land marks of Bangalore, are some of the innumerable jobs executed by Mr J.T. Prakash while working with the municipality.

Mr Tony D’Silva is based in New York. He was the Secretary of the Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industries in late 70s and has been a consultant based in USA for the last two decades.

Dr Sira G. Rao has an experience of over 30 years in R&D on telecommunication, network architectures, telecom software and manufacturing. He has extensive knowledge in modern telecommunications, Internet, Digital Signal Processing. Currently applying his knowledge to DSP architectures, Agent Theory, new unified architectures for Internet etc., he is interested in architecting for the next generation networks, AI applications to emerging fields such as bioinformatics and next generation education initiatives. Dr Rao served on the Board of BPL Telecom Limited and as the Chief Technology Officer of the Company, defining a vision for BPL Telecom especially in the Internet domain. Dr Rao also started BPL College of Technology catering to enterprise wide requirements. Prior to this, he was a functional Director on the board (R&D) at ITI, Bangalore and later Director (Production). He was Executive Director, C-DoT (Center for Development of Telematics) , a highly prestigious R & D set up of Govt. of India. Dr Rao conceived and set up a major communication network for the Indian Army called the ASCON (Army Strategic Communication Network). He was the first to set up a model electronics manufacturing unit for ITI, thus responsible for the transition from obsolete Electro mechanical to modern switching practice at ITI.

Dr Deanna Berg is an internationally known consultant, speaker and coach to business organisations. She is the President of Innovation Strategies International, an Atlanta-based firm known for producing significant improvements for its clients and for unique approaches to the critical areas of change, innovation and organisational performance. Innovation Strategies has won praise from a client list that includes AT&T, Hawaiian Airlines, Boeing, Coca-Cola, NASA, TRW, Ford, Kimberly-Clark, Southwest Airlines, 3M, NationsBank, Microsoft, Pricewaterhousecoopers, Xerox, Singapore Police Force, Merck, Sharp and Dohme and other major organisations throughout Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America.

Mr P.V. Krishnamurthy, senior architect & engineer, was involved in designing the Township for the prestigious Kuduremukh Ironore Company Ltd. while he was working with Hindusthan Steel Works Construction Company Ltd. HSCL is one of the largest civil engineering and contracting undertakings in India. Mr P.V. Krishnamurthy has had total experience spanning nearly three decades. Major assignments handled include designing industrial estates, housing & administrative buildings for Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board and (KEB the Karnataka Electricity Board, now KPTCL)

Mr S.R. Aruna, senior consultant, is a postgraduate in Agriculture Science having specialised in Plant Breeding and Genetics. He has had an illustrious career spanning 30 years with blue chip companies like Cadbury India, Glaxo India Ltd, and Smith Kline Beecham. He has extensive exposure and first hand knowledge in agriculture farms including medicinal & plantation crops, contract farming, procurement & processing and commercial operations including exports / imports.

Prabhu D. Prakash, senior consultant, is a pioneer in telecom equipment design and manufacture having designed and commercially manufactured equipments to meet stringent quality standards for Indian Railways. He has also been involved in manufacture for the Indian Telephone Industry (ITI) who pioneered telecom development in India.

Mr. C. Vishwanath, senior consultant, is a Civil Engineer in the area of Water Supply & Sewerage covering preparation of schemes, implementation of works and operation/maintenance. He was also the Engineer Member of Bangalore Development Authority, the responsibility including formation of new layouts, maintenance of existing layouts; road building etc.

Mr S. Govindappa, senior consultant, is a former Member (Technical) of Karnataka Electricity Board (now KPTCL) and ex-Director, Karnataka Power Corporation. Mr Govindappa is a member of the Karnataka Government's Power Review Committee. With over four decades of experience in the energy sector including hydel and thermal generation, electrical equipment and battery storage technology, Mr Govindappa provides the required leadership to Erin's initiatives in the energy sector. He was also a Director on the Board of the Mysore Electrical Industries, Bangalore.