R. Gopalakrishnan

For the Indian politician, see R. Gopalakrishnan (politician).

Ramabadran Gopalakrishnan (born 25 December 1945) is an Indian businessman and author. Until his retirement he was an executive director of Tata Sons Ltd[1][2] and served on the boards of Tata Power, Tata Technologies, AkzoNobel India, Castrol India and ABP Pvt. Ltd.[3][4] Before joining Tata he was Vice Chairman of Hindustan Lever, the Indian subsidiary of Unilever plc.[2]

Gopalakrishnan earned a bachelor's degree in physics from St Xavier's College, Calcutta University, a bachelor's degree in Electronics from IIT Kharagpur in 1967 and did a six-week Advanced Management Programme from Harvard Business School, United States.[4][5]

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. He worked in the marketing function before moving to general management. During his years with Unilever, he was based in Jeddah as CEO of the Arabia unit; later, he was managing director of Brooke Bond Lipton India and then vice-chairman with Hindustan Lever. He has been president of the All India Management Association. He is married and has three children.[6]

  1. ^ "Gopalakrishnan does not seek re-election on Tata Motors board". Tata Motors. 3 August 2010.
  2. ^ a b "Profile" (PDF). themindworks.me. R. Gopalakrishnan. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  3. ^ "About Us: R Gopalakrishna". Tata Group. Archived from the original on 12 July 2008. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
  4. ^ a b "R Gopalakrishnan". IIT Kharagpur. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  5. ^ "R Gopalakrishnan". Forbes. Archived from the original on 7 October 2014.
  6. ^ "R Goapalakrishnan". Penguin Books India. Archived from the original on 27 September 2016.