A note from Ashutosh Tilak

Gopal Kavalireddi, famous on Quora for his answers is now part of our website. Many of my followers are not aware of him and so Here is his introduction in his own word.

 

Over the last 2 years or so, since the time I started writing on Quora, I never have had questions related to my credibility or my education or my writing ability or my knowledge of a wide variety of topics. Only in the recent past, there have been miscreants and anonymous writers who have been posting frivolous comments about me, to discredit me and create doubts in the minds of the readers on Quora.

Every human being deserves to have a little bit of self respect, even if they are not extolling virtues of honesty and utter selflessness. I am a person who takes my reputation, credibility and my selfless ability to help anyone, without expecting anything in return as my best habits/virtues. My parents have taught that to me as my responsibility and to follow it at all costs, even if it means sacrificing quite a few materialistic things.

I have always done the same and have advocated others to contribute as much as possible. But, when my credibility is at stake, I have every right to protect it, at all costs, since I have built it over a long period of time and will not let anyone tarnish it, especially people with no name or face attached to it.

So, Who is Gopal Kavalireddi ? This post is not for self-promotion but for providing a clarity about me.

Personal Life: I am the eldest son in the family of four and my sibling is a younger brother. I am married to a very dedicated housewife and have two kids. I currently live in Hyderabad but have been around in India and US.

My Education: I studied till 12th at Hyderabad (LFJC), post which, I did the following:

Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Marathwada University, Aurangabad, Maharashtra.

Master of Science, Material Science and Nuclear Decontamination, Florida International University, Miami, USA.

Master’s Diploma, CAD/CAM, Central Institute of Tool Design, Hyderabad, Telangana.

PGPM, Operations and Marketing (dual major), Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

Management Development Program in Finance, for Senior Management, XLRI, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand.

My Work Experience:After working for 1 year in Hyderabad as a Junior Engineer in Bhagavathi Analytical Labs Ltd, I have worked at the following places:

Project Coordinator, Nuclear Decontamination Projects, US Dept of Energy, Miami, Florida for 4 1/2 years.

Project Coordinator, Firepro Systems (part of Panasonic Group, Japan), Bengaluru, for a period of 1 year.

Lead Facilitator, Power Division, Thermax Limited, Pune, for a period of 1 year. (promoted within 1 year to)

Executive Assistant to Meher Pudumjee, Chairperson of Thermax Ltd. Pune for a period of 3 years.

Executive Assistant to Ramesh Kymal, CMD, Siemens Gamesa, Chennai for a period of 1 year (promoted to)

Head of General Planning and Strategy, India Operations, Siemens Gamesa, Chennai, for a period of 3 years.

Management Consultant, Private Firms based out of New York and London, for the last 4 years.

In between I have setup & closed a small business with some friends, started writing on Quora, while continuing to work as a management consultant (on a part time basis).

I have recently been asked if I would be interested in joining FYERS and I have evinced interest, but have not officially joined FYERS. At the same time, I am putting together a knowledge base covering the entire quantitative analysis along with financial ratios for launching the ‘New Look’ FYERS.

This is my story till now…in words.

To prove my credibility and the sort of people I worked with, who have appreciated my knowledge and my work ethics, I am providing screenshots from my LinkedIn profile. To prevent miscreants from vandalizing my profile, I have put a restricted access on the same. Hence, I am sharing the snapshots here.

Me with senior management of Thermax and the Board of Directors, picture available in 2008–09 Annual Report.

Mrs. Meher Pudumjee, Chairperson of Thermax attending my wedding in Hyderabad.

 

Mr. Unnikrishnan, MD and CEO of Thermax and his spouse, attending my reception dinner in Pune.

 

Mr. Gopal Mahadevan, CFO of Ashok Leyland, cracking on a joke at my reception dinner.

Now, lets come to what my colleagues and senior people who have worked with, think about me.

Mr. S Subbian, AVP, Wind, and Solar and Head of Engineering, Siemens Gamesa, written in 2014.

 

Mr. Prabhash Choudhary – Head of Research at VCCircle and former Associate Director at CRISIL. – This was written in 2009.

 

Mr. P.B. Lakshmikant, CFO, Caspian Impact Investments Pvt. Ltd., who studied with me at Great Lakes, written in 2009.

 

Mr. Anand Jayachandran, Vice President at Yes Bank, another classmate of mine, written in 2009.

 

Mr. Umakant Shende, COO, Clean Max Energy Solutions, a colleague from Thermax, written in 2011.

 

Mr. Vivek Taneja, Business Head at Thermax, a Senior Manager with whom I teamed up for Mergers and Acquisitions.

 

Mr. S. Manickam, Chief Project Manager, Siemens Gamesa, Spain, written in 2014.

In this manner, I can give tons of recommendations and quotes about what I am, who I was and what I can achieve in any organization. I don’t have to prove anything to anyone, as I am aware of my achievements and abilities.

Hopefully, this will provide sufficient clarity on Who is Gopal Kavalireddi?

I sincerely thank all the readers for taking the time out to read such a lengthy but a necessary highlighter, before treating me with disdain and utter cheapness. My credibility, reputation and commitment are my biggest strengths, I know it and many people know it. It is time other people know about it.

I am no run-of-the-mill casual writer on Quora. I am too serious about whatever I do.

Thank you,

Gopal Kavalireddi