Ex SPB Group Members Profiles
The detailed profiles of the following are available in this post (in the same order of listing)
V.K. Jayaramam, Pune
Alok Kumar, Ankleshwar, Gujarat
R. Karunanithi (Karu), Sydney, Australia
N. Ramanathan, Chennai
S. Srivathsan, Chennai
S. N. Babu Govindarajan, Chennai
P. S. Raghunandanan, Chennai
T. S. Ramadorai, Chennai
S.A. Viswanathan, Coimbatore
V. Subramonia Pillai, Chennai
T.M. Raghavan, Bangalore
H. Ramamurthy, Chennai
G. Rajagopal, Chennai
S. Kannan, Chennai
M. Louis Soosai Manickam, Chennai
V. Dorairajan (Dorai), Coimbatore
A. R. K. Rao, Hyderabad
K. Ramachandran, Bangalore
P. Shivaram Adyanthaya, Mangalore
N.S.L. Narasimhan, Chennai
A. P. Balasubramanian, Bangalore
Detailed Profiles of Members
Name: H.R. Mohan
SPB period: Jul 1976 to Dec 1982
Now live in: Chennai, near Nandambakkam Trade Center
Spouse: Rajakumari, housewife
Son: Madan (1979). PhD, Director, CoE for Data Driven Discovery, St Jude Children's Research Hospital at Memphis, Tennessee USA. Married to Ambika. Has a kid, Krish 5 years old.
Daughter: Nithya (1981), MPhil, Asst Prof Cum Clinical Psychologist, Chengalpattu Govt Medical College and Hospital, Lives in Mahindra World City, Unmarried.
Current Status: Retired from The Hindu, Consulting in computer & IT related areas, supporting technical society activities.
Name : V.K. Jayaramam
SPB Period : 1971-73
Now living in : Pune
Spouse: Sharda
Son: Srikant
Daughter: Aishwarya
Current Status: Retired as Scientist National Chemical Laboratory, Pune in 2009. Currently a Faculty at Flame University Pune and Shiv Nadar University Greater Noida
Name: Alok Kumar
SPB period: July 1981 to March 1988
Now live in: Gujarat, Ankleshwar
Spouse: Renu , homemaker
Son (s): x
Daughter (s): Agrani (1987), married to Balanarayan , both stay in Mumbai
Current Status: now retired, and a consultant to the chemical industries...
Name: R. Karunanithi (Karu)
SPB period: 1976-78
Now living in: Sydney
Spouse: Nirmala
Son: Karthik Karunanithi, Managing Director, Accenture Australia
Daughter in Law: Nirupama Mani, Director, NSW Govt. Audit Office
Grand Sons: Ishaan (4 years) & Reyaan( 1 year)
Name: N. Ramanathan
SPB period: 1978 - 85
Now live in: Chennai
Spouse: Haimavathy R
Son (s):
Daughter (s): Kavya & Athulya
Current Status: Kavya married - has one daughter - employed in Mumbai . Athulya too employed in Mumbai but now WFH in Chennai
Additional Info: I presently work in SPB Group - Ponni Sugars
Name: S. Srivathsan
SPB period- 5.5.76 to 12.1.86.
Currently in Mylapore, Chennai enjoying retired life.
Spouse- Jayanthy Srivathsan
Daughters Dhanya and Dhivya both did their MBA in US from Chicago Business School and Harvard Business School respectively
Dhanya with McKinsey and married and has a boy
Dhivya is with Box Inc and looking for a suitable match
Name: S. N. Babu Govindarajan
SPB period: may76- sep 79
Now live in: chennai, Vadapalani
Spouse: akshaya lakshmi, health & wellness coach
Son (s): Arvind Raj & Arunrajkumar both working in Chennai
Daughter (s): ———-
Current Status: retired from L& T / private practice CA
Additional Info: 4 grand children
Name: P. S. Raghunandanan
SPB Period: 1972 - 77, 1980 - 84.
Live in Chennai
Spouse: Prema
Currently: Retired.
Name: T. S. Ramadorai
SPB Period. 1964 to 1984 4 years in Tanzania
Lives at Serene Adhinath Retirement community, Mannivakkam 600048.
Spouse Vasumathi
Son. Arunkumar
Daughter. Usha Chandran
Both are in Chicago USA in
Current Status. Retired life
Name: S.A. Viswanathan
SPB Period: Nov 1961 & left in 1984 May. Worked for 4 years in Tanzania
Now live in : Retirement community in Coimbatore. G 210 Nananani homes Phase 3 Coimbatore 641 109
Spouse: Lakshmi
Sons: Anantakrishnan (Raghu). Working with Bank of America
Subramanian (Ramani). Working with UNFCU
Both living in NJ in USA
Daughters: __
Current status: Happy retired life
Name: V. Subramonia Pillai
SPB Period : Sep 1979 to Sep 1985
Now live in : Adyar, Chennai
Spouse : Smt. Kumari
Son : Mr. Harish Kartic at Bangalore
Daughter : Mrs.Jegha Sowmiya Shriram at Hyderabad
Current Status: Working in SPB PC
Name: T.M. Raghavan
SPB period:1978 to 1982
Now live in: Bangalore
Spouse: Srividya
Son (s): Abhinav - Rhode Island
Daughter (s): Raksha - London
Current Status: Running a packaging unit.
Name : H. Ramamurthy
SPB period : 1/'77 to 12/'91
Now: (since 2011) @Serene Adinath, Mannivakkam, Vandalur...Sr.Citizen's Home
Spouse: Nalini (Deceased in12/'06, due to blood cancer)
Son: Pritham.MS(Miami), PhD(McGill,.Montreal,Canada, MBA (Karkatia,Canada).Project Coordinator in a Medical Research Institute,in Houston.
Daughter-in-law: Mythili. MS,Austin
Daughter: Priya, MBA (Systems Mgr,Cleveland clinic,Ohio.
Son-in-law: JaiSankar Subramanian,PhD,Mgr , Business Development
Grandsons:
(1) Jayen: Graduated from Stanford in Compr Sc (AI), proceeding to join Harward Business School
(2) Adarsh ,Final year in Ohio 'Varsity with Data Science and Financial Analysis
Grand daughters:
(1) Janya..2nd year Compr.Sc in Rice 'Varsity
(2) Kavya .1st year Compr Sc in Ohio 'Varsity
(3)Arya..1st year in Washington 'varsity in Law,Public policy
Current Status:. Simple retired life
Name: G. Rajagopal
SPB period: 1977-84
Now live in: Chennai
Spouse: Usha
Son (s): Shyam Sunder & Ram Manohar both are married and live in Melbourne.
Current Status: Retired
Additional Info: engaged in NGO activity.
Name : S. Kannan
SPB Period : May, 1976 to March, 2013
Now live in : Thoraipakkam, OMR Road, Chennai
Spouse : Sumathi - paints in all Indian traditional forms like Kerala Mural, Madhubani, Gondu in addition to contemporary style like Oil and Water Colours.
Daughter : Harini - married and settled in Seattle, USA. Has a son
Son : Sudharshan Kaushik - married and settled in Bengaluru
Current Status - Enjoying my retirement
Additional Info : am passionate about singing old tamil film songs.....reading.....playing shuttle badminton...
Name: M. Louis Soosai Manickam
SPB period:1977-1984
Now live in: Chennai- Porur/Mugalivakam
Spouse: Mrs. Emilda Mary Rani Louis MSc (Guidance and Counselling) Psychological counselling practice in Chennai
Son (s): Lawrence Gilbert Louis Ms (Mechanical and robotics) Currently Product manager at BMW Munich, Germany
Fiancé: Ms. Anna Rapa. Master in business
Elder daughter: Ms. Lourdes Benedicta Louis BTech MBA (USA )
Son in law - Mr. Justin Benet B.E, Product manager Souther California Edison, USA
Two Grand sons. Steven Joel Benet (6) years and Adrian Lionel Benet (1 3/4 ) year old
2nd Daughter: Ms. Linda Beatrice Louis B. A. LLB (hons) LLM (Human rights and international Law) PHd (currently doing) Working as a lecturer in Leiden university
Current Status: Retired from FLSMDITH limited, Chennai
Additional Info: Travelling between Europe and USA on regular intervals.
Name: V. Dorairajan (Dorai)
SPB Period : Sep 1964 to Jun 1982
Last employment: SPB project & Consultancy
Now living in: Brindavan Senior citizen foundation, Coimbatore
Spouse: Sarala
Son: Ramesh, Working as Management consultant in Chicago, USA
Daughter: Kalpana, Dallas, USA
Daughter: Radhika, Bengaluru
Current status : Simple Retired life
Name: A. R. K. Rao
SPB Period: 1981 to 1993. Last position Held in SPB: Vice President (Technical).
Now live in: Hyderabad, Telangana.
Spouse: A. Vijaya Lakshmi, Home Maker.
Sons
(i) Dr. A. Venkateswara Rao, Working with Microsoft in Seattle. Married to Suryakanthi, MBA, Home Maker. Blessed with two daughters, Anoushka and Akanksha.
(ii) A. V. Durgaprasad, working with Google in San Jose, U.S.A. Married to Kaveri (M.S.) Working with Broadcom, San Jose. Bessed with one son, Anirudh and one daughter, Aadhya.
Daughter: L. P. Padma Priya, M.Com, Home Maker Living in Hyderabad, Married to L. M. H. Sarma, Financial Controller. Blessed with one son, L. V. K. Revanth.
Current Status: After retiring from HPC as CMD in 2001, served as Technical Advisor to Two Companies till COVID 19 Started. Presently enjoying Retired life.
Name: K. Ramachandran
SPB period: 1971 to 1996
Now live in: Bangalore
Spouse: Rajeswari, Housewife
Son: Anand M.C.A, working in Nokia, Bangalore, married in 2007 to Gayathri B. E. Working in Symphony H. R. Head. Blessed with one son doing 7th Standard and daughter doing 3rd Standard in Amarajyothi Matriculation H. Secondary School, K. R. Puram, Bangalore.
Daughter: Lakshmi Sudha (a) Krithika B.Sc.,(Computer Science) working as Finance Manager in San Fransisco, married in 1999 to Mr. Sridhar B. E., M. S.(U.S.A.), working as Architect in Intuit, San Fransisco, blessed with two sons, first son doing Final year (Medical) from California University, San Fransisco and Second son doing 9th Grade in Foothill School, near Pleasonton, San Fransisco.
Current Status: Retired and doing Social Service in Bangalore.
Additional Info: As all the members in Group are my dearest friends, request to give their numbers to save in my contacts, which will be useful for any personalised chats, calls as i do with some of my good old friends from SPB and PONNI.
Name: P. Shivaram Adyanthaya
SPB Period: Sep 1961 to Dec 1980
Now living in Mangalore
Spouse: Late Mrs Shashikala Adyanthaya
Daughters: Vinaya, Kalpana and Devika
Current status. Retired as Executive Director Mysore Paper Mill Ltd. Worked with Birla group's Orient Paper Industries Ltd at corporate level in Calcutta and abroad for seven years. Final retirement in Dec 1997
Presently a director in a Credit Cooperative Bank for the last 20 years.
Name: N.S.L. Narasimhan
SPB Period: May 1962 to Jul 2011
Now living in Chennai 41 (Thiruvanmiyur)
Spouse: Saroja
1st Daughter: Mrs Rajeswari Prakash living in Dubai. Her daughter, Preeti is married & settled in California
2nd Daughter: Mrs Rajini Gajaraj who was in Dubai since 2000 is shifting to Chennai for daughter's college education. Her son doing 4th year BE in SSN College.
Son: Ramasubramanian working in Industrial Additives at Chennai. His daughter Shruthi working in Cafracmo Ontorio, Canada. His son R Lakshmi Narasimhan working as Associate Consultant in a UK based Company at Chennai.
Current Status: Enjoying retired life
Name: A. P. Balasubramanian
SPB period: 1967 to 1994
Presently settled in bangalore
Spouse: B.Jayalakshmi, housewife
Daughters:
1.Sowmya: In Bangalore, social worker and teacher. Spouse: Ravi Narayan, working for USA based company from India. Son: hari narayan, working at apple , settled in California
2.Vidya: In bangalore working as teacher. Spouse : M R Balakrishna, Retd Canara Bank officer. Daughter: Dr. Vibha B, completed MBBS and pursuing master of surgery in ENT
3. Padma: Working for Singapore health ministry. Spouse.. Zabiullah, working for health ministry in Singapore. Kids: 1.Roshan studying at National singapore university 2. Sumaya..studying 8th std
4. Revathi: Housewife in Singapore. Spouse.. Subramanian..working for Deutsch bank in singapore Daughter: Mrudhani studying 10th
5. Swathi: Working in USA, Michigan. Spouse: Dr. Narayan Parameswaran, Professor at MSU. Kids 1.Mythreyi, studying pre law at MSU. 2.Sidharth, studying 8th
Name: Venkatraman AS
SPB period:1976 to 2001
Now live in: Tirunelvli
Spouse: Rajalakshmi
Daughter: Lakshmi srinivasan (in US).
Current status: Retired.
Name: T.S. Raman
SPB period: 1964 to 1998 in SRP, Pulp Mill, Workshop, Materials Inspection and till 2000 at SPB PCD
Now live in: Coimbatore at Ananya's Nana Nani homes situated in Dhaliyur.
Spouse: Indira Raman
Son: Suresh is working in Dubai as Vice President in Sun Power a company owned by an Indian. Married to Priya who is doing business. Their daughter Sanjana Suresh is studying Madeline in Budapest.
Daughter: Savitha Prabu at Bangalore. Doing agriculture with her husband Mr.Prabu Ramaswamy. Their son Sashank Prabu is studying Computer Technology at Bangalore
Current Status: Retired
Name: A.K. Radhakrishnan
SPB Period: 1977 to 2003 at Mill and then at SPB Chennai office
Now live in: Thoraipakkam, OMR, Chennai
Spouse: Maheshwari
Sons:
R. Vasanth, working in Amazon, San Francisco. Married and two grand sons.
R. Sharath, working in Sales Force, San Francisco. Just married.
Current Status: Officially retired as Chief Manager from SPB but continue on contractual employment at SPB, Chennai
Additional Info: Amateur player on Tennis, Badminton
Name. B G Kulkarni
SPB Period: 1962 to 1985
Now live in: Pune
Spouse: Shanta. S
Son: Aalok
Daughters: Two. Aarti and Aditi
Current Status: Fully Retired
Name: A. Banerjee
SPB period: 1964-67, 1982-92
Now live in: Raipur
Spouse: Late Manjushree Banerjee (2019)
Sons:
Nirbhik, Executive Director and CEO RDCIS, SAIL Ranchi (one son + One daughter)
Moinak, Chief Scientist, DBT-RGCB (GOI), Thiruvananthapuram.(Two Sons)
Prantik, Chief Controller Railways, Raipur(one son + One daughter)
Name. G. Ram Manohar
SPB Period: 1972 to 2002
Now live in: Chennai
Spouse: R. Chitra
Sons : Gopal & Ravi
Daughter: Kavitha
Current status. Technical Director at Agro Pulping Machinery Pvt Ltd
Name: T. Jeyapal
SPB Period: 1966 to 2004 & 2005 to 2010 at SPB PC
Now live in: Velachery, Chennai.
Spouse: (Late) Kamakshi (2017)
Son: J. Kannan Software Engineer, Chennai
Daughter: Rajalakshmi in Trichy
Name: P. N. Jagannathan
SPB Period: 1961 to 1994
Now living in: Srirangam
Spouse: Vasantha, MA., B.Ed., Dip in Geo - Retired School Vice Principal
Son: J. Badrinath, MBA - RDM at CUB, currently resides with his wife and son in Chennai.
Daughter: J. Usha, PhD - Staff Engineer at McKinsey, currently resides with her husband and 3 kids in USA
Current Status: Retired as Accounts Manager from SPB
Name: R. Hariharan
SPB period: 1967 to 2000
Now live in: Coimbatore No 5 Happy Gardens Vadavalli Coimbatore
Spouse: Rajalakshmi Hariharan .
Daughter: Priya now at UK
Currant Status: Retired life with the savings at SPB as advised by Mr NGR and DV Reddy
Name: K. E. Kalyanaraman
SPB Period: 1963 to 1998. Joined as Chemist, then Quality Control and Marketing.
Now live in: Bangalore
Spouse: Shantha, Home maker
Son: Ashok, GM in BHEL, Married to Priya, Home maker
Grand sons: Elder one: after working for Cisco for 2 years, has joined IIM, Indore
Younger one doing 3rd year in NIT, Suratkal
Elder daughter: Sujatha, English Teacher in BVB , Erode. Son in law: English Professor in Vellalar college,Erode
Younger daughter: Sripriya, Works in Pfizer, Philadelphia. Son in law: Works in U Penn, Philadelphia
Two grand daughters both studying in U Penn, Philadelphia
Current Status: Enjoying Retired life, spending time with son, daughter, grand sons in India and with daughter, grand daughters in Philadelphia (We both are green card holders)
Name: Ganesh Natarajan
SPB period: Dee 1982 to Mar 1991 & Jul 2004 to Aug 2006 .
Now live in: Madurai.
Spouse: Mrs. Manju Ganesh.
Son: Mr. Aditya Ganesh.
Current Status: Retired from BEML, Bangalore as Executive Director - HR in 2014. Now as Vice Chairman with Velammal Educational Trust, Madurai, taking care of an Engineering college and 8 Schools.
Name: Gopal Krishnamurthy
SPB period: 1980 to 1983
Now live in: Bangaleru
Spouse Name: Shanthi
Daughter (s): Two Settled abroad.
Current Status: Paper consultant after retirement.
Name - Ramachandra D
SPB period - 1966 - 1979
Now live in - Bangalore
Spouse- Usha Ramachandra
Son- Sreesha D
Grand daughter- Sanjana D. Joining medicine
Current status - Secretary
Sri Lakshmi Venkatesha Prathistana
Add. Information- Managing Institution from Primary to Degree college and starting a old age home, building is ready.
Name : T. K .Parthasarathy
SPB Period: 1964 to 1980 Soda Recovery
1980 -1995 Marketing ( 80 to 82 worked at Cameroon)
Now live in : Chennai
Spouse : Vasantha Parthasarathy
Daughter : Jamuna now in Boston -married to Sundar -Blessed with Two sons
Son : Manoj now in Folsom , California married to Daya blessed with two sons
Current status : Writing books -Taking classes on Vaishnavism-Attending conferences and presenting papers
Addl info : After retirement, started studying Vaishnavism and got PhD from Madras University.So far published 5 books on Vaishnavism and recent addition is the publication of my thesis “Transcedence and Immanence in Visishtadvaita Philosophy “
Name: N. S. Ponnusamy
SPB period: 1965 - 2018
Now live in: Erode
Spouse: P. Dhanalakshmi
Daughter (s): Two
Current Status: At home
Address: Door No. 262/7, Nagarachi Nagar Merku Road, Punjailakkapuram, Erode - 638002
Name: N. R. Mohan Rao
SPB Period:1999 to 2005. VP (Tech) at the time of leaving
Now live in: Coimbatore
Spouse: M. Radha, Housewife
Daughters: Two. Married and settled in Chennai
Current status: Settled in Coimbatore
Detailed Profiles of Wards
Name: Ramadorai Arunkumar (Arun)
SPB period: May 1966 to June 1984 (?)
Now live in: Chicago, USA
Spouse: Sushmita (Bhartanatyam dancer and dance teacher)
Daughter: Adithi - pursuing undergraduate degree in Actuarial Sciences, Mathematics and Risk Management at University of Wisconsin, Madison
Current Status: Principal Technologist, Wind River Systems, Alameda, CA, USA. Work in the Professional Services division with focus in the Aerospace and Defense domain.
Name: Subramanian Viswanathan (Ramani)
SPB period: 1969 to June 1988
Now live in: Kendall Park, NewJersi - USA
Spouse: Swarna (working at Fulton Bank as Teller)
Daughters:.
Lakshmi (Meru). 4th year at Rutgers University (Civil Engineering)
Abitha. 1st year at Rutgers University (Comp. Sci).
Current Status: Working at United Nations Federal Credit Union (UNFCU) New York. I handle their financial planning and performance analysis.
Name: Pritham Ramamurthy (aka brother of Priya)
SPB period: 1977 to 1981
Now live in: Houston, Texas
Spouse: Mythili: Continuous Improvement Manager at University of Texas Medical Branch. MS Texas A&M Univ.
Sons:
Jayen (JJ), Software Engineer for a Startup in New York. - Dandy (Completed UG @ Stanford, Starting PG @ MIT)
Daughter: Janya, Computer Science student (Junior / 3 Year) at Rice University in Houston
Current Status:
‘Retired’ (once the kids left home to pursue other interests) after 30 years in the Refining and Petrochemical business as Executive Director – Mega-projects
2021 –
UTHealth: School of Biomedical Informatics – Natural Language Processing Research.
Manager for a COVID-19 National Program, Alzheimer’s Disease (with UPenn), and Cancer Adverse Reactions (with Vanderbilt).
2021-
University of St. Thomas: Adjunct Professor – Sustainable Development (Post Graduate Program).
2021-2023
University of Houston: Currently a full time student in World Cultures and Literature.
Thesis plan: T.M. Soundararajan
Current paper – Ellis R Dungan Movies (Ambikapathy, Shakunthalai, Meera, Ponmudi and Manthirikumari – others are not in archives).
Name: Pradeep Ravindranathan (brother of Preetha )
SPB period: 1979-83 full time and all summer holidays from 1972-1979
Now live in: Boulder, Colorado
Spouse: Deepa , works in the local school district
Son : Vishal: Completed Undergrad in Economics from University of Colorado, Boulder. Currently, doing his Masters in Economics at University of Reading, UK
Daughter : Meghna: Doing first year in Biomedical at Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Current Status: Partner / Director in IBM.
Name: Chandrika Arvind
SPB Period: 1971 to 1987
Now live in : Chennai (Valmiki Nagar)
Spouse: Arvind, Owns a company Metamation, works in the area of Robotics
Son: Ashwin, studied film making in London and now in Chennai as an independent film maker and editor
Current Status: Tutor for children with special needs. Now on break due to Covid-19
Additional Info: Daughter of P. S. Krishnamurthy Electrical Department Lived in emergency quarters and A type quarters.
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