R Gopalakrishnan
CEO, Mind Works, Former Director Tata Sons | Ex-Unilever VC | Corporate Advisor | Leadership Coach | Best-selling Author & Speaker

Gopalkrishnan has been a corporate leader for 58 years: 31 in Unilever, 18 in Tata, and over a decade as an author and commentator. He served in Jeddah as Chairman of Unilever Arabia, in Bangalore as Managing Director of Brooke Bond Lipton and Vice Chairman of Hindustan Lever, and as director of Tata Sons. Apart from serving as a director on the TATA parent board, Tata Sons, and he serves as an independent director of Press Trust of India (PTI). Gopal mentors few start-ups. He is actively engaged in both instructional and inspirational speaking. Gopal has been a newspaper columnist and continues to write every month for fnancial papers. He has also authored twenty books since 2007. He is Distinguished Professor of IIT Kharagpur. He is a past president of the All India Management Association. Gopal has a wide repertoire of subjects, specically – Business in India, Markets and Customers, Governance and Strategy, Organisation and People, and Innovation. He relies on practical examples, rich with anecdotes rather than theory or analytical frame works. He has taught an unusual courses at B school titled “LWNT
learning what nobody teaches”