Akhila Srinivasan is currently the Managing Director of Shriram Investments Limited is a prominent business woman of India. She is also associated with several social welfare activities and initiatives. She is the recipient of several awards, including Outstanding Women Professional Award (200-01) instituted by the FICCI.She is also honorary Dutch Consul in India, and is based in Chennai, South India. In addition, she holds the position of State President of the Art of Living Foundation for the state of Tamil Nadu, India.
Her father retired as an Executive Engineer in PWD. He is the grandson of Diwan Bahadur K S Ramaswamy Sastrigal,who was a High Court Judge, a contemporary of Rajaji, a great Sanskrit Scholar, a public speaker, well known in his times. Her mother has been a housewife. She came from a middle class family. She did my B.A and M.A in Economics in Seethalakshmi Ramaswami College.
When she was doing her MA, she got married and came back to Chennai with my husband. She pursued herM Phil in Economics. Then her son was born and she was at stay home mother for two and a half years. It was at that time that she happened to see a newspaper advertisement by the Shriram Group calling for Executive trainees. That is how she joined this Group in 1986.
Akhila Words:
"My Mother taught me the value of patience,"Akhila asserts."She vested all her hopes and faith in me and ensured that i received the best exposure"
My attitude in life has always been to give my one-hundred-percent in whatever I take up. I will not look at the immediate returns or reward. It is not enough to merely make a mark and get known. One should strive to derive satisfaction in the pursuit of perfection and excellence. I have been oriented to that. When I joined this group, I found myself in a very good environment. I still remember what our Chairman told the Executive Trainees. The Chairman's words enthused many youngsters like me to commit ourselves totally to the task of building the Shriram group. There was a sense of idealism.
The credit of helping us to imbibe that spirit goes to Mr. Thyagarajan. The focus was on trying to do your job well and contribute meaningfully to the growth of the organisation.When you focus on that other things come automatically. Your rise in the career, your position, they are all incidental. The aim was not towards that kind of a personal gratification. It was more oriented towards giving one's best to the growth of the organisation.
I feel so blessed to be born a woman. It is the woman who nurses the heart that has nurtured motherhood itself. The experience of motherhood and womanhood cannot be substituted for anything else in the world. I feel very privileged, blessed and proud to be a woman.
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