1.       Brig Pogula Ganesham born in  Bhoompally village in Medak Dist of AP and is an engineering graduate from Osmania University, Hyderabad.  He is also an alumnus of reputed management Institute, FMS, Delhi University where from he graduated MBA with HRD specialization.  He completed Post Graduation in Defence science form Pune University. He is a specialist in armoured Fighting Vehicles and was responsible for many pioneering initiatives in the Army related to their design, production, sustenance, engineering support and modernization. He served the Indian Army for over three decades with distinction in many appointments including commanding a battalion in Kashmir in thick of counter insurgency operations.  

2.       He had the distinction of associating with prestigious defence projects namely, Project Sunflower, Project Gulmohar and Project White Lily and contributed immensely for their unprecedented success.  He was part of two high level Defence delegations, which visited several foreign countries. 

3.       He was the leader of the Group, which initiated Innovation into the Army successfully. He was instrumental in developing a multi-role weapon platform “Windy” for the Army, which was displayed on the Republic Day Parade 2004. He also obtained the patent for this vehicle, which happens to be the first patent of the Indian Army. 

4.       For his distinguished services, Brig Ganesham was awarded “Vishisht Seva Medal” by the President of India on the occasion of Republic Day 2005.   

5.      Brig Ganesham retired from the Army and served Bharat Dynamics Ltd as Director (Production) from 2006-9. He successfully established the production line for a state of the art missile fired from tank barrel in a record time. His initiatives brought sizeable orders worth thousands of Crores for BDL to be executed over next 5-8 years. 

 6.        Mr Ganesham lives in Secunderabad and is active in academic and professional circles.  He is a Fellow/Member of many National Professional organizations and presented many papers. He organized number of National level seminars on engineering themes He is also a Guest Faculty for ISB, IPE, NIT, Warangal, NAARM, ESCI, ASCI, SCCL, Power Grid and many other engineering and management Institutions. His new initiative to bring in ‘Tera Hertz” – A state of the art Technology into the country has yielded positive outcome so far. NIT, Warangal is establishing a Center of excellence in Tera Hertz technology for which he is one of the Directors. His expertise in patenting Rural technologies has made NAARM to introduce a new course at PG level.  

7.       Brig Ganesham subsequent to his retirement from Army formed a voluntary group “Honeybee AP” at Hyderabad to carry the mission of National Innovation Foundation (NIF) in AP. Honeybee AP scouts the grassroots innovators and endeavors to bring their hidden creative innovations into limelight for the benefit of society at large.  It also assists in obtaining patents for this knowledge. This group also publishes a quarterly “Palle Srujana” in Telugu for dissemination of grassroots innovations.  He is a Member to the National Regional Advisory Council (NRAC) and the coordinator of “HoneyBee AP”.  He organized “Shodh Yatra” in Vizag dist of AP in Jun 08 for a period of 8 days. A group of 70 volunteers from all over the country and abroad walked 100 km in Araku valley in search of traditional knowledge and creativity of the adivasis living therein. He also launched twelve Student clubs for Augmenting Innovation (SCAI) in various colleges of Andhra Pradesh.

 8.       “Gyan Shodh” - a Social Internship organized by him for 16 engg students of BITS, Pilani in Jun 09, was very effective in bringing awareness of village knowledge base to the young students. Thereafter, BITS, Pilani included “Gyan Shodh” as part of curriculum. 26 students from three BITS campuses participated in “Gyan Shodh 3” for 45 days from May to Jul 2010. He is now launching “Gyan Shodh” as a voluntary National duty for all college students to collect knowledge from one village each.         

 9.       To make CSR realistic and useful to the beneficiaries, he is shortly launching a website C2G (Linking Corporate to grassroots) in association with highly credible NGOs, which have a good track record of effective delivery systems.

 10.     Brig Ganesham and his likeminded friends have formed a non-profit NGO “Palle Srujana” with an aim to promote rural creativity and empower the rural people by bringing their valuable knowledge in to the formal world.

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