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BARNABAS TIBURTIUS – A PROFILE

Born in 1942 in Thiruchirappalli, India, he studied Latin, Mathematics and Science in his pre-graduation days at Sacred Heart Matriculation School, Tirupattur, Tamilnadu, India. He then graduated from P.S.G. College of Technology, Coimbatore,Madras University in Electrical Engineering specializing in Electronics and Control systems in 1965. His post graduate training is varied and comprises of specialization in Transaction analysis and Jungian psychology. He was awarded an Honoris Causa, Doctorate in Business Administration, for his lifetime contribution towards a highly professional, successful and ethical management.

He worked for thirty six years in the field of Process & Industrial Control. He was instrumental in introducing Gate Array LSI technology, for the first time in India, in Industrial Alarm monitoring in Thermal and Nuclear power stations and did pioneering import substitution in oil field pump head automation. He also pioneered the indigenous introduction of Intrinsic safety in a major way in Petro-Chemical process in India saving millions of Dollars through import substitution for the Indian government. He was awarded the ‘Indira Gandhi Piriyadarshini Award – 1993’ for technical contribution to the country by the then Speaker of Lok Sabha, Mr. Shivraj Patil. He was Managing Director of various high tech companies for 25 years. He had held the position of Group Board Director of a multi-national company in the UK from 1996 to 1999 before being appointed ‘President – Asia-Pacific’ until his retirement in 2002. During his tenure as President of Asia-Pacific he organized seven major strategic alliances with high tech companies in Europe, Australia and the USA. He also set up a trading company in Shanghai for a European multinational company.

He has travelled widely in Asia, Australia, Europe and USA. Throughout his life, he is involved in multi-discipline learning and his field of inquiry covers Cosmology, Sustainable Technology, Strategic Leadership, Integral & Systemic thinking and Spirituality. He has authored many papers and articles. He is good communicator and systemic thinker and has delivered many keynote addresses, endowment lectures and empowering talks.

In 2002, he started a second career in writing and Social Entrepreneurship. He is currently the Managing Trustee of AMITA FOUNDATION, a public charitable Trust for education of socially challenged children. He is the mentor of an initiative called ‘SPARK’ for spiritual empowerment and regularly conducts workshops in integrative approach to Spirituality He authors a web resource and blog. His articles and papers can be accessed in his website www.livingspark.net and his bi-weekly blog can be read at http://blog.livingspark.net