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Mr. K. Dileep Kumar

Born in Mumbai on 30th July 1926, Mr. K. Dileep Kumar, a nonagenarian, hails from a family of legal luminaries and high-ranking administrators who had excelled for their patriotism, diplomacy, sincerity and devotion to duty, during the British rule in India.

An astute corporate governance professional and a specialist in scientific management Mr. Kumar is a longtime member of professional bodies in the field of financial and cost management, audit and corporate law, he has been a paper-setter, examiner, lecturer and a prolific writer on salient topics relating to the whole gamut of management.

Low profiled, soft-spoken, courteous and well-disciplined, Mr. Kumar exuberates an aura of wisdom and self-respect on sheer merits. Ever smiling, full of humility, endowed with rare physical prowess and intellectual stamina even at his advanced age of ninety, he happens to be a workaholic; and as a practicing yogi, he has attained the pinnacle of spiritual evolution. Having endured the ups and downs of mundane social life, he has reached an enviable maturity, which makes him stand tall in his own stead.

He retired on 30th July 1984 as senior executive vice president and emeritus company secretary after twenty-seven years of ever rising tenure with a British company specializing in civil engineering and roads construction.

Thereafter, he has been devoting his time and talent to several companies in the larger field of corporate governance in the capacity of vice president, internal auditor and company secretary of groups of reputable companies engaged in infrastructure industry.

Mr. Kumar is gifted with rare insight in to dealing with highly sensitive aspects of human psychology and behavioral pattern prevailing amongst the rank of executive directors and senior-most managerial personnel at various levels of their performance.

An author of scores of books on spiritual and management topics, Mr. Kumar has been an avid reader and contributor to professional journals and periodicals. In family life, he is a widower, father of two married daughters and a son, grandfather of four granddaughters and three grandsons and great grandfather of one boy.

He has been an active member of and a leader in spiritual and altruistic organizations, a recipient of several encomiums and a golden plaque of honor at the international level.

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