Captain T.N.Pranesha, I.N. (Retd) was born
on 21st September 1947 at Bangalore. After schooling & Pre
University at Shimoga, Karnataka, he
joined Engineering and completed his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical
Engineering (BE) from National College of Engineering, University of Mysore in early
1969. He was commissioned in Indian Navy after his post graduate studies at
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore during December 1970.
During his
tenure in Navy, apart from serving on various Warships in different capacities
has done a long tenure at LRDE, Bangalore and there after headed the Naval EMC
group. While in Navy he did tenure in USA, in the capacity of Chief Engineer of
EMI / EMC consultancy program which has resulted in setting up of EMI /EMC
facilities and amalgamation of EMI / EMC processes in the main stream Navy to
support all their operations.
Besides, he
has done MSc (Defense studies) from DSSC Wellington, Higher Command Course from
Naval College of Warfare and a Short program on R & D Management from
University of Manchester, UK.
He served
in Navy for about 23 years and took pre-matured retirement to join Central
Research Laboratory of BEL in 1994 where he served for over 6 years. There
after he had been with two technologies startup companies driving successful
cutting edge technology development programs. He joined Alpha Design
Technologies in 2006 and heading the developmental projects group there in. He is
currently serving as an Executive Director in Alpha Design Technologies, where
he is driving the NCW projects & programs.
Currently, he is steering SDR, IFF and Missile Seeker
programs at ADTL.