R. Gopalakrishnan is an author, speaker and a corporate advisor. He studied physics at Calcutta University, engineering at IIT Kharagpur, and attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. Gopalakrishnan has served as Chairman, Unilever Arabia; Managing Director, Brooke Bond Lipton; Vice-chairman, Hindustan Lever; and Director, Tata Sons and several other Tata companies. He also serves as an independent director of Castrol India and Hemas Holdings PLC, Sri Lanka. Gopal mentors a few start-ups and is actively engaged in both instructional and inspirational speaking. Some of his bestselling books are Six Lenses: Vignettes of Success, Career and Relationships and A Comma in a Sentence.