About Me
My name is Prakash Subbarao. I am from Bangalore and am 56 years old.Specifically, for the minority who are interested in details, I am a Brahmin from the Babburkamme community, a community which is over 1200 years old.
I have been in the marketing stream since 1975, when I joined a British MNC called Chloride India Limited in Calcutta as a Management Trainee. By age 35 I was a National sales manager of a company in the billion dollar Murugappa Group in Chennai.
I am a mechanical engineer from UVCE (1974 batch). I have undergone short term management training at Indian Institutes of Management Ahmadabad and Bangalore (residential executive training programs).
I am a marketing and management consultant and in addition have picked up technical expertise on internet search areas such as “Search Engine optimization” (SEO). I offer SEO consultancy to companies.
I have been running Spark Consultants (my own company) in Bangalore since 1988.
I took Spark Consultants to Dubai between 1998 and 2004, and was based there during that period. I am now based in Bangalore, India.The above pic is of me trying to be photographed with a wild camel. The story of our encounter is interesting......do find out how the above camel became the first camel from UAE on the internet!
Some interesting things that I have done in the past:
Started my own consulting company, Spark Consultants, in 1988. Ran Bangalore’s first corporate bulletin board service (BBS) called SparkNet in pre-internet days with a dedicated server and a dedicated telephone line.
Created an HRD magazine called Techno Spark that was, in its heydays, mailed free of cost to thousands of companies all over South India. It supplied summarized résumés from A (Accountants) to W (Welders) to companies. It was something “different”. It opened very many doors for me……….from Birla 3M to TVS Suzuki and many companies in between.
Developed Spark Consultants into Bangalore’s largest internet services company during the period 1990 – 1998 and boasted a blue chip clientele.
Was invited to address the Indo-American Chamber Of Commerce, Bangalore, India in 1996 as a specialist speaker on how to use the Internet to increase business.
Created a 450 page portal on Dubai. Sold it recently to a British real estate company in Dubai for $10K. Excited by this, I am now working on a Dubai megaportal Gr8dubai.com. It has already crossed 500 pages and is scheduled to launch some time in end 2008.
Created The Bangalore Quiz Group in September 2004. Today it is perhaps one of the largest and most active groups in the country with the highest number of online / offline quizzes being offered on a variety of subjects. How and why I started the Bangalore Quiz Group makes interesting reading.
Have conducted quizzes for the corporate sector, for colleges as well as schools in India and abroad (I conducted the Inter-school quiz competition in Kuwait in 2006. The quiz was organized by the Kuwait Kannada Koota).
Am the Quiz Club Facilitator of the Bethany School Quiz Club.
The bug to do my bit for society bit me some time in 2007. Started BangaloreGiri. It's doing very well! If you see this, and are from Bangalore........ and would like to do your bit for Bangalore, become a member! All you need to do, to become a member, is to send me an email. Please also tell all your friends about this initiative.
And finally..........I got into politics! I am currently the Bangalore Chapter head of the Professionals Party of India. If you are a professional and would like to do your bit for society, joining the PPI is a good way forward.
Hobbies:
• Surfing the net
• Evaluating new software
• Watching movies
• Travelling - have been to Kuwait, Thailand and Canada recently........
• Reading (mainly non-fiction and management books)
• Photography!!! Would you like to take a look at some of my best pics?
• Writing! I have experienced many an interesting thing in life. Do read my stories.....
• Search engine optimization. It's great fun and I also make money doing what I like!!!Family: my wife, Saroj, is a teacher with the Jain International Residential School. Our daughter lives in Calgary, Canada – she is married and has a lovely little four year old son called Rayan. Our son, Shakti, works for a BPO.
I hope this brief summary has helped you to get to know me better.
Regards and best wishes,
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