GVK Reddy, born 22 March 1937, is a philanthropist and entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman of GVK Group, a business conglomerate with a predominant focus on infrastructure development, https://www.gvk.com/

Gunupati Venkata Krishna Reddy (born 22 March 1937) is a philanthropist and entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman of the GVK Group (https://www.gvk.com) a major Indian business conglomerate with a predominant focus on infrastructure development.  He also heads GVK EMRI, the corporate social responsibility initiatives of the GVK Group.As the President of the All India Senior Tennis Association and a tennis player himself, he has been a keen supporter of budding tennis talent.This episode is my reading of the chapter on his life in my book Added Value (Roli Books, 2010).What are particularly interesting for me are the stories of his mischievous and boisterous childhood and how all this changed as a result of what happened in one class in school.Please note that these interviews took place some time ago - over 25 years ago in the case of the South East Asian life story book and around 10 to 15 years ago in the case of the two Indian life story books.  However, their stories are correct to the time of the interviews and the objective is to demonstrate the entrepreneurial skills they exhibited at the time of the interviews in building their businesses.