Who We Are

Krishnan & Associates (K&A) is a full service technical consulting firm that provides a suite of management services to the Power & Transportation Industries. We specialize in marketing, market analysis, executive recruitment and M&A services. Our clientele includes Electric Utilities, Equipment Suppliers, Technology Firms, A&E Consultants, and other service providers to the power industry worldwide.

Krishnan & Associates is led by Mr. Ravi Krishnan and assisted by team of project consultants in the
areas of:

With our strong technical expertise, industry know-how and powerful network of contacts, we provide a comprehensive package of services that clients find invaluable to their sustained growth.

RAVI KRISHNAN – Power Industry Technical Sales & Marketing
Ravi Krishnan is Principal Consultant at Krishnan & Associates. Ravi brings over 17 years experience in marketing, market analysis, M&A support services and strategic planning for businesses in the power and transportation industry. His areas of expertise are marketing communications, strategic planning, new product and business development, business restructuring, M&A support and business transaction negotiation.

Ravi’s work in the area of air-pollution control for power and transportation industries has been covered extensively in leading industry trade publications such as Coal Outlook - Financial Times, Chemical Engineering, Electric Power Daily, Power Markets Week, Utility Environment Report, Air Daily, Energy Daily, Electric Power Alert, Electric Light & Power, Electric Utility Week, Environment Laboratory Washington Report, Clean Air Compliance Review, Power Executive, Office.Com, Pollution Online.Com, Pollution Engineering, Power Engineering, Power, Energy Pulse, Bloomberg News, Investor Business Daily, Power Marketers News, Boston Herald, Energy Central, Northeast Power Report, Diesel & Gas Turbine, Diesel Progress, Stamford Advocate, Modern Power Systems, Onsite Co-Generation & Power Production, Times of India to name a few.

Most recently, Ravi served as Executive Vice President & COO of RJM Corporation, a global provider of environmental technologies for utility and industrial boilers. His expertise is in the marketing and sales of in-furnace emission reduction technologies, Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCRs), Catalysts, Scrubbers, Baghouses and air-pollution control equipment for boilers, stationary and mobile IC engines. Prior to RJM, Ravi served a few years with Fuld & Company, a corporate intelligence firm as their Director of Environmental Practice. Ravi began his consulting career at Mississippi Power Company, an operating company of Southern Company, a large fossil fuel fired power producer.

Ravi has a Bachelors degree in Accounting and Computer Science. He earned his MBA and Master of Science in Marketing from Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA. He is a member of numerous trade associations including Air and Waste Management Association.

K&A Project Consultants by Area of Expertise (USA)

K&A utilizes the services of industry experts on a need and project basis depending on their areas of expertise. The following is a profile of some of project consultants that have participated in K&A projects in the past 2 years.

John Evans, Business Development
John Evans brings in over 25 years of experience in technical sales, marketing and business development. His previous experience involved in the sales of solid fuel combustion equipment and associated ash handling ancillaries, flue gas conditioning systems, ammonia vaporization, metering, and injection systems for SCR applications, and abrasion-resistant linings for piping and vessels. John has a Master’s Degree in chemical engineering from the Ohio State University and is a senior member of The American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

RUPA SUBRAMANIAN - Marketing Research
Rupa is associated as a Marketing Analyst at Krishnan & Associates. Rupa brings seven years of experience in marketing, research and market analysis. Prior to joining Krishnan & Associates, Rupa worked as a Marketing Executive with ORG-MARG, Ltd. where she was responsible for project management, business development and client servicing. In this role, she worked with large multinational companies such as ANZ Credit Cards, Pillsbury, Nestle, HBO and Colgate Palmolive. Before joining ORG-MARG, she worked as a Business Development Associate for Sony Entertainment Television.

Rupa is completing the Master of Business Administration (MBA) program at the University of Connecticut. She has a graduate degree in Marketing Communications and a certification in Microsoft Web Technologies.

SHEKAR NARAYANAN – Customer Information Technology
Shekar is associated as a consultant for K&A and specializes in software development, web development, information systems development, network installation and maintenance. He has over 20 years experience in the IT industry. He started his career in IT as a hardware engineer, and shifted focus to software development and network management. Shekar's expertise is in developing application software that focuses on designing user interfaces and database programming. Shekar brings very pertinent expertise in Graphics Design, Static Web Page Design using HTML, Dynamic Web Pages using JAVA, ASP.Net, C# and SQL, Database Strategy & Design, Visual Communication using Macromedia Flash (Video & Audio), Networking - Internet, IntraNet and Wide Area Network and IT automation. Additionally, he is proficient in custom software development (such as sales force management tools, customer information systems, office automation systems etc.) and designing interfaces with existing systems including mainframes and other systems like AS 400, etc.

JOHN HALLORAN, P.E. - Alliance for Technical Recruitment Projects (ProPower Resources)
For technical and executive recruiting projects, K&A has an alliance with John Halloran of ProPower Resources and uses his expertise on a need and project basis.

John Halloran has spent more than 35 years in various technical and managerial responsibilities for some of the major steam generation and flue-gas cleaning OEMs in the power generation industry. He was formerly President and C.E.O. of D B Riley Consolidated (now Babcock Power), a $200 million+ equipment supplier. Over the past year he has been providing technical and management personnel recruiting and other consulting services to all sectors of the industry through his own firm, ProPower Resources.

WILLIAM GUINEY - Technical Consultant, Renewable Energy Projects
William Guiney (Bill) has extensive working knowledge and management experience in the solar and renewable energy industry. Most recently, Bill was hired as the General Manager of the Water Heating Group to develop the solar water heating business unit for Duke Solar Energy, now known as Solargenix Energy, LLC in 2001. Prior to Duke Solar, Bill was a solar thermal specialist for the Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC) one of the most well known solar Centers in the World from 1996 to 2001. Bill is a licensed solar contractor in the State of Florida and was an instructor in solar thermal technologies, energy efficiency, and Photovoltaics. He has written many articles published in national and international trade magazines and assisted in the plans for transforming the solar thermal industry in the early 90’s. Bill is credited as a co-author the Solar Water Heating Design and Installation Manual.

Bill has extensive experience in technical analysis, public speaking, providing educational and solar information to consumers, professionals and industries around the world. His international travels as a sales representative; industry spokesperson and teacher have given him a keen analytical insight concerning the development and status of the national and international marketplace.

Bill received his AA degree in Aviation Science from Meridian College in 1976. Bill was drafted and served in the U. S. Army (1971-1974) including a tour in Viet Nam Veteran and was awarded the Bronze Star.

K&A Project Consultants/Associates (India)

In 2006, K&A established its India operations to support its U.S. operations with a team of consultants in the areas of: