Ravi Krishnan

Managing Director

Ravi Krishnan is the Managing Director at Krishnan & Associates. Ravi brings over 17 years experience in management consulting & recruitment services in the power and infrastructure industry. His areas of expertise are technical marketing, recruitment, management, and business restructuring.

He has initiated many relationships among large utilities and OEMs such as General Electric, Babcock Power, Southern Company, Caterpillar, Tata Group, Doosan Babcock, Adani Group, Imerys, etc.

He also conducts corporate training seminars on restructuring, benchmarking, business development and human resources. His work has been published in over 250 domestic and internal publications & trade journals. He frequently conducts training program and speaks at various domestic & international conferences.

John Evans

Technical Marketing Specialist

John’s energy industry expertise stems from over 25 years in technical sales, marketing and business development of environmental technologies. Earlier in his career he was involved in the marketing of a range of environmental systems including solid fuel combustion equipment and associated ash handling ancillaries, flue gas conditioning systems, ammonia vaporization, metering, and injection systems for SCR applications, filtration and separation equipment and systems, cryogenic refrigeration systems, and abrasion-resistant linings for piping, vessels, and equipment. 

He has worked extensively with power plants across the nation in helping them achieving compliance for environmental emissions and upgrades.  He brings extensive knowledge of current and emerging regulations for NOx, SO2, Hg and PM emissions in USA, Europe and Asian markets.

Luke Raithel

Marketing Specialist

Luke Raithel has been with K&A for 10 years. Luke’s expertise is in market research using primary and secondary research methodologies. At K&A, Luke has been involved with market communications and research projects involving air pollution control equipment for power plants, boilers, turbines, and generator control technologies. His research has also extended into the field of coal mining in the United States and abroad as well as bulk material handling.

He has created marketing deliverables for air preheater seals and selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalysts. Additionally, Luke aided in the establishment of Krishnan and Associates’ new video conferencing center in their Stamford, CT office. Luke has a BS degree in Marketing from Bentley University.

Loredana Britka Recruitment & Marketing Analyst

Loredana Britka has been with Krishnan and Associates for the last 10 years, in an administrative, research and recruitment role. Loredana is in charge of managing and maintaining all Krishnan & Associates’ databases. She coordinates workflows on assigned marketing, research, and analytical projects. Loredana also promotes business opportunities for K&A by executing direct marking campaigns through a variety of communication channels.

Loredana has a BS degree in Law from Romania, and two AS in Business Administration and Accounting in USA.

Kaival Shah, India

Market Research

Kaival Shah is a Business Analyst with Krishnan & Associates (K&A). Kaival is consistently involved with marketing, recruitment and business development projects within the Power, Mining, and Energy sectors in India. Kaival maintains regular contact with various regulatory authorities and the Indian power market at large and has played a vital role in updating and analyzing various aspects of this market report.

Kaival has a Masters Degree in Business Administration from University of Hartford, USA and a Masters in Commerce from Symbiosis College, Pune.

Bob Peltier

Technical Writer & Energy & Infrastructure Industry

Bob began his power industry career with the regulated utility, San Diego Gas & Electric Co., followed by positions with the unregulated power developer Energy Factors (now part of Sithe Global), gas turbine supplier Solar Turbines, Inc., and later was manager of production engineering Stewart & Stevenson’s Gas Turbine Division (now part of General Electric). Dr. Peltier was also a tenured professor at Arizona State University for eight years where he taught numerous power-related courses. In 1999, Captain Peltier was recalled to active duty in the United States Navy to serve in Washington, DC on the staff of the Naval Sea Systems Command. He left active duty in September 2002 joining the POWER magazine’s editorial staff as senior editor

Bob was named POWER’s Editor-in-Chief on April 1, 2003. Bob has a BS, MS, and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and is a registered engineer in California and Arizona.

H V Guru Murthy, India Business Development

H V Guru Murthy received a BSc (Bachelor of Science) degree from National College, Bangalore and a B.E (Bachelor of Engineering) degree from University Vishweswariah College of Engineering, Bangalore. 

Guru has over 36 years experience in the power industry. Joined Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited as Engineer Trainee and retired as General Manager. He has worked at BHEL, Trichy and Ranipet in Air Quality Control Systems (ESP) Engineering department for 18 years in various fields of Proposals & Contract engineering, Product engineering, Field engineering services, Testing, Model studies and R&D. He has also submitted various technical papers / articles in number of seminars and technical booklets.

Later he was in-charge of Marketing of ESPs, Bag Filters, Steel Chimney, Ash & Coal handling Systems, Steel Structurals and associated Systems, before moving to Noida to Power Sector Technical Services. He also has experience in Spares & Services Business Group for 15 years. 

He is also a Fellow of Institution of Engineers (India) in Environmental Division.