Karthik P (KP):

Karthik is the founder and chief coach at August Academy.  He has a B. Tech in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Madras and a Ph. D. in Aerospace Engineering from Stanford University. Karthik scored a 770 on the GMAT recently (99 percentile).  He was recently selected to attend the Sloan Fellows program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

In his previous lives, he’s worked on projects for the US Department of Defense, Air Force and NASA on topics as varied as missile control, air traffic management and aircraft survivability. He’s developed cloud based software for identifying energy efficient cooling techniques for data centers. He’s also worked with the world’s largest automaker (General Motors) to improve the design of its vehicles.  While he was at GM, he received several awards for outstanding research collaboration.

He is passionate about using Technology to make our lives better.  He is also a self professed Math Geek with a new found love for big data.

Karthik is an expert contributor to GMAT club. August Academy is his opportunity to meet with some of the brightest and most motivated people across the world.  His students at August Academy study at some of the best Business schools in the world.

Here’s a video about Karthik.