Dr. T. V. Sridhar obtained his PhD from Imperial College London in 1966, after finishing his Bachelors in Engineering from Bombay University, India in 1960. He had a vast experience of more than 40 years in the industry having worked in different capacities from Deputy Chief Design Engineer (Transformers) at Hackbridge Hewittic & Easun Limited to Director (R&D) at On Load Gears (OLG), Chennai. During his time at OLG, he had established a product line of external and internal tap changers, resistance and reactor type, dry and oil type with vacuum technology. Dr. Sridhar also briefly worked as a Lecturer at the University College, Nairobi, Kenya between 1966 and 1968. During his extensive career, he had published several research articles in international peer-reviewed journals.