Prof. R.C.Sekhar had a distinguished career in Government and in the corporate sector, prior to joining IRMA. He was an officer of the Indian Audit and Accounts Services, a qualified cost accountant, (with a  a gold medal?), and had served in policy positions in the corporate sector - with the public sector Coal India, and the private sector EMI (the earlier gramaphone company HMV). He joined IRMA in 1983, and was probably the first full time faculty member of IRMA, who had mainstream business management  experience( the other faculty at that time being raw FPMs/PhDs or full time academics). We can still hear the booming laugh that he used to punctuate all his sentences with. He was a warm person, ready to share his views without any inhibition.