About Cherak Engineers

As a young boy, C.Ramakrishnan watched his father with great fascination creating beautiful things out of wood. He was studying at school and the daily route took him through forest areas dotted with old constructions and monuments. As an impressionable boy, he had an above the average aptitude and nurtured ideas of stepping beyond the realm of ordinary education and becoming a professional involved with the environment, design and decoration.

His hopes were were fulfilled in a strange manner when, during a crisis in the family business, he was withdrawn from school and was required to work alongside his father in the construction work. At a very early age, he had begun drawing - now it was almost a compulsion. He instinctively absorbed colours and with the passing of time brought radical departure in the approach to materials and processes. The secret of his designing was that he never designed anything that he did know how to produce with his own hands.

Working with his father provided him with an excellent grounding not only at the professional but also at the business level and by the year 1996, barely at the age of 24, Ramakrishnan stuck out on his own and started Cherak Engineers, setting up his workshop equipped with machinery, transport, labour and clientele. He had also received training in the Computer Application and Design center, an it was not as though he sat in and office and received reports from managers about technical details with which he was unfamiliar. he had grasped the nature of those he employed, understanding their limitations as well as their capabilities.

He was in direct relation with the public, in the form of the firm's professional and private clients, and was responsible for overall design, decision and quality control, After working on a couple of residential buildings where he proved his perfectionist excellence, he plunged into corporate work with great buoyancy.

Ramakrishnan has plans for expanding his business beyond Chennai and branching off in the cities of Bangalore, Coimbatore and Hyderabad, and at a later stage he might envisage an all-india chain of workshops. He operates in a highly competitive environment and has succeeded because he has understood the business very well. Ramakrishnan is a practical, hard-working, imaginative and original man of affairs. The success of Cherak Engineers owes much less to good fortune than it does to Ramakrishnan himself.