Capt Muthukrishnan Iyyappan

* Captain Muthukrishnan Iyyappan, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Eka Academy, who was commissioned in 1999, was the first officer of the Territorial Army to be permanently seconded to the regular army. He joined the 3rd battalion of 8 Gorkha Rifles and served a tenure at the Siachen Glacier — again the first officer of Territorial Army to serve in the Siachen Glacier. Capt. Muthukrishnan Iyyappan was also the first officer of the Territorial Army to be posted at the Defense Services Staff College where he was the Officer Commanding - Troops during 1999-2000. His tenure as company commander with the 109 Marata Light Infantry (TA) at Srinagar, the state of Jammu and Kashmir, witnessed the first ever Fidayeen (suicide) attack in the history of Kashmir insurgency in April 2000.. Captain Muthukrishnan Iyyappan has also been selected one of the 50 most inspiring CEOs of 2017.