In the Driving Seat: Revannth N Murugesan, Managing Director, Carbon Performance Limited
Motorbike racing, chocolate and wine feature in this month’s ‘In the Driving Seat’, but presumably not all at the same time…
Name
Revannth N Murugesan
Company
Carbon Performance Limited
Position
Managing Director
Apart
from that
MoU with HM Government (Northern Powerhouse) to promote Innovation
and Enterprise in the North, part of the Future of British Manufacturing, finalist
for the World Additive Design Challenge 2019, Member of the Sustainable Business
Partnership, soon to be a member of the Institute of Directors (IoD).
Association
with NAA
A newbie to the NAA. Initial contact was through a
partner company, when I was invited to the NAA annual dinner in Cheshire in
2018.
Why
did you join the NAA?
Being an automotive consumer tech brand that is focused
on environmental sustainability in the automotive industry, Carbon Performance
and the NAA share the common interests of boosting the North’s automotive
innovation capabilities and driving growth in sustainable transportation
solutions.
Personal
Single with a huge bias towards anything that you could
classify as a machine – lawnmowers, motorcycles, cars, aircrafts, ships, and
everything that moves! Love driving 100 miles just for a cup of hot chocolate!
Guilty of crimes against my health through my profound love for chocolates! A
glass of wine and Netflix at the end of the day is my winding down routine! A petrolhead,
geek, and a wine connoisseur – the combination cannot get any more interesting!
Favourite
football team
Football is fun and alright, but cricket is life!
Musical
performer
A R Rahman
Movie
Not a movie, but the legendary series – Peaky Blinders
Books
Blue ocean strategy and everything by Dan Brown
Best
motoring moment
This was when I was a motorsport racer back in 2014, when
I dropped my Super Sport motorcycle due to me losing my balance while engaging
the side stand of my motorcycle at the paddock. The hilarious part is that I
had been on the track for two hours straight driving at 200km/h but managed to
fall off while I was trying to get off the motorcycle at the end of the session
in the garage.
Best
business advice you’ve ever received?
Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity, and cashflow is
reality!
