Galla Ramachandra Naidu (born 10 June 1938) is an Indian industrialist, the founder and former chairman of the Amara Raja Group of companies.
[1] He is married to Galla Aruna Kumari, an ex.minister in the Andhra Pradesh state government.
After leaving Michigan, he worked as an Electrical Engineer for Sargent & Lundy a consulting engineers firm engaged in the design of Fossil and nuclear Power projects.
He returned to India in the 1980s, when he founded Amara Raja Group in Chittoor; the group spun off a number of subsidiaries, including Galla Foods and Mangal Precision Products.
They include the Krishna Devaraya Educational & Cultural Association, which provides educational scholarships to poor students in higher education, and the Rajanna Trust and Mangal Trust, which works on providing accessible water supplies to villages, and also help a lot of poor people.