Largo, Florida – October 7, 2013 – Beckwith Electric’s President, Dr. Murty V.V.S. Yalla, received the Businessman of the Year Award from the Indo-US Chamber of Commerce during their 2013 Banyan Ball held at the Renaissance Marriott Hotel in Tampa, Florida on September 7th, 2013. The award was presented by Mr. Dilip Patel, Board Member of the Indo-US Chamber of Commerce and a partner in Shutts & Bowen’s Corporate Immigration Group.
Dr. Yalla joined Beckwith Electric in 1989 as a design engineer and has been the company’s president since 2005. Prior to joining Beckwith Electric, Dr. Yalla taught and conducted research on digital power system protection at Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada.
Dr. Yalla received a BSEE from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada, India in 1981; a MSEE from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, India in 1983; and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Brunswick, Canada in 1987.
Dr. Yalla is the Deputy Technical Advisor to the United States National Committee (USNC) of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC, Geneva, Switzerland) Technical Committee 95. As a chair of the IEC TC95 MT4 since 2005, Dr. Yalla heads up a 13 nation delegation in developing International Standards for the Electric Power System Protection.
He was a US representative to the International Council on Large Electric Systems (CIGRÈ, Paris, France) Working Groups dealing with protection of Electric Power Generators and Transformers. He is also a member and subject matter expert of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) System Protection and Control Subcommittee (SPCS).
In 2006, Dr. Yalla was elected to Fellow grade by the IEEE Fellow Committee for his contributions in computer relays for power systems. He is presently the Chair of the Rotating Machinery Protection Subcommittee of the IEEE Power System Relaying Committee. He was the chairman of the working group which developed IEEE Standard C37.102-2006, “Guide for AC Generator Protection.” He co-authored an IEEE PES tutorial on the “Protection of Synchronous Generators.”
He received the IEEE Florida Council Outstanding Engineer Award in 2005. Dr. Yalla also received the IEC 1906 Award in 2010 which honors the IEC experts around the world in recognizing their exceptional recent achievements and contributions to the IEC committees.
About Indo-US Chamber of Commerce
The Indo-US Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1999 by Indian American businessmen and professionals in the Tampa Bay community. Its mission is to provide an active forum in which Asian American professionals and business owners, through an exchange of ideas, with a unified voice, can communicate, interact, and secure a position within the business industry and become a source of inspiration by promoting professionalism and excellence through education and community involvement.
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INDO-US Chamber of Commerce
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About Beckwith Electric
Founded in 1967, Beckwith Electric introduced the first solid state tapchanger control in 1968, and was the first to develop the microprocessor protective relay in 1981. Today, Beckwith Electric has thousands of protection and control units in service worldwide, with a reputation for cutting-edge technology, defined by its customers and refined by Beckwith. This success starts with Beckwith Electric Employees and their commitment to quality in the products, all 100% designed and manufactured in Largo, Florida, U.S.A.
Beckwith’s field-proven smart distribution automation controls for transformers, regulators and capacitor banks incorporate unique control strategies, advanced microprocessor architecture and cyber security compliant communications. Power systems protection solutions include generator, transformer, feeder, recloser and distributed generation applications. Specialized synchronizing and motor bus transfer systems are also offered.
Beckwith Electric’s customers include power utilities, heavy industrial and large institutional markets, and their consultants.
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