PROFILE : Dr. Prasad Thotakura is a versatile community leader par excellence and has been serving the community for over 25 years. He is currently working as a Chief Operating Officer, ekNazar.com, Dallas, Texas, USA. Prior to this he was marketing manager with Mobil Oil Corporation.He resides with his wife Swarupa in Fort Worth, TX and has two married children, daughter Prasanthi and son Sudhir. Dr. Thotakura strongly feels that “helping others is not a community service but is a social responsibility.” His sincere, honest and dedicated efforts in solving complex immigration challenges, domestic disputes, emergency situations has earned him an outstanding reputation, appreciation and respect among all cross sections of the society where people regard him as the “hour-of-need.” His strategy, persistent efforts, patience, commitment and hard work were admired by one and all that elevated him as a distinguished leader in the community when he led the years of untiring efforts to build Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Plaza in Irving, TX (in 2014), the largest Gandhi Memorial in the USA. (www.mgmnt.org) Dr. Thotakura's interpersonal skills, forward, analytical thinking, helping others with sincerity and honesty designated him as an outstanding, dynamic, community and corporate leader.
Dr. Thotakura is perceived as a team player, inspiring, motivational and role model leader who responds to all emergency situations promptly. One of the recent best examples is his vision in drafting an article namely Dr. Thotakura foresaw the need of the logistics of funeral arrangements and drafted an important document with the title “The Final Journey”, helping the community as a resource guide to go through step by step process in performing the final rites respectfully. As a strong admirer of Mahatma Gandhi, with the intention of inculcating the ideals, philosophy of Gandhiji among younger generation, Dr. Prasad Thotakura donated an eight foot tall bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi (worth Rs.8 lakhs) to Sri Padmavathi Mahila Visvavidyalam, Tirupati, AP, India in 2017. Reacting to unfortunate sporadic racial discrimination incidents across the country, Dr. Prasad Thotakura created a well-informed document on “Safety Measures – Precautions to be taken thereby guiding the community. Dr. Thotakura strongly believes in merging into the main stream and plays a key role in building stronger bonds between the USA and India to foster developments in both communities. |
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