Merwin Alexander takes over as Technopark CEO

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, INDIA: The Trivandrum Technopark has a new chief executive officer (CEO). Merwin Alexander, who had been holding the post of Director of Postal Services at Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, has taken over from Siddhartha Bhattacharya who was the acting CEO after former Technopark CEO Radhakrishnan Nair quit.

Merwin Alexander belongs to the 1987 Indian Postal Service batch and has held key roles in the Department of Posts in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and New Delhi. He has also worked as Chief Vigilance Officer in Cochin Shipyard Ltd, and Cochin Port Trust and served as consultant to the Asia Pacific Postal Training Centre, Bangkok in the past.

Alexander has to his credit several papers on postal management, transparency in administration, vigilance administration etc, and also played a key role in the post office computerization in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.