Manivannan U S is the founder and CEO of GVA Technocraft with an MS in Entrepreneurship, who began his career as a technical trainee at Ashok Leyland before joining ISRO. Mentored by composite expert Dr N G Narayanan, he established GVA Technocraft to design and manufacture fibreglass products—including doors, gratings, domes, and skylights—leveraging IITM's entrepreneurship ecosystem and decades of industry expertise.