Watson Research Center for over three decades as Research Staff Member. Distinguished Visiting Professor of International Entrepreneurship and a member of the Business advisory Council of Great Lakes Institute of Management in Chennai, India.Īshok Vasudevan graduated in Agricultural Sciences from Bangalore, and post graduate degrees at Bajaj Institute of Management in Bombay and the Harvard Business School.ĭr.
Member of the Chairman’s Circle of the US-India Business Council,.Director on the Board of The Fairfield County Business Council.He is involved in several non-profit organizations in India and the US including: He received Pepsi’s prestigious MVP award in 1991.īefore joining Pepsi, Ashok spent 10 years with Unilever in various functions that included Management Development, Sales & Marketing and International Business Prior to Tasty Bite, Ashok headed the India desk of Pepsi World Trade in Somers, New York. ×Īshok Vasudevan is Co-founder & CEO of Preferred Brands International, a Connecticut-based food company that makes Tasty Bite and a range of other natural, ethnic and specialty foods sold in major supermarkets globally. Meera has a Bachelors in English with post-graduate qualifications in Marketing from the University of Madras and INSEAD, France. She has served on some non-profit boards in the US, and is currently on the board of the United Way of Western Connecticut. She worked on a number of entry strategies for global brands looking to enter the Indian market and on national social research projects for UNICEF. After nearly a decade there, Meera co-founded India’s first specialist and largest qualitative research firm, Quantum Market Research. Meera began her career in market research at MARG (Marketing & Research Group), India. Meera also co-founded ASG-Omni a US and India based consulting firm involved in the design and execution of entry strategies for large US corporations looking to do business in India. :)Īnyway, "The Wizard" is great (it's Mark Clarke singing the bridge BTW), "Tales" is another fav and early song "High Priestess" is a nice ditty with Hensley on lead vocals.Meera Vasudevan is Co-founder of Preferred Brands International, a Connecticut-based food company that makes Tasty Bite, a range of natural, ethnic food sold in major supermarkets around the world. They were very popular in Finland and no wonder as many of Hensley's songs sound like Finnish schlagers, only with more distortion on guitar. They have a decent song here and there and a long list of awesome bassplayers but generally the cabaret -like acts of David Byron (good singer but I can't stand his voice) and almost proto-powermetal style writing of Ken Hensley got on my nerves. I used to listen to Heep quite a lot but got eventually rid of the albums. The band called him Joni Sloman 'cause he used to play Joni Mitchell songs on a piano.
Some of the tracks like "No Return" were originally his songs from when he had a band called Pulsar (featuring Pino Palladino and Greg Dechert). Sloman himself admitted that he was a wrong guy for the job because the band didn't want to change.
The album with John Sloman on vocals (Conquest) is "interesting" in that he was such a different singer. Firefly is the first and best, the other two are much the same in quality as the later Byron albums.Īpart from their first 4 albums I also have a soft spot for Firefly and High & Mighty. Of what followed, the Lawton albums mostly move towards soft-rock. Probably would have been better to have released fewer albums. The four Byron albums after that point are all much the same too much weak material. I hear a slight dip on The Magician's Birthday, with some below-par meat and potatoes/'boogie' material like 'Spider Woman' making the cut. The next three (Salisbury/Look At Yourself/Demons And Wizards) have always been my favourites and are as strong as anyone's hard rock from the time IMHO. The throwaway tracks to me are 'Walking In Your Shadow', 'Lucy Blues' (the US version elbowed this dud in favour of an early version of 'Bird Of Prey') and 'Real Turned On'. What happened with that one was that they were still putting the line-up together, there's three (!) different drummers and some of it was done even before Ken Hensley had joined- the tracks with Mellotron aren't him.
I still rate them, but it's the first four/five albums which have their best work.Īs for the debut, I don't agree that it's only 'Gypsy'.
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