R. P. Goenka

His two younger brothers were Jagdish Prasad and Gouri Prasad. On Keshav Prasad Goenka's death, his businesses were split between the three brothers. Rama Prasad Goenka (better known as RP Goenka), established RPG Enterprises in 1979.

He attended Presidency College of University of Calcutta in his home town of Kolkata and Harvard University in the United States. He was a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha, or upper house, of the Indian Parliament. Goenka was the chairman of the Board of Governors of International Management Institute and a trustee of the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund, the Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust and the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation. He was the president of the FICCI and the immediate past chairman of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur. He once served as trustee of Tirupati Temple. Goenka was twice awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure by the Emperor of Japan.

Through a series of mergers and acquisitions including the likes of Dunlop India and CESC in 1980, CEAT Tyres in 1982, RPG Life Sciences (then Searle India) and KEC International in 1985, the Gramophone Co. of India (now Saregama) in 1986, Spencers and Harrisons Malayalam in 1988, Bayer India, Firstsource Solutions Limited in 2012 and many more, R. P. Goenka came to be known as the 'takeover king' in his heyday. He was accused of asset-stripping of existing enterprises, especially the Kamani Engineering Corporation, and siphoning off the money into the RPG group, leaving the acquired firms bereft of cash and heavily in debt.

Goenka died on 14 April 2013 in Kolkata. He has two sons, elder Harsh Vardhan and younger Sanjiv.