ANURADHA NARASIMHAN - Category Director - Health & Wellness
ASHOK KUMAR GUPTA - General Manager - Accounts & Planning
B. PRASHANTH - Head of R&D
Dr. K.N. SHASHIKANTH - Head - Corporate Quality
JITENDRA MAHAJAN - Head - Procurement
KAILASH H. KAKANI - General Manager - Manufacturing Operations
N. VENKATARAMAN - General Manager - Commercial
P. GOVINDAN - Company Secretary & Head of Legal
R. ANAND - Business Operations Director
R K AGARWAL - General Manager - Projects
SHALINI DEGAN - Category Director - Delight & Lifestyle
SHRIDHAR PANSHIKAR - National Sales Director
SUJIT GUHA - General Manager - Replenishment
VALIVETI V PADMANABHAM - Head - Corporate IT
VINITA BALI
Vinita Bali was appointed Managing Director on 31st May 2006. Vinita joined as Chief Executive Officer of the Company in January 2005. She received her Bachelor's Degree in Economics from LSR at the University of Delhi and her MBA at the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies at Bombay University. She pursued postgraduate studies in Business and Economics at Michigan State University on a scholarship from The Rotary Foundation, and was selected to work as a Graduate Intern at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
She started her career with Voltas Ltd.-a Tata Group company focusing on consumer products, where she launched Rasna soft-drink concentrate. In 1980, Vinita joined Cadbury India, where she had a successful career in roles of increasing responsibility, not just in India, but also in the UK, Nigeria and South Africa. Vinita also served on the Boards of Cadbury Nigeria and Cadbury South Africa.
The Coca-Cola Company chose her as its worldwide Marketing Director in 1994 where she was responsible for the worldwide strategy for Coke, and was one of the key players in doubling its historical growth rate. In 1997 she took over as Vice President of Marketing for Latin America, and in 1999 relocated to Chile as President of the Andean Division with sales in excess of USD 1 Billion. In 2001, she was made a corporate officer of The Coca-Cola Company and appointed Vice President of Corporate Strategy reporting to the Chairman.
After an eventful nine-year association with Coke, Vinita joined her mentor at Coke, Sergio Zyman at the Zyman Group in July 2003 as a Managing Principal and Head of the Business Strategy practice in the company's Atlanta office. As a member of the company's Board of Managers, Vinita shared responsibility for developing and managing Zyman Group's consulting business.
NEERAJ CHANDRA
Neeraj Chandra, has been designated as Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, with effect from 1st October 2008. He will have the Research & Development Function reporting to him, in addition to Sales & Marketing.
Neeraj Chandra joined Britannia in July 2005 as Vice President - Marketing, Sales and Innovation, responsible for orchestrating the revenue side of the business.
He graduated as an Electrical Engineer from IIT Kanpur followed by an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, he first joined Hindustan Lever and handled diverse assignments in Sales and Marketing, in a career spanning two decades and progressing rapidly from Management Trainee to Vice President.
Neeraj has rich and varied experience in Sales and Marketing from India and around the world. In Hindustan Lever he worked on building several power brands like Pond's, Fair and Lovely, Lux, Lifebuoy and Clinic. His regional assignments have provided valuable exposure to the Middle East and the competitive markets of China and the Far East.
RAJU THOMAS
Raju Thomas has taken over as the Chief Financial Officer, with effect from 3rd November 2008. Raju also looks after the Purchase function.
Raju comes with extensive experience in Hindustan Unilever. During his 27 years with the Company he handled several financial and commercial roles in the Home and Personal Care, Foods and Animal Feeds businesses. In addition he handled several corporate roles like statutory and management accounting, factory and branch accounting and internal audit.
He has had cross functional exposure in H.R., specifically in the remuneration area. He has also worked in the Unilever Head Office in UK for 3 years. His last assignment was as V. P. Finance in Hindustan Unilever.
VINAY SINGH KUSHWAHA
Vinay Singh Kushwaha joined Britannia in August, 2010 and was appointed Vice President - Supply Chain effective 1st August.
In his current role, Vinay is responsible for manufacturing, projects and technology, planning & replenishment. Since 1st Feb, 2011 he has assumed the additional responsibility of Quality Assurance.
He completed a B. Tech degree in mechanical engineering from IIT Delhi and joined Hindustan Lever in 1986 as a management trainee. In his career of 22 years with Hindustan Lever, he did a variety of technical and supply chain roles and in different businesses and rose rapidly to the position of a Vice President.. He worked in the North African business of Unilever as a Supply Chain Director for 3 years and as a Regional Vice president for Skin care category for Asia. He was part of the Unilever's Singapore based Supply Chain Leadership team for Asia.
Vinay joins us from Dabur India where he was Executive Director-Operations responsible for India and global operations of the Company.
SREEKANTH A
Sreekanth K. Arimanithaya joined us on 1st February 2011 as Vice President & Chief of Human Resources. He is also in charge of Information Technology.
Sreekanth is a passionate HR professional, with a diversity of experience across industries, geographies and roles, having worked with TVS Motors, Phillips, General Electric and Toyota. He joined us from CA Technologies (formerly Computer Associates) where he last served as Senior Vice-President - Global HR Operations & HR Business Partner based in the USA.
Sreekanth is qualified in TQM and Six Sigma and is passionate about the comprehensive role that HR can and must play in delivering business results.
VINOD MENON
Vinod Menon has been appointed as Vice President-Office of Strategy Deployment & New Business Development with effect from 18th April 2012.
Vinod started his career with Hotel Leela Venture in the Treasury function, before joining their auditors Picardo and Associates as a Partner.
He joined Britannia in 1993 and over the last 19 years has handled several roles in Finance, Commercial and Accounts, both in the Corporate Office and region. He was also the Process Owner of the Finance function in Company-wide SAP implementation task and has led work in both Internal Audit, and in Mergers and Acquisitions.
In his last stint as Head-Dairy Business, Vinod has helped create a solid foundation and a sound platform for profitable growth of the Business
