GAUTAM BANERJEE - General Manager - Materials
ASHOK KUMAR GUPTA - General Manager - Accounts & Planning
R K AGRAWAL - Supply Chain Director for New Business Development
R S SUBRAMANIAM - General Manager - Manufacturing, Engineering and Projects
ANURADHA NARASIMHAN - Category Director - Health & Wellness
SHALINI DEGAN - Category Director - Delight & Lifestyle
T S VENKETRAM - General Manager - Manufacturing Development
BALAJI REDDIPALLI - Head Replenishment
R. ANAND - Business Operations Director
JEHANGIR TANKARIWALA - General Manager - Human Resources
VINOD MENON - Head of BNZF
SHRIDHAR PANSHIKAR - National Sales Manager
PURNENDU ROY - Head of R&D
P. GOVINDAN - Company Secretary & Head of Legal
Dr. K.N. SHASHIKANTH - Corporate Quality Assurance Manager
VALIVETI V PADMANABHAM - Corporate Manager - Information Systems
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.
RAJESH K. LAL
Rajesh Kumar Lal has been designated as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer with effect from 1st October 2008. In his new role, Rajesh Lal will lead company's technology strategy and plans for all businesses Bakery, dairy and any other new business initiatives, both domestically and internationally.
Rajesh Lal joined Britannia as Vice President and Head of Operations in January 2005 and was responsible for enhancing supply chain efficiencies by focusing on purchase, procurement, manufacturing and logistics.
Rajesh graduated as a chemical engineer from IIT Delhi and also holds a degree of Master of Applied Science (Chemical Engineering) from University of Ottawa.
Rajesh spent most of his career at Hindustan Lever in the technical function of setting up and running manufacturing units, managing the supply chain, and working with contract packers in India and Asia.
P. SHYAM SUNDER
Shyam has been with the Company for over 14 years during which time he has successfully handled a variety of assignments. He joined the company in 1991 to establish the Group Internal Audit function and moved to head the Mumbai branch between 1996 and 1999 during which period the branch recorded impressive growth. In 1999, he returned to the Executive Office to take charge of the Information Systems and subsequently the Logistics functions. Shyam has successfully revamped Britannia's IT landscape and has led several cross-functional project teams including SAP implementation and Project Dhruv which have delivered significant benefits in terms of organisational efficiencies and cost savings.
As Vice President and Head of Quality he is responsible for the quality assurance of the entire range of products via appropriate quality management and audit processes across the supply chain. He works closely with Procurement, Operations, Sales & Marketing, Product Development and Human Resources. In addition, Shyam is also responsible for continually reviewing and improving operating processes across functions to make systems more efficient, responsive and robust.
NEERAJ CHANDRA
Neeraj Chandra, has been designated as Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, with effect from 1st October 2008. He will have the Planning & Replenishment 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 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.
ATUL SINHA
Atul Sinha joined Britannia on 2nd July 2007 as Vice President - New Business Development. In this role he will lead Britannia initiatives in identifying and developing new product-market segments outside the current lines of business, as Britannia progresses towards becoming the fastest growing and best food brand in the country.
His last assignment was that of Vice President - Marketing and Sales with Agro Tech Foods Limited where he was associated with the successful launch of Sundrop Heart. He also put in place a sales strategy to exploit the growing Modern Trade. Prior to that, as Associate Director for Oral Care marketing with Colgate Palmolive Ltd, he revived the growth of Colgate with the relaunch of Colgate Dental Cream and other new products. He was also Head of Sales with Reckitt Benckiser.
A graduate of Shri Ram College of Commerce with an MBA from XLRI, Atul started his career as a Management Trainee in Voltas.
ALAGU BALARAMAN
Alagu Balaraman was designated as Vice President - Human Resources and Process Architect with effect from February 2008. Alagu joined Britannia in July 2007 as Vice President and Process Architect.
One of the critical requirements of capability enhancement is a stronger and more robust focus on process design and improvement. Alagu will work with people across the Company - all functions and geographies, to help us deliver better results in areas that matter, through continuous process improvements.
Alagu's expertise in this area was developed in a career spanning 20 years in various roles, with a diverse range of companies and industries - engineering, services and FMCG. As the founder and head of the IT Strategy practice in PwC India, he has had the opportunity to help leading companies redefine the way they work to deliver better performance. In doing this, Alagu has covered many functions - from sales & distribution, to marketing, to supply chain management, HR processes and financial management. This broad cross-functional perspective will be extremely useful to us as we build world class processes and systems to deliver improved performance.
Alagu is an alumunus of IIT-Madras and IIM-Calcutta and started his career in L&T where he learnt the nuts and bolts of project managament. His last assignment was as Executive Vice President of IT & Corporate Development with Godfrey Philips India Ltd.
