Sanjiv Mehta

Chairman & Managing Director

Sanjiv Mehta is the Chairman and Managing Director of HUL since 30th June, 2018. He has been leading Unilever’s business in India and South Asia since October 2013 as CEO and Managing Director, HUL and Executive Vice President, Unilever, South Asia. Mr. Mehta was appointed as President, Unilever, South Asia and member of the Unilever Leadership Executive, effective May 2019.

Mr. Mehta has been with Unilever for 26 years and during the last 17 years has led businesses in different parts of the world. He has been the Chairman and Managing Director of Unilever Bangladesh Limited (2002-06), Chairman and CEO of Unilever Philippines Inc. (2007-08) and Chairman of Unilever - North Africa & Middle East (2008 – September 2013).

Mr. Mehta chairs the FMCG Committee of FICCI as well as the national committee on MNCs of CII. Sanjiv also chairs Xynteo's 'India 2022', a purpose-driven business coalition of top Indian and MNC companies formed with an intention to solve some of the intractable environmental and social issues, and is working to create a new model of growth. He co-chairs the Advisory Network to the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy. Mr. Mehta is a member of the India Advisory Board of Harvard Business School and is a Director on the Board of The Indian School of Business. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Breach Candy Hospital Trust, Mumbai.

Mr. Mehta is a Chartered Accountant from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He has also completed the Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School.

Srinivas Phatak

Executive Director, Finance & IT and Chief
Financial Officer

Srinivas has been with Unilever for 20 years and worked extensively in India and different parts of the world. His experiences cover all aspects of the finance function. He has been Vice President Category Finance for Deodorants and Oral Care (2012-2013), Vice President Supply Chain Finance Americas (2014-2016) and Head of Financial Shared Services for Unilever (2017).

Mr. Phatak is a Chartered Accountant (ICAI – 1996) and Cost & Works Accountant (ICWAI – 1996).

Pradeep Banerjee

Executive Director, Supply Chain

Pradeep has held a series of assignments in Supply Chain, Research & Development and Categories at Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL). He became the Vice President - Technical (Home and Personal Care) in 2003 and later moved to UK in 2005 as Vice President, Global Supply Chain for Personal Care Category. He has also served as the Vice President for Global Procurement in Singapore.

He was appointed as Executive Director, Supply Chain of the Company in March 2010. Mr. Banerjee leads Unilever Nepal Limited as the Chairman. He is also a member of the HUL Risk Management Committee.

Mr. Banerjee holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Chemical) from IIT Delhi.

Dev Bajpai

Executive Director, Legal & Corporate Affairs and Company Secretary

Dev Bajpai (52) has been a member of the Management Committee of HUL since May 2010 and was inducted on the Board of Directors of HUL as a Whole Time Director with effect from January 2017.

Mr. Bajpai is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and has a law degree from the University of Delhi. He completed an Executive Program for Corporate Counsels at Harvard conducted by Harvard Law School.

He has 30 years of experience in diverse industries that include Automobiles, FMCG, Hospitality and Private Equity, in the areas of Legal, Governance, Tax and Corporate Affairs.

In the past, he has worked with Maruti Udyog Limited, Marico Limited, Indian Hotels Company Limited and ICICI Venture Funds Management Company Limited. He has been part of Committees of Apex Industry Organisations such as CII & FICCI. Dev has also represented the Industry before Parliamentary Committees.

B. P. Biddappa

Executive Director, Human Resources

Over the last 20+ years Biddappa has worked in a variety of roles starting off in a factory in Orai (UP), then working in supervisory development, Corporate Learning and R&D. He has held global positions for Unilever - with Unilever Maghreb (Casablanca), Unilever Bangladesh as HR Director and then in Unilever Asia, Singapore as Vice President, Human Resources for the Supply Chain in Asia, Africa and Russia.

Mr. Biddappa was appointed as the Executive Director-HR for HUL with effect from February 1, 2013. He also leads HR for Unilever South Asia as Vice President, HR for South Asia. Prior to joining HUL in 1992, Mr. Biddappa worked in consulting firms for a little over two years.

Mr. Biddappa has a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Delhi University and an MBA in HR from XLRI, Jamshedpur.

Priya Nair

Executive Director, Home Care

Priya brings with her a diverse and rich experience including Consumer Insights, Customer Development and Marketing. In her earlier roles, she has worked across various brands such as Dove, Axe, Rexona, Closeup and Pepsodent.

As VP Laundry she led the entire detergents portfolio of HUL. Under her leadership, the Laundry business has been able to win share on the core and lead market development of emerging segments like Fabric Conditioners & Liquids, and bring the business back to competitive growth. More recently, she has led the launch of HUL’s path breaking rural mobile marketing initiative ‘Kan Khajura Tesan’ which received three Gold Lion awards at the 2014 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.

Sandeep Kohli

Executive Director, Beauty & Personal Care

Sandeep joined HUL in 1993 and worked across the Home & Personal Care (HPC) and Foods businesses. In 2004, he moved to Philippines as the Head of Marketing, Foods. In 2007-08, he became the Global Brand Director, Savoury based in UK and moved on to lead Brand Development for Foods across China, South East Asia and Australasia.

He joined the South East Asia and Australasia Leadership Team as Vice President, Marketing Operations. In this role he successfully built programmes across marketing, customer development, media and CMI. In his most recent role, he was Vice President of Unilever in Myanmar, Cambodia & Laos, leading the Unilever entry into this strategically important geography.

Mr. Kohli completed his MMS from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute, Mumbai after graduating with an MSc (Hons) in Mathematics and a BE (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from BITS Pilani.

Sudhir Sitapati

Executive Director, Foods & Refreshment

Sudhir was appointed as Executive Director, Foods & Refreshment with effect from July 1, 2018. He joined the company in 1999 and has worked on various roles in Customer Development and Marketing, most recent being the Executive Director, Refreshment.

Before his appointment as the Executive Director, Refreshment. Mr. Sitapati was Regional Category Vice President, Refreshment (South Asia & Africa), Unilever. He brings a rich experience of working in diverse markets in Europe, South East Asia and Africa in addition to India.

In 2017 Sudhir was awarded the Young Alumni Achiever at his alma mater IIMA.

Srinandan Sundaram

Executive Director, Sales and Customer Development

Over the past 18 years, Srinandan has had stints spanning Customer Development (CD) and Marketing across a number of categories. Mr. Sundaram has held leadership roles in CD across General Trade and Modern Trade. Since 2009, He has led several categories in the Personal Care business including Oral Care, Deodorants, Hair Care and most recently Skin Care.