GCPL hires 2 top former HUL executives
GCPL said the hiring of Rajesh Sethuraman and Vijay Kannan is part of its journey to digital transformation
PremiumNEW DELHI : Godrej Consumer Products Ltd (GCPL) on Thursday named former Hindustan Unilever Ltd executives Rajesh Sethuraman and Vijay Kannan to its global leadership team. While Sethuraman will join as chief executive officer for the Asean region, Kannan will head business transformation and digital businesses.
The appointments will be effective July and are part of a larger plan for a digitally-led business transformation, GCPL said in a statement.
“We have ambitious aspirations for GCPL, inspired by our purpose of bringing the goodness of health and beauty to consumers in emerging markets. Our strategy is to grow category development driven by relevance, access and marketing investments, and funded by a digitally enabled simplification of our company. We are on a journey to reduce inventory and wasted costs to create significant fuel for this growth and digital transformation," Sudhir Sitapati, managing director and chief executive officer of GCPL said.
Sitapati, a former HUL executive himself, has joined as MD and CEO of GCPL in October 2021.
Sethuraman has spent over two decades at Hindustan Unilever as well as parent Unilever, leading teams across categories and divisions in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
In his previous role as vice president of digital process transformation, he led the execution of Unilever’s largest digital transformation programme across Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
Kannan, on the other hand, was HUL’s IT head, and prior to that, worked at Asian Paints. Kannan holds an MBA from IIM Lucknow and a Bachelor of Engineering from College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai.
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