Thursday, August 8, 2013

Indians are playing a Top Roles in Top Multinational Companies

Shantanu Narayen is the current CEO of Adobe

Sounak Mitra from ‘Business Standard’ reports that Nitin Paranjpe,Sameer Suneja and Atul Singh are some of the well known leaders of multinational consumer products in India. These leaders have represented India globally for their leadership qualities and guidence.

Nitin Paranjpe  global head of Unilever

Nitin Paranjpe who was previously the MD and CEO HUL was recently appointed as the global head of Unilever Plc's home care business.

Sameer Suneja took the responsibility of Perfetti Van Melle's India operations, an Italian sugar confectionery maker recently. He is all set to become the global CEO, infact he will be the third Indian to be elevated from a global consumer company, after Indra Nooyi from PepsiCo and Rakesh Kapoor from Reckitt Benckiser.

Even world’s most successful company Coca-Cola elevated Atul Singh as the deputy president of Coca-Cola's Pacific Group. After taking over the responsibility he has an important role to perform in company’s key business units in China and India.

Ajay Banga has replaced Vikram Pandit as the CEO of Citigroup. In 2012, Anshu Jain became the co-CEO of Deutsche Bank.

However it has been observed that Indians are not on the back seat when it comes to dominating technology. For instance, Hyderabad-born Shantanu Narayen is the current CEO of Adobe and Sanjay Jha had served as the chairman and CEO of Motorola Mobility, until google completed Motorola Mobility acquisition last year.