Accountable for enterprise direction, executive-team effectiveness and the operating choices that connect growth with durable performance. Working with the board to make strategic priorities, investment decisions and succession visible.
2016 — 202002
Business Unit President
Fairhaven Holdings
Scope & contribution
Led a business unit through a change in market position, aligning commercial priorities, operating capacity and leadership capability. Built experience translating enterprise ambition into decisions close to customers.
2011 — 201603
Managing Director, Asia Pacific
Harrow & Vale Industries
Scope & contribution
Built the regional business from a sales office into a full enterprise with its own manufacturing, brand and leadership bench. Opened four markets and led the first regional acquisition.
2006 — 201104
Director, Corporate Strategy
Meridian Consolidated
Scope & contribution
Shaped the portfolio review that exited two declining categories and funded the move into services. Learned how a board weighs reversible and irreversible decisions.
Enterprise revenue led
₹18,400 Cr
Across 22 markets
Value created
3.1×
Market capitalisation over six years
Colleagues
41,000
In manufacturing, services and retail
Acquisitions integrated
7
On time and within the thesis
At the board table
Northbridge Infrastructure Trust
Independent Director
Strategy · Nomination & Remuneration (Chair)
The Lakeshore Foundation
Trustee
Investment Committee
Calder Logistics
Non-Executive Director
Audit · Risk
My task is to give the enterprise a direction it can act on. I make the choices about customers, capital and capabilities explicit, then give business leaders the authority and accountability to deliver. I want difficult information to reach the leadership team while there is still time to respond.
The leadership record
Trusted with consequential decisions.
Recognition
Chief Executive of the Year — IndustrialThe Boardroom Review Awards · 2024
Top 50 Transformational LeadersCapital & Governance Quarterly · 2022
In conversation
“The CEO who stopped three businesses to build one”The Boardroom Review · 2025
“Succession as strategy: lessons from an industrial turnaround”Capital & Governance Quarterly · 2024
“Episode 112 — Choosing what not to do”The Leadership Ledger podcast · 2023
Formation
MBA, Strategy & FinanceWestbrook School of Management · 2004
Advanced Management ProgrammeHartfield Business School · 2015
B.Tech, Mechanical EngineeringNational Institute of Technology · 1998
Rare clarity about what the enterprise will and will not do — and the patience to make those choices stick.
Helena MarshChair, Northbridge Infrastructure TrustThe full record ↗
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