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Jakarta, Indonesia

Greater Jakarta Area, Indonesia

Managing/President Director having full P&L and Operational responsibility for the Godrej Indonesia/Asean cluster with solid line control of all functions ranging from Marketing & Sales to Manufacturing and also all support functions including Finance, HR and R&D

London, United Kingdom

Based in the greater London area and leading RB's Analgesics and Cold & Flu category with full global responsibility for all aspects of RB's power brand Nurofen's growth strategy, branding, Innovation, investments, gross margin improvement as well as global expansion.Also providing thought leadership for RB's ambitions in Consumer Healthcare and innovating at the cutting edge of digital health technologies with the consumer/patient at the heart.

Gurgaon, India

Managing Director for RB India covering the full Hygiene, Home & Health portfolio with full P&L responsibility. Direct reports included business function heads for Marketing, Sales, H.R, Finance, Regulatory and supply services.Championed a transformational distribution reach and supply chain efficiency program to radically improve On-Shelf-Availability(OSA), distribution reach & visibility in grocery & pharmacy/Chemist outlets to deliver high double digit sales & profit growth despite currency headwinds.

Kuala Lumpur

Regional Vice President & General Manager for Asia comprising Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Hong Kong & Taiwan. Fully responsible for all aspects of the regional P&L with direct reports consisting of 7 country GMs and business function heads in Marketing, Finance, H.R and Procurement.GSK Consumer Healthcare Asia business comprised of Wellness ( OTC medicine like Panadol, Antacid Eno & Scotts Vitamins/Minerals), Oral Care including Sensodyne toothpaste & Polident denture adhesives/cleansers and Nutritional drinks Horlicks & Ribena.Sensodyne & Panadol achieved record shares in Asia during this period driven by strong execution of innovation, distribution expansion & cutting edge healthcare professional endorsement initiatives and activation programs.Another key achievements was to carry the strong growth momentum generated by the previous South Asia role into the wider Asia region to deliver the highest ever growth in Asia whilst also integrating the South & North Asia regions and transforming into a matrix organisation.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Regional General Manager with direct responsibility for Malaysia and line manager for country GMs in Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines & Singapore.Building on the growth momentum and execution principles refined in previous general manager stints in Malaysia & Sri Lanka the big achievements in this role was to drive explosive growth in both the oral care and OTC categories by developing and executing a strong innovation pipeline and championing Project each - an area wide sales & market expansion program.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

As general manager for GSK Consumer Healthcare Malaysia & Singapore the biggest achievement was to radically transform the business from one that had delivered a 3 year CAGR of 1% to delivering a CAGR of over 20% with margin accretive operating profit growth.These results were delivered by fundamentally altering the marketing program for Horlicks, Ribena & Panadol and also the business's restructuring terms of trade and its go to market model.

Colombo, Sri Lanka

As a first time general manager for GSK Consumer Healthcare Sri Lanka, the key challenge faced was to turnaround a business in decline in a country which had not yet emerged from a 2 decade long political crisis - a situation further aggravated by the Tsunami in 2004.Key achievements in this stint was to fundamentally turn around and transform the top line & bottom line the business by strengthening the talent bench, revitalising the marketing programs for Analgesics & Nutritional drinks as well as fundamentally reengineering the sales go to market model

London, United Kingdom

Global brand director for the nutritional drink Ribena responsible for Innovation & global marketing strategy. Subsequently also worked on Aquafresh toothpaste & whitening solutions

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Responsible for Marketing strategy and Insights for GSK Consumer Healthcare for all of Asia ( Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia , Vietnam, Hong Kong, Korea & Taiwan).Key achievement in this role was to dive marketing strategy for this region and driving a focus on OTC Innovation as well as on therapeutic oral care.Also had hands on experience with business integration as leader of the Asia integration of the Block Drug business( Sensodyne, Polident & Parodontax)

New Delhi Area, India

Marketing Director For Horlicks - GSK Consumer Healthcare India's flagship brand which then accounted for 80% of company revenue

Mba, Major In Marketing

Advanced Management Program, Management/Strategy

Master Of Arts, Economics