Who Is Rohit Jawa, HUL's Next CEO?

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Rohit Jawa will take over as the managing director and chief executive officer of Hindustan Unilever Ltd., marking the ascension of another marketer to the highest echelons of corporate leadership...

Jawa, who will succeed Sanjiv Mehta, has been appointed for five consecutive years from June 27, the company said in an exchange filing on Thursday..

Some of his key responsibilities would include propping up the GSK portfolio to be a major growth driver for HUL, scaling up recent acquisitions in direct-to-consumer space and remaining agile to do more bolt-on acquisitions in D2C given it is a buyers' market, according to Abneesh Roy, executive director, Nuvama Institutional Equities..

As executive vice president for north Asia and chairman for Unilever China,Jawa led a "significant transformation" of the market into a "competitive, profitable, and consistent business, now Unilevers 3rd biggest globally", the company said in a statement..

Saugata Gupta, managing director and chief executive at Marico Ltd.; Prabha Narasimhan, MD at Colgate-Palmolive India Ltd.; and Suresh Narayanan, chairperson and MD at Nestl India Ltd. are some of the C-level business leaders at FMCG companies who have held sales-oriented roles or transitioned from marketing chiefs to CEO...

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