Shantanu Khosla

Mr. Shantanu Maharaj Khosla has over four decades of experience in the FMCG sector. He began his professional career in 1983 with P&G as a Management Trainee in marketing and worked with P&G for 32 years till 2015 during which he also worked in P&G’s subsidiaries in England, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore in various roles and businesses.

Mr. Shantanu led the integration of the Gillette business and significantly expanded P&G’s footprint in India. He served on the Board of the Advertising Standards Council of India for a decade including as its Chairman and also on the FICCI FMCG Committee. In 2015, Mr. Shantanu left P&G to join the newly created Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals Limited as its first Managing Director.

Mr. Shantanu currently serves on the Boards of Leadership Boulevard Private Limited, Modenik Lifestyle Private Limited, JSW Dulux Limited (formerly AkzoNobel India Limited), Atul Limited, Indus Tree Crafts Foundation and also serves as an Operating Partner for the private equity firm ‘Advent’.

Mr. Shantanu is an engineering graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta.

He has also received Distinguished Alumnus Awards from IIT Bombay and IIM Calcutta in 2013 and 2020, respectively.