Indian executives in global corporations

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Indian execs don global hats, steer ops from home turf

Local Talent Gains As MNCs Bank On Growth In Desi Market

Samidha Sharma & Shubham Mukherjee TNN

The Times of India 2013/07/06

Mumbai: The rise of executives of Indian origin in the global corporate and management world is by now well documented. However, as a corollary to this, now a growing number of top Indian managers are performing global roles based out of India. Though not a new trend, it was a rare occurrence till a few years ago.

[In 2013] Coca-Cola’s India and south west Asia head Atul Singh was elevated as deputy president of the cola major’s Pacific group comprising 10 countries, including China. However, Singh opted to stay put in Gurgaon just like an increasing number of Indian executives who choose to play global roles out of Indian cities.

Yashwant Mahadik, HR head for India and the subcontinent at Philips, is another recent addition to the growing club of CEOs based in India with a global role. Earlier this year, Mahadik was anointed global HR head for the Dutch conglomerate but remains stationed at Gurgaon, the company’s local headquarters. Singh and Mahadik are joined by the likes of Salil Parekh, CEO, application services and global financial services, Capgemini, who sits in Mumbai with responsibilities of a $5-billion business; Arvind Uppal, head of Asia-Pacific at Whirlpool, who operates out of Gurgaon; and Bangalore-based Subhankar Roy Chowdhury, talent & organizational development leader (Asia-Pacific & Latin America) at Lenova.

There are others who are on global boards, including Ashish Singh, chairman, Bain & Co India, and Noshir Kala, one of the longest serving members on McKinsey’s global partner election committee. Similarly, Janmejaya Sinha, the Asia-Pacific chief, holds one of the top four critical jobs at BCG globally while Saurine Doshi has been on the global board of AT Kearney for a while now. Another Indian partner, Vikas Kaushal, has joined him on the AT Kearney board.

Among the big four, Rajeev Memani has been member of the global practice group of Ernst and Young while Deepak Kapoor is on PWC’s global strategy body. They all have a base in India. The list is long.