These India-Born Executives Playing Big In Global MNCs

Ajay Banga
Mastercard Inc

Pune-born Ajaypal Singh Banga is the current president and CEO of MasterCard. Before joining MasterCard, Banga worked in simple jobs spanning sales, marketing, and general management. From 1996, he joined Citigroup as one of the top senior officials’ management in the United States and Europe, Middle East and Africa regions.

Before becoming Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Citi's international global consumer group, Banga was also responsible for branding and marketing work across the entire company.

Nitin Paranpje
Unilever

In 2008, Nitin Paranpje became the managing director and chief executive officer at Hindustan Unilever.  Paranjape joined HUL as a management trainee 21 years ago. Prior to becoming the CEO, he was serving as the executive director, home and personal care. Climbing up the ranks quickly, Paranjape handled various departments with different responsibilities. In 2000, he was entrusted with a review of the organisation structure at Unilever, London before taking over as category head in India for some of the company products in 2002.

(With IANS Inputs)

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