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#2 Raghava Rao

DIRECTOR FINANCE, AMAZON INDIA

EARLIER ROLE: General Manager, Corporate Finance (Head Treasury and M&A), Hindustan Unilever Ltd

Joined Amazon in March 2014

SALARY: Approx. 2 crore

Moving from Hindustan Unilever to head Amazon India's finance section, Raghava Rao looks keen enough to steer Amazon towards profits and more profits.

 Raghava Rao started his career in 1994 as a management trainee at HUL. Rao looked delighted on joining Amazon and said, “In HUL, I was part of a $5 billion organization; here we are racing from startup to mega scale in a matter of years. While globally, we (Amazon) have very mature processes, in India we are a very young organization,”

 Raghava Rao is an IIT-Bombay and IIM-Calcutta alumnus and is busy implementing the best practices of the FMCG industry, like processes for handling scale, forecasting and measuring returns on investment at Amazon.

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