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 Mr. Simon Scarff
Non Executive Chairman
He is currently the Non Executive Chairman of GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Limited. Simon Scarff started his career at Horlicks Limited, UK (now part of GlaxoSmithKline plc). He was first in India in 1963 at Nabha, in Punjab, responsible for the marketing and sales of the company's products. He then returned to the UK to work within the UK Marketing department. In 1974, he was appointed Coordinator on the Consumer Brands business in Nigeria. In 1976, he was appointed Regional Group Manager, responsible for the Near and the Middle East, initially based in Cyprus and later in Dubai. He returned to India as the Managing Director on the 1st of June, 1978 and led the company till October 2002. In January 1999, Mr. Scarff was awarded the Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Her Majesty the Queen of England in the New Year's Honour List (1999) for services to British Industry.
In 1993, he was appointed as a Director of SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals India Limited (now GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals India Limited), and he continues in this post. He is also a Director in several other organizations and Chairman of charitable groups in India.
 Mr. Zubair Ahmed
Managing Director
Mr. Zubair Ahmed took over the responsibility for running the Consumer Healthcare business in the India Sub-continent region, as Managing Director, effective 1st January, 2007. Mr. Ahmed brings to this role a wealth of thirty years of experience in the FMCG sector. Prior to joining this Company, Mr. Ahmed was the Managing Director of Gillette India Limited where he was credited for turning the company's business onto a profitable growth path as well as spearheading Gillette's clear value leadership in its product categories in India.
Mr. Ahmed was associated with Gillette for over 14 years where his leadership competencies in the areas of strategic planning, strategic relationship building and result orientation led him to work on prestigious assignments in the company's operations in Middle East and India. Mr. Ahmed has also worked with leading companies like Voltas and Unilever in the past.
  Mr. Kunal Kashyap
Non Executive Director
Mr. Kunal Kashyap is a Chartered Accountant by profession and is currently the Chairman and Managing Director of Allegro Capital Advisors Pvt Ltd, a leading Investment Bank. Mr. Kunal Kashyap was also the founder and executive director of Celstream Technologies Pvt. Ltd, a leading software product engineering organisation. During the period 1994-2000, he was a global partner at Arthur Andersen responsible for developing the firms' practice in South India. Mr. Kunal Kashyap has also been responsible for managing the treasury and Business Development functions for Asia Pacific at Digital Equipment Corporation. Since March 28, 2001, he has been a Director of this company.
 Mr. P. Dwarakanath
Non Executive Director
Mr. P Dwarakanath retired as Director - Human Resource of the Company w.e.f. July 31, 2006. Mr. Dwarakanath has over 34 years of experience in Engineering, Chemical, Pharma and Consumer Goods industry in the core functional areas of Legal, Employee Relations, Management Development, Leadership Development and HR Management. He has been actively involved in various professional bodies including a successful stint as President of Delhi Management Association (2000/2001).
 Mr. Praveen Gupta
Director Operations
Mr. Praveen K Gupta joined this Company in 1975. Since then he has held positions of increasing responsibility in Finance, Procurement, Materials Management, and Supply Chain Management. He was previously Site Director of the Nabha facility and Operational Excellence Country Champion for GMS Consumer Healthcare, India. In these roles he has made significant contributions towards the evolution and performance of the Nabha site and has driven the highly successful Operational Excellence programme in India. Since January 24, 2006, Mr. Praveen K Gupta is holding the position of Director – Operations of the Company. In this role he has made significant success in building up a strategy aligned to business growth, strong performance and compliance culture and has made significant contribution to cost reduction initiatives.
 Mr. Ramakrishnan Subramanian
Director, Finance and IT
Mr. Subramanian joined GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Limited in 2006 as Deputy CFO and was promoted as Director - Finance & IT effective December, 2007. He brings to the Organization a rich 25 years of experience in the FMCG sector, spent across several positions in Finance & procurement functions, in varied foods categories in Hindustan Unilever Ltd.
Between 2000-2005, as the Head of the Foods & Beverages Division he was credited with conceptualizing and implementing several innovative and effective measures, to reduce cost and drive Profit growth, across categories.
The past year saw him carrying the momentum into GSK where his contributions to Strategic Cost Reduction projects have been Significant. He is a cost accountant by profession
 Mr. Subodh Bhargava
Non Executive Director
Mr. Subodh Bhargava holds a Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Roorkee. He started his career with Balmer Lawrie & Co., Kolkata before joining the Eicher group of companies in Delhi in 1975. On March 31, 2000, he retired as the Group Chairman and Chief Executive and is now the Chairman Emeritus, Eicher group. He is the past President of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the Association of Indian Automobile Manufacturers; and the Vice President of the Tractor Manufacturers Association. Over several years, he was a key spokesperson for Indian industry, contributing to and influencing government policy while simultaneously working with industry to evolve new responses to the changing environment. He was a member of the Insurance Tariff Advisory Committee, the Economic Development Board of the government of Rajasthan. He was also the chairman of the National Accreditation Board for Certifying Bodies (NABCB) under the aegis of the Quality Council of India (QCI). Mr. Bhargava has been closely associated with technical and management education in India. He was the Chairman of the Board of Apprenticeship Training and Member of the Board of Governors of the University of Roorkee. The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi; Indian Institute of Management, Indore and the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, Ahmedabad. He was also a Member of the senior panel of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) set up for a comprehensive evaluation of research in engineering and technology; and on the committee set up by the Ministry of Human Resource Department, Government of India for policy perspectives for management education in India.
He is a trustee on various government/ semi government and charitable organizations and is also on the Board of Governors of IIM Lucknow and other Institutions for Graduate Engineering and Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree programmes in Business Management. He has been conferred with the first IIT Roorkee Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2005 by Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.
 Mr. Naresh Dayal
Non Executive Director
Mr. Naresh Dayal, IAS, has worked with the Government of India for 37 years in various positions at the state and national levels. As Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Mr. Dayal has been responsible, among other things, for all policies and programs in Public Health, supervising National Health Authorities, assessing and devising the policies for the country’s manpower requirements in health. Mr. Dayal holds a Masters degree in Arts from University of Delhi and also in Professional Studies, Agriculture, from University of Cornell, USA.
 Mr. Mukesh H Butani
Non Executive Director
Mr. Mukesh H Butani is a Chartered Accountant and is the co-founder and Partner at BMR Advisors, a leading professional service firm with competencies in the area of Tax, Mergers & Acquisitions and Risk and Business advisory services. Mr. Butani has over 24 years experience in advising several fortune 500 multinationals on a range of cross border tax structuring, transfer pricing, mergers & acquisitions, inbound investment structuring and tax controversy matters. Mr. Butani’s expertise lies in the area of transfer pricing and has authored treaties on transfer pricing for Lexis Nexis Butterworths, Wolter Kluwers & International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation. He has been a member of Indian government task forces on tax matters and participates in committees on tax policy changes. He is currently a member of OECD’s business restructuring advisory group and ICC, taxation commission. He is a member of UN Tax experts sub-committee on dispute resolution and is on the editorial boards of Tax Views Asia and International taxation by Taxmann India.
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