The decision highlights the Board’s continued confidence in Sitapati’s leadership as the company advances its long-term growth and transformation strategy across emerging markets and key consumer categories. Since taking over as MD and CEO in 2021, Sudhir has led multiple strategic initiatives focused on growth acceleration, operational agility, portfolio strengthening, and market expansion.
GCPL also announced that Nadir Godrej will step down from the Board as Non-Executive Non-Independent Director, effective August 7, 2026.
Sudhir Sitapati has been leading GCPL since October 2021, driving the company’s expansion across health, beauty, home care, and personal care categories in emerging markets.
Before joining GCPL, Sudhir spent more than 22 years with Unilever, building an extensive international leadership career across India, South Asia, Africa, and the United Kingdom. During his tenure, he held several senior business and category leadership positions across foods, refreshments, home care, and fabric cleaning businesses.
Most recently at Unilever, he served as Executive Director and Vice President – Foods & Refreshment, where he led large-scale category growth and consumer business strategies across multiple markets. Earlier, he held leadership roles including Executive Director and Vice President – Refreshments, Regional Category Vice President – Refreshments for South Asia and Africa, and General Manager – Skin Cleansing, South Asia.
His earlier responsibilities also included leading fabric cleaning and laundry portfolios as Regional Brand Director – Fabric Cleaning, South Asia, and Senior Brand Manager – Persil in the United Kingdom. Across these positions, Sudhir developed strong expertise in brand building, category transformation, consumer strategy, and global FMCG market expansion.
He began his professional journey at Unilever as a Business Leadership Trainee and steadily rose through leadership ranks over more than 2 decades.
Sudhir Sitapati is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, where he completed his management education between 1997 and 1999.
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