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anka, Bangladesh and Nepal. He has been the
Chairman and CEO of Nestlé Philippines and
Managing Director of Nestlé Singapore Pte. Ltd.
Mr. Narayanan holds a master’s degree in
Economics from the Delhi School of Economics
and has a diploma from the IMD Program for
Executive Development. He has been honoured
at the orbes India Leadership Awards (2017) as
the Best CEO in the Multinational category. He
was recognized among the ‘Most Valuable CEOs’
in 2019 by
Business World
and also awarded
‘Best CEO – MCG’ for 2019 by
Business Today
.
nder his leadership, in 2019, Nestlé India won
the ‘Best Governed Company Award for 2018’
by Asian Centre for Corporate Governance and
Sustainability.
headed the Government
Committee to review recruitment
procedures for the higher civil
services till August 2016. He
regularly speaks on public policy issues at a
number of institutions. He has held some of
the key positions in the government including
Director, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy
of Administration, Mussoorie; Secretary, National
Commission for Minorities, Government of
India; Chairman, National Pharmaceutical
Pricing Authority (Ministry of Chemicals and
Petrochemicals); Secretary, Ministry of Tribal
Affairs, Government of India; Secretary, Ministry
of Social Justice & Empowerment, Government of
India; and finally retired as Education Secretary,
Government of India. Post retirement, he spent
time in the Planning Commission as a Senior
Consultant and later served as the Director of
the Indian Institute of Public Administration.
He currently lectures on Public Policy Drivers in
various institutions and is working on a book.
i
s
President Emeritus of the ield
Museum in Chicago since 2020.
Dr. Lariviere’s career in academia
and business is grounded in
expertise on India. His work with the information
technology industry (beginning in 1992)
comprised devising country-entry strategies
h
olds both a
bachelor of arts and a Juris Doctor
degree from the niversity of
Nebraska. She was most recently
interim CEO at iLOG. She has
been the President of Palm Computing and
Senior Vice President at 3Com Corporation,
and President and CEO at Verione. She has
been President and General Manager of the
Americas for Apple Computers. Prior to that, she
was the Vice President and General Manager of
Apple Asia, where she was responsible for sales,
marketing and market development in the region.
Ms. Abrams spent eight years with nisys in
several senior-level positions, including a five-
year stint in Asia Pacific, managing the delivery of
business solutions focussed on banking, airlines,
government and networking. e first twelve
years of her career were in various management
positions at Wells argo Bank.
Ms. Abrams has served several S public
company boards including iLOG, BEA Systems
(until it was acquired by Oracle) and OpenWave
Systems. She currently serves on the boards
of Lattice Semiconductor, Sierra Wireless and
actSet Research.
h
as over thirty-five years of rich
and exhaustive experience in the
MCG industry and has held senior
management and top leadership
roles in leading global companies. He has been on
the Board of Directors of Nestlé India Ltd. since
2015. Mr. Narayanan joined Nestlé in 1999 as
Executive Vice President for Sales in India, where
he spearheaded major structural and strategic
changes in Sales and Customer Management and
set up the chilled dairy business. Since then, he
has worked with Nestlé Indochina as Executive
Director for Sales, Marketing and ood Services,
and Nestlé India as Head of Sales for India, Sri
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