Sanjay Khosla
Sanjay Khosla is a Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Sanjay is a trained and certified executive coach. He is also an advisor to a number of companies across industries. Sanjay is currently a director at Zoetis, Inc. and is on various private boards.
Sanjay is the co-author of Fewer Bigger Bolder: From Mindless Expansion to Focused Growth, which was named the Best Business Book by The Globe and Mail and one of the 10 Mind-Altering Business Books by The Huffington Post.
Earlier, Sanjay was a Senior Advisor for the Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
Sanjay spent over 30 years transforming businesses. As President of Kraft International (later Mondelez International), he grew the business from $5 billion USD to $16 billion USD in 6 years while improving profitability by 50%. Sanjay was responsible for business operations in over 60 countries with 65,000 employees.
Sanjay was involved in the acquisitions of Cadbury (for $19 billion USD) and Danone Biscuits (for $7 billion USD) which he successfully helped integrate with Kraft Foods.
Prior to Kraft, Sanjay turned around the $3 Billion USD consumer business of Fonterra, a global dairy company based in New Zealand.
Sanjay also spent over 27 years at Unilever, based in the UK, Europe and India. Sanjay implemented a bold programme (Paint the World Yellow with Lipton) as Chairman of the Global Category Board for Unilever Beverages and helped transform the Lipton Tea business worldwide. Sanjay created the Wheel detergents business in India, which became one of Unilever’s largest brands in India.
Previously, Sanjay was on the board of Best Buy Inc., USA, Del Monte Foods Inc., USA, Iconix Brand Group Inc., USA, the Lipton/Pepsi global joint venture, and NIIT Ltd. Sanjay was Co-Chair of the Nestle/Fonterra joint venture (Dairy Partners Americas).
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Advanced Management Program, 1998, Harvard University
Bachelor of Technology (Honors), 1973, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology -
President, Kraft Foods, 2007-2013
Managing Director, Fronterra Brands, 2004-2006
Senior VP, Chairman, Executive Director, Category Head, Marketing Controller, Unilever, 1977-2004 -
Lifetime Achievement Award, St. Xavier's School
Distinguished Alumni, Indian Institute of Technology, Dehli, India
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