Vivek Gambhir

Vivek Gambhir

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Vivek Gambhir Profile

  • Name:
  • Vivek Gambhir
  • Education:
  • MBA, BSH

Vivek Gambhir Biography

Vivek Gambhir born in Mumbai in the year 1968 is a business management degree holder from Harvard Business School in 1997. Vivek has BS in Computer Science and BA (Economics) from Lafayette College, USA. Vivek quit his consulting job as partner in Bain India in 2009 and joined Godrej group as chief strategy officer. Vivek is married to Roopika, a photographer. They have three children and despite his too busy schedule, he finds enough time for his family and travels to places that he finds an amazing hobby.

It is common belief in the company circles that Nisa Godrej was the main reason in his appointment as head of strategy, a post that did not exist in the company but he is CEO and managing director of Godrej Consumer Products which is the largest and most profitable company of Godrej group. 

As partner at Bain Company and founding member of Bain group's Indian operations Vivek Gambhir worked in Boston, Singapore and New Delhi before leading the firm's consumer practice in India. Incidentally Bain & Company is a global management consulting firm with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts. The company provides advisory services to businesses, and NGOs. It would be worth mentioning here that Godrej group was one of the clients of Bain Company.

Vivek Gambhir now chief executive officer of Godrej Consumer Group was in charge of Project Neo, with Nisa Godrej, which was instrumental in the integration of Godrej Sara Lee with Godrej Consumer Products Ltd. He is also credited for the eight international acquisitions that Godrej has made in the last three years. Vivek Gambhir has also helped complete the transaction in which Temasek invested close to Rs 700 crore in GCPL. Vivek has proved himself a great leader who has been doing great job in various field to attract, develop and retain top talent throughout his career for his company.

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Updated: October 18, 2015

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