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Agarwal" loading="lazy" width="220" height="260" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="pt-5 sm:pt-0 dark:grayscale sm:border-r-8 mx-auto sm:mx-0 border-maroon dark:border-white" style="color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 220 260'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAAECAIAAADETxJQAAAACXBIWXMAAAPoAAAD6AG1e1JrAAAAM0lEQVR4nAEoANf/APDt67aUfP///wDVzsqvgWH5+fgACgQAKiooVU5KAB4UByETBR0SCcpyEJWqkYFtAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC'/%3E%3C/svg%3E")" srcSet="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_h_k_agarwal_f5cbd02d64.webp&w=256&q=100 1x, /_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_h_k_agarwal_f5cbd02d64.webp&w=640&q=100 2x" src="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_h_k_agarwal_f5cbd02d64.webp&w=640&q=100"/><div class="px-5 py-5"><div class="text-lg text-center sm:text-left text-maroon dark:text-white leading-tight mb-2">Mr. H. K. Agarwal</div><div class="text-base text-center sm:text-left text-grey dark:text-white/70 font-[400] leading-tight mb-2">Managing Director, Grasim Industries Ltd; Business Director, Pulp and Fibre Business, Aditya Birla Group</div></div></div><div class="flex justify-center sm:justify-start px-5 mb-5"><div class="inline-flex gap-2 cursor-pointer"><div></div></div></div></div><div class="flex flex-col justify-between sm:shadow-xl border bg-white dark:bg-black border-grey/10 dark:border-grey" data-aos="flip-left" data-aos-duration="300"><div class="text-center sm:text-left"><img alt="Mr. Himanshu Kapania" loading="lazy" width="220" height="260" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="pt-5 sm:pt-0 dark:grayscale sm:border-r-8 mx-auto sm:mx-0 border-maroon dark:border-white" style="color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 220 260'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAAECAIAAADETxJQAAAACXBIWXMAAAPoAAAD6AG1e1JrAAAAM0lEQVR4nAEoANf/AP///66Uiv79/QDs5N/DhmX58uwAjIONoIN18vHxABYAGkI6SWlgaiKfFybE/6KMAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC'/%3E%3C/svg%3E")" srcSet="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_himanshu_kapania_9c11a19a5e.webp&w=256&q=100 1x, /_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_himanshu_kapania_9c11a19a5e.webp&w=640&q=100 2x" src="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_himanshu_kapania_9c11a19a5e.webp&w=640&q=100"/><div class="px-5 py-5"><div class="text-lg text-center sm:text-left text-maroon dark:text-white leading-tight mb-2">Mr. Himanshu Kapania</div><div class="text-base text-center sm:text-left text-grey dark:text-white/70 font-[400] leading-tight mb-2">Director, Aditya Birla Management Corporation Private Ltd (ABMCPL)</div></div></div><div class="flex justify-center sm:justify-start px-5 mb-5"><div class="inline-flex gap-2 cursor-pointer"><div></div></div></div></div><div class="flex flex-col justify-between sm:shadow-xl border bg-white dark:bg-black border-grey/10 dark:border-grey" data-aos="flip-left" data-aos-duration="300"><div class="text-center sm:text-left"><img alt="Mr. K. C. Jhanwar" loading="lazy" width="220" height="260" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="pt-5 sm:pt-0 dark:grayscale sm:border-r-8 mx-auto sm:mx-0 border-maroon dark:border-white" style="color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 220 260'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAAECAIAAADETxJQAAAACXBIWXMAAAPoAAAD6AG1e1JrAAAAM0lEQVR4nAEoANf/APn4+YF3eP39/QDv7e1TMzP39fUAW2Bmlomae3+FAAAGE9S73BYbI+0WFObmCpmRAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC'/%3E%3C/svg%3E")" srcSet="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_k_c_jhanwar_7c1a58c130.webp&w=256&q=100 1x, /_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_k_c_jhanwar_7c1a58c130.webp&w=640&q=100 2x" src="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_k_c_jhanwar_7c1a58c130.webp&w=640&q=100"/><div class="px-5 py-5"><div class="text-lg text-center sm:text-left text-maroon dark:text-white leading-tight mb-2">Mr. K. C. Jhanwar</div><div class="text-base text-center sm:text-left text-grey dark:text-white/70 font-[400] leading-tight mb-2">Managing Director, UltraTech Cement Ltd</div></div></div><div class="flex justify-center sm:justify-start px-5 mb-5"><div class="inline-flex gap-2 cursor-pointer"><div></div></div></div></div><div class="flex flex-col justify-between sm:shadow-xl border bg-white dark:bg-black border-grey/10 dark:border-grey" data-aos="flip-left" data-aos-duration="300"><div class="text-center sm:text-left"><img alt="Mr. K. K. Maheshwari" loading="lazy" width="220" height="260" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="pt-5 sm:pt-0 dark:grayscale sm:border-r-8 mx-auto sm:mx-0 border-maroon dark:border-white" style="color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 220 260'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAAECAIAAADETxJQAAAACXBIWXMAAAPoAAAD6AG1e1JrAAAAM0lEQVR4nAEoANf/APPy8cSvofz8/ADg1c2RWTn08O4AjYyMa1JGdHV3AB0dICQhIgAFCvbMEy5Y+RF0AAAAAElFTkSuQmCC'/%3E%3C/svg%3E")" srcSet="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_k_k_maheshwari_b36dd219a8.webp&w=256&q=100 1x, /_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_k_k_maheshwari_b36dd219a8.webp&w=640&q=100 2x" src="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_k_k_maheshwari_b36dd219a8.webp&w=640&q=100"/><div class="px-5 py-5"><div class="text-lg text-center sm:text-left text-maroon dark:text-white leading-tight mb-2">Mr. K. K. Maheshwari</div><div class="text-base text-center sm:text-left text-grey dark:text-white/70 font-[400] leading-tight mb-2">Chairman, Business Review Council (Manufacturing); Mentor, Trading Business</div></div></div><div class="flex justify-center sm:justify-start px-5 mb-5"><div class="inline-flex gap-2 cursor-pointer"><div></div></div></div></div><div class="flex flex-col justify-between sm:shadow-xl border bg-white dark:bg-black border-grey/10 dark:border-grey" data-aos="flip-left" data-aos-duration="300"><div class="text-center sm:text-left"><img alt="Mr. Rajeev Sonthalia" loading="lazy" width="220" height="260" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="pt-5 sm:pt-0 dark:grayscale sm:border-r-8 mx-auto sm:mx-0 border-maroon dark:border-white" style="color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 220 260'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAAECAIAAADETxJQAAAACXBIWXMAAAPoAAAD6AG1e1JrAAAAM0lEQVR4nAEoANf/APn495p8aP/++wC0rqqAVTzt3tQA7OnnYD8t//v2AEdJTFVRVwAGF/y9FYkfiD+LAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC'/%3E%3C/svg%3E")" srcSet="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_rajeev_sonthalia_ec33bd4d7b.webp&w=256&q=100 1x, /_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_rajeev_sonthalia_ec33bd4d7b.webp&w=640&q=100 2x" src="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_rajeev_sonthalia_ec33bd4d7b.webp&w=640&q=100"/><div class="px-5 py-5"><div class="text-lg text-center sm:text-left text-maroon dark:text-white leading-tight mb-2">Mr. Rajeev Sonthalia</div><div class="text-base text-center sm:text-left text-grey dark:text-white/70 font-[400] leading-tight mb-2">Director, Aditya Birla Management Corporation Private Ltd (ABMCPL)</div></div></div><div class="flex justify-center sm:justify-start px-5 mb-5"><div class="inline-flex gap-2 cursor-pointer"><div></div></div></div></div><div class="flex flex-col justify-between sm:shadow-xl border bg-white dark:bg-black border-grey/10 dark:border-grey" data-aos="flip-left" data-aos-duration="300"><div class="text-center sm:text-left"><img alt="Mr. Satish Pai" loading="lazy" width="220" height="260" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="pt-5 sm:pt-0 dark:grayscale sm:border-r-8 mx-auto sm:mx-0 border-maroon dark:border-white" style="color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 220 260'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAAECAIAAADETxJQAAAACXBIWXMAAAPoAAAD6AG1e1JrAAAAM0lEQVR4nAEoANf/AP/9/MSnkv/+/gD+9e6xfVn08e8AhIOAsZaFsrKyACQkJIJ+fwICACZFFoVAzupgAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC'/%3E%3C/svg%3E")" srcSet="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_satish_pai_5275082347.webp&w=256&q=100 1x, /_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_satish_pai_5275082347.webp&w=640&q=100 2x" src="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_satish_pai_5275082347.webp&w=640&q=100"/><div class="px-5 py-5"><div class="text-lg text-center sm:text-left text-maroon dark:text-white leading-tight mb-2">Mr. Satish Pai</div><div class="text-base text-center sm:text-left text-grey dark:text-white/70 font-[400] leading-tight mb-2">Managing Director, Hindalco Industries Limited</div></div></div><div class="flex justify-center sm:justify-start px-5 mb-5"><div class="inline-flex gap-2 cursor-pointer"><div></div></div></div></div><div class="flex flex-col justify-between sm:shadow-xl border bg-white dark:bg-black border-grey/10 dark:border-grey" data-aos="flip-left" data-aos-duration="300"><div class="text-center sm:text-left"><img alt="Mr. Sushil Agarwal" loading="lazy" width="220" height="260" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="pt-5 sm:pt-0 dark:grayscale sm:border-r-8 mx-auto sm:mx-0 border-maroon dark:border-white" style="color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 220 260'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAAECAIAAADETxJQAAAACXBIWXMAAAPoAAAD6AG1e1JrAAAAM0lEQVR4nAEoANf/AO/s6baMdfr59wDEtKpNFgDm3dcAdnFtVTIb2tjVAAYGBUs6OSwpIsc+EkjF7gqRAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC'/%3E%3C/svg%3E")" srcSet="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fsushil_9f04e3b642.webp&w=256&q=100 1x, /_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fsushil_9f04e3b642.webp&w=640&q=100 2x" src="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fsushil_9f04e3b642.webp&w=640&q=100"/><div class="px-5 py-5"><div class="text-lg text-center sm:text-left text-maroon dark:text-white leading-tight mb-2">Mr. Sushil Agarwal</div><div class="text-base text-center sm:text-left text-grey dark:text-white/70 font-[400] leading-tight mb-2">Chief Financial Officer, Aditya Birla Group</div></div></div><div class="flex justify-center sm:justify-start px-5 mb-5"><div class="inline-flex gap-2 cursor-pointer"><div></div></div></div></div><div class="flex flex-col justify-between sm:shadow-xl border bg-white dark:bg-black border-grey/10 dark:border-grey" data-aos="flip-left" data-aos-duration="300"><div class="text-center sm:text-left"><img alt="Ms. Vishakha Mulye" loading="lazy" width="220" height="260" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="pt-5 sm:pt-0 dark:grayscale sm:border-r-8 mx-auto sm:mx-0 border-maroon dark:border-white" style="color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 220 260'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAAECAIAAADETxJQAAAACXBIWXMAAAPoAAAD6AG1e1JrAAAAMUlEQVR4nGO4deO6q63J379/GXIzkpJslK5fucQQriytwcCwbuF0hggGhjXdzY4yvAB1NQ/Kukpd2QAAAABJRU5ErkJggg=='/%3E%3C/svg%3E")" srcSet="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fms_vishakha_mulye_a252cc78e7.webp&w=256&q=100 1x, /_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fms_vishakha_mulye_a252cc78e7.webp&w=640&q=100 2x" src="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fms_vishakha_mulye_a252cc78e7.webp&w=640&q=100"/><div class="px-5 py-5"><div class="text-lg text-center sm:text-left text-maroon dark:text-white leading-tight mb-2">Ms. Vishakha Mulye</div><div class="text-base text-center sm:text-left text-grey dark:text-white/70 font-[400] leading-tight mb-2">Chief Executive Officer, Aditya Birla Capital Limited (ABCL)</div></div></div><div class="flex justify-center sm:justify-start px-5 mb-5"><div class="inline-flex gap-2 cursor-pointer"><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="py-20 addToNav bg-grey/[0.01] dark:bg-grey" data-nav-title="Business Heads"><div class="container mx-auto px-5"><div class="text-4xl font-[400] text-maroon dark:text-white pb-10" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-duration="300">Business Heads</div><div class="grid grid-cols-1 sm:grid-cols-2 md:grid-cols-3 lg:grid-cols-4 gap-5 xl:gap-10"><div class="flex flex-col justify-between sm:shadow-xl border bg-white dark:bg-black border-grey/10 dark:border-grey" data-aos="flip-left" data-aos-duration="300"><div class="text-center sm:text-left"><img alt="Mr. Atul Daga" loading="lazy" width="220" height="260" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="pt-5 sm:pt-0 dark:grayscale sm:border-r-8 mx-auto sm:mx-0 border-maroon dark:border-white" style="color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 220 260'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAAECAIAAADETxJQAAAACXBIWXMAAAPoAAAD6AG1e1JrAAAAM0lEQVR4nAEoANf/AO3s63pkV/r29gDWwrjypn3XxL0AiYB4k1c4//35AAkDBKmXnz89RPTkFeTXcmSZAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC'/%3E%3C/svg%3E")" srcSet="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_atul_daga_c44dd2c8ab.webp&w=256&q=100 1x, /_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_atul_daga_c44dd2c8ab.webp&w=640&q=100 2x" src="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_atul_daga_c44dd2c8ab.webp&w=640&q=100"/><div class="px-5 py-5"><div class="text-lg text-center sm:text-left text-maroon dark:text-white leading-tight mb-2">Mr. Atul Daga</div><div class="text-base text-center sm:text-left text-grey dark:text-white/70 font-[400] leading-tight mb-2">Executive Director & CFO, UltraTech Cement</div></div></div></div><div class="flex flex-col justify-between sm:shadow-xl border bg-white dark:bg-black border-grey/10 dark:border-grey" data-aos="flip-left" data-aos-duration="300"><div class="text-center sm:text-left"><img alt="Mr. E.R. Raj Narayanan" loading="lazy" width="220" height="260" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="pt-5 sm:pt-0 dark:grayscale sm:border-r-8 mx-auto sm:mx-0 border-maroon dark:border-white" style="color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 220 260'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAAECAIAAADETxJQAAAACXBIWXMAAAPoAAAD6AG1e1JrAAAAM0lEQVR4nAEoANf/AOPg345+ePT09ADz6OSngXH8+/sAwsLJp5WUhYaUACovSF1gdQIAIQ3dFf/ZAAqCAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC'/%3E%3C/svg%3E")" srcSet="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_er_raj_narayanan_2a9a00426d.webp&w=256&q=100 1x, /_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_er_raj_narayanan_2a9a00426d.webp&w=640&q=100 2x" src="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_er_raj_narayanan_2a9a00426d.webp&w=640&q=100"/><div class="px-5 py-5"><div class="text-lg text-center sm:text-left text-maroon dark:text-white leading-tight mb-2">Mr. E.R. Raj Narayanan</div><div class="text-base text-center sm:text-left text-grey dark:text-white/70 font-[400] leading-tight mb-2">Business Head & Chief Manufacturing Officer, UltraTech Cement Ltd.</div></div></div><div class="flex justify-center sm:justify-start px-5 mb-5"><div class="inline-flex gap-2 cursor-pointer"><div></div></div></div></div><div class="flex flex-col justify-between sm:shadow-xl border bg-white dark:bg-black border-grey/10 dark:border-grey" data-aos="flip-left" data-aos-duration="300"><div class="text-center sm:text-left"><img alt="Mr. Jayant V Dhobley" loading="lazy" width="220" height="260" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="pt-5 sm:pt-0 dark:grayscale sm:border-r-8 mx-auto sm:mx-0 border-maroon dark:border-white" style="color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 220 260'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAAECAIAAADETxJQAAAACXBIWXMAAAPoAAAD6AG1e1JrAAAAM0lEQVR4nAEoANf/AP79/eC+p/fv7AD89e+7i3fm2dQAk5KS1ryvwb++AAoCBHVxczo4OjRhF4udUKC2AAAAAElFTkSuQmCC'/%3E%3C/svg%3E")" srcSet="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_jayant_v_dhobley_74c4d69881.webp&w=256&q=100 1x, /_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_jayant_v_dhobley_74c4d69881.webp&w=640&q=100 2x" src="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_jayant_v_dhobley_74c4d69881.webp&w=640&q=100"/><div class="px-5 py-5"><div class="text-lg text-center sm:text-left text-maroon dark:text-white leading-tight mb-2">Mr. Jayant V Dhobley</div><div class="text-base text-center sm:text-left text-grey dark:text-white/70 font-[400] leading-tight mb-2">Business Head and CEO, Global Chemicals, Fashion Yarn & Insulators</div></div></div><div class="flex justify-center sm:justify-start px-5 mb-5"><div class="inline-flex gap-2 cursor-pointer"><div></div></div></div></div><div class="flex flex-col justify-between sm:shadow-xl border bg-white dark:bg-black border-grey/10 dark:border-grey" data-aos="flip-left" data-aos-duration="300"><div class="text-center sm:text-left"><img alt="Mr. Jayant Dua" loading="lazy" width="220" height="260" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="pt-5 sm:pt-0 dark:grayscale sm:border-r-8 mx-auto sm:mx-0 border-maroon dark:border-white" style="color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 220 260'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAAECAIAAADETxJQAAAACXBIWXMAAAPoAAAD6AG1e1JrAAAAL0lEQVR4nGO4cf3G3IkT/v//z/Dkzu1ljWUgVs+k2ZGhSaFRqQyahi4GZl4MjMIA9CITt4aeBfgAAAAASUVORK5CYII='/%3E%3C/svg%3E")" srcSet="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fjayant_dua_90068b73a5.webp&w=256&q=100 1x, /_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fjayant_dua_90068b73a5.webp&w=640&q=100 2x" src="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fjayant_dua_90068b73a5.webp&w=640&q=100"/><div class="px-5 py-5"><div class="text-lg text-center sm:text-left text-maroon dark:text-white leading-tight mb-2">Mr. Jayant Dua</div><div class="text-base text-center sm:text-left text-grey dark:text-white/70 font-[400] leading-tight mb-2">Business Head – Renewables Business and DTAFOS (Domestic Textiles, Acrylic Fibre & Overseas Spinning)</div></div></div><div class="flex justify-center sm:justify-start px-5 mb-5"><div class="inline-flex gap-2 cursor-pointer"><div></div></div></div></div><div class="flex flex-col justify-between sm:shadow-xl border bg-white dark:bg-black border-grey/10 dark:border-grey" data-aos="flip-left" data-aos-duration="300"><div class="text-center sm:text-left"><img alt="Mr. Kapil Agarwal" loading="lazy" width="220" height="260" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="pt-5 sm:pt-0 dark:grayscale sm:border-r-8 mx-auto sm:mx-0 border-maroon dark:border-white" style="color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 220 260'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAAECAIAAADETxJQAAAACXBIWXMAAAPoAAAD6AG1e1JrAAAAL0lEQVR4nGN48eTR/JaG////MxzavXt9VxuIxcLEra1ucOb0GQZhIXF1eeXSjEwA1rsTJDnqcaQAAAAASUVORK5CYII='/%3E%3C/svg%3E")" srcSet="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_kapil_agrawal_23738c6042.webp&w=256&q=100 1x, /_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_kapil_agrawal_23738c6042.webp&w=640&q=100 2x" src="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_kapil_agrawal_23738c6042.webp&w=640&q=100"/><div class="px-5 py-5"><div class="text-lg text-center sm:text-left text-maroon dark:text-white leading-tight mb-2">Mr. Kapil Agarwal</div><div class="text-base text-center sm:text-left text-grey dark:text-white/70 font-[400] leading-tight mb-2">Business Head, Textiles, Aditya Birla Group</div></div></div><div class="flex justify-center sm:justify-start px-5 mb-5"><div class="inline-flex gap-2 cursor-pointer"><div></div></div></div></div><div class="flex flex-col justify-between sm:shadow-xl border bg-white dark:bg-black border-grey/10 dark:border-grey" data-aos="flip-left" data-aos-duration="300"><div class="text-center sm:text-left"><img alt="Mr. Shrijeet Mishra" loading="lazy" width="220" height="260" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="pt-5 sm:pt-0 dark:grayscale sm:border-r-8 mx-auto sm:mx-0 border-maroon dark:border-white" style="color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 220 260'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAAECAIAAADETxJQAAAACXBIWXMAAAPoAAAD6AG1e1JrAAAAM0lEQVR4nAEoANf/AOTk4ZiSi/7+/gDNxLx8VUHs5+QA0s3KVjwuhoeLACs0PBccJQADEegNEzc6qo6HAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC'/%3E%3C/svg%3E")" srcSet="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_shrijeet_mishra_0eaf76cfd4.webp&w=256&q=100 1x, /_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_shrijeet_mishra_0eaf76cfd4.webp&w=640&q=100 2x" src="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_shrijeet_mishra_0eaf76cfd4.webp&w=640&q=100"/><div class="px-5 py-5"><div class="text-lg text-center sm:text-left text-maroon dark:text-white leading-tight mb-2">Mr. Shrijeet Mishra</div><div class="text-base text-center sm:text-left text-grey dark:text-white/70 font-[400] leading-tight mb-2">Chief Innovation Officer and Head Group Services</div></div></div><div class="flex justify-center sm:justify-start px-5 mb-5"><div class="inline-flex gap-2 cursor-pointer"><div></div></div></div></div><div class="flex flex-col justify-between sm:shadow-xl border bg-white dark:bg-black border-grey/10 dark:border-grey" data-aos="flip-left" data-aos-duration="300"><div class="text-center sm:text-left"><img alt="Mr. Steven Fisher" loading="lazy" width="220" height="260" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="pt-5 sm:pt-0 dark:grayscale sm:border-r-8 mx-auto sm:mx-0 border-maroon dark:border-white" style="color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 220 260'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAAECAIAAADETxJQAAAACXBIWXMAAAPoAAAD6AG1e1JrAAAAM0lEQVR4nAEoANf/APXy8rOXjv37+wDTzMjUiXH36eUA5eTjp29d/vz8AAsBAIJ+gzMtLSwiF9DVO2PsAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC'/%3E%3C/svg%3E")" srcSet="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_steven_fisher_11da90f3ee.webp&w=256&q=100 1x, /_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_steven_fisher_11da90f3ee.webp&w=640&q=100 2x" src="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_steven_fisher_11da90f3ee.webp&w=640&q=100"/><div class="px-5 py-5"><div class="text-lg text-center sm:text-left text-maroon dark:text-white leading-tight mb-2">Mr. Steven Fisher</div><div class="text-base text-center sm:text-left text-grey dark:text-white/70 font-[400] leading-tight mb-2">President & Chief Executive Officer, Novelis Inc</div></div></div><div class="flex justify-center sm:justify-start px-5 mb-5"><div class="inline-flex gap-2 cursor-pointer"><div></div></div></div></div><div class="flex flex-col justify-between sm:shadow-xl border bg-white dark:bg-black border-grey/10 dark:border-grey" data-aos="flip-left" data-aos-duration="300"><div class="text-center sm:text-left"><img alt="Mr. Sunil Bajaj" loading="lazy" width="220" height="260" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="pt-5 sm:pt-0 dark:grayscale sm:border-r-8 mx-auto sm:mx-0 border-maroon dark:border-white" style="color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 220 260'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAAECAIAAADETxJQAAAACXBIWXMAAAPoAAAD6AG1e1JrAAAAM0lEQVR4nAEoANf/AP/69v3QsPv28QD36d+neGPm1MoAkYyVqJCKhoOGAConQYuUrQMAFycAFo9UgjGWAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC'/%3E%3C/svg%3E")" srcSet="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fsunil_bajaj_c7af6e7e18.webp&w=256&q=100 1x, /_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fsunil_bajaj_c7af6e7e18.webp&w=640&q=100 2x" src="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fsunil_bajaj_c7af6e7e18.webp&w=640&q=100"/><div class="px-5 py-5"><div class="text-lg text-center sm:text-left text-maroon dark:text-white leading-tight mb-2">Mr. Sunil Bajaj</div><div class="text-base text-center sm:text-left text-grey dark:text-white/70 font-[400] leading-tight mb-2">Group Director – Corporate Affairs & Development, Aditya Birla Group</div></div></div><div class="flex justify-center sm:justify-start px-5 mb-5"><div class="inline-flex gap-2 cursor-pointer"><div></div></div></div></div><div class="flex flex-col justify-between sm:shadow-xl border bg-white dark:bg-black border-grey/10 dark:border-grey" data-aos="flip-left" data-aos-duration="300"><div class="text-center sm:text-left"><img alt="Mr. Vishak Kumar" loading="lazy" width="220" height="260" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="pt-5 sm:pt-0 dark:grayscale sm:border-r-8 mx-auto sm:mx-0 border-maroon dark:border-white" style="color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 220 260'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAAECAIAAADETxJQAAAACXBIWXMAAAPoAAAD6AG1e1JrAAAAM0lEQVR4nAEoANf/ANra2kI7O9TU1ADW0Mu0dkHPyccA0dLRm10sx8fFACApJv/88AAFAdI1FUkBmBETAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC'/%3E%3C/svg%3E")" srcSet="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fvishak_kumar_a8caf333ee.webp&w=256&q=100 1x, /_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fvishak_kumar_a8caf333ee.webp&w=640&q=100 2x" src="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fvishak_kumar_a8caf333ee.webp&w=640&q=100"/><div class="px-5 py-5"><div class="text-lg text-center sm:text-left text-maroon dark:text-white leading-tight mb-2">Mr. Vishak Kumar</div><div class="text-base text-center sm:text-left text-grey dark:text-white/70 font-[400] leading-tight mb-2">Business Head & CEO, Madura Fashion & Lifestyle (MFL)</div></div></div><div class="flex justify-center sm:justify-start px-5 mb-5"><div class="inline-flex gap-2 cursor-pointer"><div></div></div></div></div><div class="flex flex-col justify-between sm:shadow-xl border bg-white dark:bg-black border-grey/10 dark:border-grey" data-aos="flip-left" data-aos-duration="300"><div class="text-center sm:text-left"><img alt="Mr. Vivek Agrawal" loading="lazy" width="220" height="260" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="pt-5 sm:pt-0 dark:grayscale sm:border-r-8 mx-auto sm:mx-0 border-maroon dark:border-white" style="color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 220 260'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAAECAIAAADETxJQAAAACXBIWXMAAAPoAAAD6AG1e1JrAAAAM0lEQVR4nAEoANf/AP39/dPLxf39/QDAtrLIm3qooZ4A6eHam2ZK2c3EAEJCTgoAHQYFFyBdFbLnXjsaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC'/%3E%3C/svg%3E")" srcSet="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_vivek_agrawal_01104619f6.webp&w=256&q=100 1x, /_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_vivek_agrawal_01104619f6.webp&w=640&q=100 2x" src="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_vivek_agrawal_01104619f6.webp&w=640&q=100"/><div class="px-5 py-5"><div class="text-lg text-center sm:text-left text-maroon dark:text-white leading-tight mb-2">Mr. Vivek Agrawal</div><div class="text-base text-center sm:text-left text-grey dark:text-white/70 font-[400] leading-tight mb-2">Business Head & Chief Marketing Officer, UltraTech Cement</div></div></div><div class="flex justify-center sm:justify-start px-5 mb-5"><div class="inline-flex gap-2 cursor-pointer"><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="py-20 addToNav bg-grey dark:bg-black" data-nav-title="Our Mentors"><div class="container mx-auto px-5"><div class="text-4xl font-[400] text-white pb-10" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-duration="300">Our Mentors</div><div class="grid grid-cols-1 sm:grid-cols-2 md:grid-cols-3 lg:grid-cols-4 gap-5 xl:gap-10"><div class="flex flex-col justify-between sm:shadow-xl bg-maroon dark:bg-grey border-grey/10 dark:border-grey" data-aos="flip-left" data-aos-duration="300"><div class="text-center sm:text-left"><img alt="Mrs. Rajashree Birla" loading="lazy" width="220" height="260" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="pt-5 sm:pt-0 dark:grayscale sm:border-r-8 mx-auto sm:mx-0 border-white" style="color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 220 260'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAAECAIAAADETxJQAAAACXBIWXMAAAPoAAAD6AG1e1JrAAAAM0lEQVR4nAEoANf/AP///3lxc+Xl5gD5+fmWamPNycgA///+tJyJ5tfNAODWysfHvSoAADB8GgtWmeRsAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC'/%3E%3C/svg%3E")" srcSet="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmrs_rajashree_birla_1d4e595654.webp&w=256&q=100 1x, /_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmrs_rajashree_birla_1d4e595654.webp&w=640&q=100 2x" src="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmrs_rajashree_birla_1d4e595654.webp&w=640&q=100"/><div class="px-5 py-5"><div class="text-lg text-center sm:text-left text-white dark:text-white leading-tight mb-2">Mrs. Rajashree Birla</div><div class="text-base text-center sm:text-left text-white/70 dark:text-white/70 font-[400] leading-tight mb-2">Chairperson, The Aditya Birla Centre for Community Initiative and Rural Development</div></div></div><div class="flex justify-center sm:justify-start px-5 mb-5"><div class="inline-flex gap-2 cursor-pointer"><div></div></div></div></div><div class="flex flex-col justify-between sm:shadow-xl bg-maroon dark:bg-grey border-grey/10 dark:border-grey" data-aos="flip-left" data-aos-duration="300"><div class="text-center sm:text-left"><img alt="Mr. Askaran Agarwala" loading="lazy" width="220" height="260" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="pt-5 sm:pt-0 dark:grayscale sm:border-r-8 mx-auto sm:mx-0 border-white" style="color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 220 260'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAAECAIAAADETxJQAAAACXBIWXMAAAPoAAAD6AG1e1JrAAAAM0lEQVR4nAEoANf/AP38/P/avvv18QDn2tTLhV/XvK8A29TPx3JJ38q+AAgHDMmspgICCTj1F57RQteNAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC'/%3E%3C/svg%3E")" srcSet="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Faskaran_agarwala_128754c3ca.webp&w=256&q=100 1x, /_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Faskaran_agarwala_128754c3ca.webp&w=640&q=100 2x" src="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Faskaran_agarwala_128754c3ca.webp&w=640&q=100"/><div class="px-5 py-5"><div class="text-lg text-center sm:text-left text-white dark:text-white leading-tight mb-2">Mr. Askaran Agarwala</div><div class="text-base text-center sm:text-left text-white/70 dark:text-white/70 font-[400] leading-tight mb-2">Group Advisor, Birla Group Trusts & Special Community Projects</div></div></div></div><div class="flex flex-col justify-between sm:shadow-xl bg-maroon dark:bg-grey border-grey/10 dark:border-grey" data-aos="flip-left" data-aos-duration="300"><div class="text-center sm:text-left"><img alt="Mr. Shailendra Jain" loading="lazy" width="220" height="260" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="pt-5 sm:pt-0 dark:grayscale sm:border-r-8 mx-auto sm:mx-0 border-white" style="color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 220 260'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAAECAIAAADETxJQAAAACXBIWXMAAAPoAAAD6AG1e1JrAAAAM0lEQVR4nAEoANf/APX19XdhV+vr6wD/9/LSlH359PIAOSsjnXlzrKeiAB0JAHxxcRMAAO/OFBbs16SQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC'/%3E%3C/svg%3E")" srcSet="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_shailendra_jain_fc34e466a4.webp&w=256&q=100 1x, /_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_shailendra_jain_fc34e466a4.webp&w=640&q=100 2x" src="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_shailendra_jain_fc34e466a4.webp&w=640&q=100"/><div class="px-5 py-5"><div class="text-lg text-center sm:text-left text-white dark:text-white leading-tight mb-2">Mr. Shailendra Jain</div><div class="text-base text-center sm:text-left text-white/70 dark:text-white/70 font-[400] leading-tight mb-2">Member, Business Review Council</div></div></div></div><div class="flex flex-col justify-between sm:shadow-xl bg-maroon dark:bg-grey border-grey/10 dark:border-grey" data-aos="flip-left" data-aos-duration="300"><div class="text-center sm:text-left"><img alt="Mr. Sushil Kumar Saboo" loading="lazy" width="220" height="260" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="pt-5 sm:pt-0 dark:grayscale sm:border-r-8 mx-auto sm:mx-0 border-white" style="color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 220 260'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAAECAIAAADETxJQAAAACXBIWXMAAAPoAAAD6AG1e1JrAAAAMUlEQVR4nGOY3VSyoDLl7t27DGFGUm4iDD9//mRw1Fcy4ma4cPEiAwMTQ2RWhaiEBABQaw5QcHJCnAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg=='/%3E%3C/svg%3E")" srcSet="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_sushil_kumar_saboo_6ad172f196.webp&w=256&q=100 1x, /_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_sushil_kumar_saboo_6ad172f196.webp&w=640&q=100 2x" src="/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cms.adityabirla.com%2Fuploads%2Fmr_sushil_kumar_saboo_6ad172f196.webp&w=640&q=100"/><div class="px-5 py-5"><div class="text-lg text-center sm:text-left text-white dark:text-white leading-tight mb-2">Mr. Sushil Kumar Saboo</div><div class="text-base text-center sm:text-left text-white/70 dark:text-white/70 font-[400] leading-tight mb-2">Advisor</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="bg-grey/20 dark:hidden lg:hidden h-[1px]"></div><div class="bg-grey/20 dark:hidden lg:hidden h-[1px]"></div><div class="py-20 bg-white dark:bg-grey addToNav" data-nav-title="The Vanguard"><div class="container mx-auto px-5"><div class="flex flex-col md:flex-row items-start gap-5 mb-10"><div class="text-4xl font-[400] text-maroon dark:text-white min-w-[300px]" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-duration="300">The Vanguard</div><div class="w-full"><div class="md:max-w-[800px] md:ml-auto"><p class="text-base leading-normal text-grey dark:text-white" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-duration="300">Aditya Birla Management Corporation Private Limited (ABMCPL) is the Group's apex decision-making body and provides strategic direction to Group Companies. The Group's Corporate Functions provide a strategic overview and act as consultants to the Group companies.</p></div></div></div><div><div class="border-b border-grey/20 dark:border-white/20 last:border-none"><div class="flex justify-between py-3 text-lg font-[500] text-maroon dark:text-white cursor-pointer "><div>Chairman's Office </div><div class="h-[25px] px-2 border border-maroon dark:border-white text-maroon dark:text-white flex items-center"><span class="Accordion_icon__ktirT">v</span></div></div><div class="relative overflow-hidden transition-height duration-150 " style="height:0px"><div class="mb-10"><p class="text-base text-grey/70 dark:text-white/70 mb-5">"Chairman's Office assists the Chairman in strategic planning and monitoring of the Group businesses. It operates closely with Aditya Birla Management Corporation Private Ltd, Directors, Business Heads, Corporate Functions and the Business Review Councils.<br/><br/>The Chairman's Office supports the Chairman in driving the planning and budgeting process, conducting regular review and evaluation of business performance, decision-making on capital expenditure proposals, and formulation and implementation of strategic initiatives. It prioritises key areas of focus and actively follows up on strategic and operational issues, on behalf of the Chairman."<br/><br/></p><div class="text-base text-grey dark:text-white font-[500]">Headed by Mr. Umesh Adhikary & Mr. Sitalakshmanan Ganesh</div></div></div></div><div class="border-b border-grey/20 dark:border-white/20 last:border-none"><div class="flex justify-between py-3 text-lg font-[500] text-maroon dark:text-white cursor-pointer "><div>Consumer Insights and Brand Development Cell</div><div class="h-[25px] px-2 border border-maroon dark:border-white text-maroon dark:text-white flex items-center"><span class="Accordion_icon__ktirT">v</span></div></div><div class="relative overflow-hidden transition-height duration-150 " style="height:0px"><div class="mb-10"><p class="text-base text-grey/70 dark:text-white/70 mb-5">"The Consumer Insights and Brand Development Cell's mandate is to accelerate revenue growth profitably for the Group’s businesses, product and service innovation based on supporting them to further enhance their insight into their consumers, and their ability to develop strong brands. The cell works on strengthening the efforts of various businesses in this area and on exploring possible synergies. It endeavours to promote a customer and market-driven approach, becoming integral to the business planning process, the deployment of relevant, “cutting-edge” marketing tools, and the alignment of product and service brands with the Group’s overall brand promise."<br/><br/></p><div class="text-base text-grey dark:text-white font-[500]">Headed by Ms. Sunita Bangard</div></div></div></div><div class="border-b border-grey/20 dark:border-white/20 last:border-none"><div class="flex justify-between py-3 text-lg font-[500] text-maroon dark:text-white cursor-pointer "><div>Corporate Administration</div><div class="h-[25px] px-2 border border-maroon dark:border-white text-maroon dark:text-white flex items-center"><span class="Accordion_icon__ktirT">v</span></div></div><div class="relative overflow-hidden transition-height duration-150 " style="height:0px"><div class="mb-10"><p class="text-base text-grey/70 dark:text-white/70 mb-5">"The Corporate Administration Function plays a pivotal role in guaranteeing stable and reliable processes, 24X7 to our Businesses, and enabling them to focus on their core goals. The Function manages high-cost and multi-transaction verticals such as employee services support, travel management, services contracting, logistics, transport, real estate, and facility management services.<br/><br/>The focus is on creating world class service delivery mechanisms at the best cost and value proposition – by building partnerships with service specialists, developing clear service delivery processes in line with Group policies, benchmarking of costs and services through MIS, understanding of the internal customer’s requirements through surveys, innovation, and digitalisation of processes.<br/><br/>The Function also manages the Group’s unique employee emergency programme, ABG Code Red. The underlying goal is to ensure that our employees receive best-in-class services."<br/><br/></p><div class="text-base text-grey dark:text-white font-[500]">Headed by Mr. Subrat Sarkar </div></div></div></div><div class="border-b border-grey/20 dark:border-white/20 last:border-none"><div class="flex justify-between py-3 text-lg font-[500] text-maroon dark:text-white cursor-pointer "><div>CSR, Legacy Documentation & Archives</div><div class="h-[25px] px-2 border border-maroon dark:border-white text-maroon dark:text-white flex items-center"><span class="Accordion_icon__ktirT">v</span></div></div><div class="relative overflow-hidden transition-height duration-150 " style="height:0px"><div class="mb-10"><p class="text-base text-grey/70 dark:text-white/70 mb-5">The Aditya Birla Centre for Community Initiatives and Rural Development, is the apex body, chaired by Mrs. Rajashree Birla and anchored in the Group CSR function led by Dr. Pragnya Ram, Group Executive President, CSR, Legacy Documentation and Archives, supported by a 1200 strong committed cohort. The Centre provides the strategic direction to all of the Group companies. It is tasked to script the CSR path based on the needs of the communities along with the active involvement of the Business Directors, Unit Heads and the CSR Board of Directors.<br/><br/>Our Group's CSR vision is: To actively contribute to the social and economic development of the communities in which we operate and beyond. In sync with the UN SDGs our endeavour is to lift the burden of poverty weighing down the underserved and foster inclusive growth. In doing so, build a better, sustainable way of life for the weaker, marginalized sections of society and enrich lives. Be a force for good.<br/><br/>Through a truly transformative journey, focusing on healthcare, education, sustainable livelihood, infrastructure, and social reform, the CSR function plays an integral role in helping change the lives of those living on the fringes of society in India and globally. Its purpose is to engage, uplift and empower the underprivileged.<br/><br/>The Group's Central Archives, housed at ABSTC, aims to capture, preserve, inventorise and conserve the Group's heritage – the storied organisational legacy of Aditya Birla Group and its companies, for posterity. Its mission is to shape the archives to be the central repository of all important organisational records / material / memorabilia that help depict the history and heritage of the Group.<br/><br/>In the process it endeavours to create an archival treasure trove and bring under one single roof the records of its companies’ plants / different locations.<br/><br/>From the archival treasure trove, legacy documentation is the forward step. Legacy documentation entails recording in print the Group's storied history and heritage, based on this authoritative repository. And on this foundation, pen books that celebrate the Group/Group Companies through its history, its narratives, and the way it has contributed to the social, economic, and moral fabric of our nation and beyond, spanning 40 countries across the globe.</p><div class="text-base text-grey dark:text-white font-[500]">Headed by Dr. Pragnya Ram</div></div></div></div><div class="border-b border-grey/20 dark:border-white/20 last:border-none"><div class="flex justify-between py-3 text-lg font-[500] text-maroon dark:text-white cursor-pointer "><div>Corporate Affairs and Development Cell</div><div class="h-[25px] px-2 border border-maroon dark:border-white text-maroon dark:text-white flex items-center"><span class="Accordion_icon__ktirT">v</span></div></div><div class="relative overflow-hidden transition-height duration-150 " style="height:0px"><div class="mb-10"><p class="text-base text-grey/70 dark:text-white/70 mb-5">"Corporate Affairs and Development Cell is Aditya Birla Group's hub for all corporate affairs activities. It acts as a catalyst towards the Group's relationship with key functionaries in policy and bureaucracy, both at the centre as well as the states.<br/><br/>The function provides support and value-added services to all the Group Companies on intrinsic and extrinsic matters, particularly with regard to central and the state governments, legislators, administrators, diplomatic community, trade chambers, and various interest groups.<br/><br/>It works as a sounding board for in-time dissemination of information to the internal stakeholders across geographies with regard to the changes that are likely to take place, and also acts in an advisory capacity with regard to various steps to be taken to protect, promote and accomplish the Group's business development interests.<br/><br/>The Corporate Affairs and Development Function also plays a key role in strategic matters while recommending actions that are based upon Indian and global business relevance to the units and businesses in line with the Group's values, goals and objectives, with an aim to creating kinship with a conducive public policy environment."<br/><br/></p><div class="text-base text-grey dark:text-white font-[500]">Headed by Mr. Sunil Bajaj & Mr. Amit Bajaj</div></div></div></div><div class="border-b border-grey/20 dark:border-white/20 last:border-none"><div class="flex justify-between py-3 text-lg font-[500] text-maroon dark:text-white cursor-pointer "><div>Corporate Economics Cell</div><div class="h-[25px] px-2 border border-maroon dark:border-white text-maroon dark:text-white flex items-center"><span class="Accordion_icon__ktirT">v</span></div></div><div class="relative overflow-hidden transition-height duration-150 " style="height:0px"><div class="mb-10"><p class="text-base text-grey/70 dark:text-white/70 mb-5">" Corporate Economics Cell (CEC) is a research-based advisor for Aditya Birla Group. CEC deciphers the business environment by continuously tracking, assessing, analysing and forecasting global and domestic economic trends and policies. It provides analytical inputs and economic information to different decision-makers in the Group at the corporate as well as business level. It also provides inputs on risk management relating to economic variables such as currency and commodity prices.<br/><br/>CEC has an important role in policy advocacy in interactions with the government, industry associations and regulators. In recent years, CEC has helped strengthen initiatives in diverse areas like sustainability and competition law.<br/><br/>CEC's research supports businesses in various areas, including market risk management, forecasts of key economic variables, consumer research, country macro risk assessment, sectoral trends, and trade policies. CEC engages with policy makers, chambers of commerce, and other agencies on matters of economic importance. It develops and maintains relevant economic databases and disseminates economic knowledge through various reports and interactive fora."<br/><br/></p><div class="text-base text-grey dark:text-white font-[500]">Headed by Dr. Ila Patnaik </div></div></div></div><div class="border-b border-grey/20 dark:border-white/20 last:border-none"><div class="flex justify-between py-3 text-lg font-[500] text-maroon dark:text-white cursor-pointer "><div>Corporate Finance Group</div><div class="h-[25px] px-2 border border-maroon dark:border-white text-maroon dark:text-white flex items-center"><span class="Accordion_icon__ktirT">v</span></div></div><div class="relative overflow-hidden transition-height duration-150 " style="height:0px"><div class="mb-10"><p class="text-base text-grey/70 dark:text-white/70 mb-5">"Corporate Finance Group (CFG) triggers and supports growth for existing businesses through both organic initiatives (capital allocation) and through mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures and identifies new business opportunities for the Group. It also monitors value-based management through the planning and budgeting process, and performance measurement of Group businesses.<br/><br/>CFG works with companies to raise long-term debt and equity capital in domestic as well as international markets and also supports the listed companies in Group-level investor relations activities."<br/><br/></p><div class="text-base text-grey dark:text-white font-[500]">Headed by Mr. Sandeep Agarwal</div></div></div></div><div class="border-b border-grey/20 dark:border-white/20 last:border-none"><div class="flex justify-between py-3 text-lg font-[500] text-maroon dark:text-white cursor-pointer "><div>Corporate Innovation</div><div class="h-[25px] px-2 border border-maroon dark:border-white text-maroon dark:text-white flex items-center"><span class="Accordion_icon__ktirT">v</span></div></div><div class="relative overflow-hidden transition-height duration-150 " style="height:0px"><div class="mb-10"><p class="text-base text-grey/70 dark:text-white/70 mb-5">"Corporate Innovation cell harnesses the power of innovation to build internal capabilities across businesses, craft solutions to meet business needs, identify future business prospects, and create more stakeholder value. It builds the Group’s innovation capability through developing a culture of learning in the organisation.<br/><br/>Corporate Innovation drives a collaborative approach between various corporate functions to promote innovation, by employing their inter-disciplinary skills."<br/><br/></p><div class="text-base text-grey dark:text-white font-[500]">Headed by Mr. Shrijeet Mishra</div></div></div></div><div class="border-b border-grey/20 dark:border-white/20 last:border-none"><div class="flex justify-between py-3 text-lg font-[500] text-maroon dark:text-white cursor-pointer "><div>Group Legal & Compliance</div><div class="h-[25px] px-2 border border-maroon dark:border-white text-maroon dark:text-white flex items-center"><span class="Accordion_icon__ktirT">v</span></div></div><div class="relative overflow-hidden transition-height duration-150 " style="height:0px"><div class="mb-10"><p class="text-base text-grey/70 dark:text-white/70 mb-5">"Group Legal & Compliance is the apex legal team for the whole Aditya Birla Group. Established in 1998, it has, over the years, transformed itself into an integral part of the business process by providing timely and quality legal services on a wide range of strategic and transaction-related issues in a cost-efficient manner.<br/><br/>It has an impressive track record of having handled complex acquisitions, corporate re-structuring and varied arbitration / litigation. It has also formed Group policies / guidelines on key issues, such as intellectual property rights, competition laws and corporate governance.<br/><br/>Group Legal & Compliance works in close coordination with other corporate functions to provide integrated business solutions, keeping in view the applicable legal environment. It has acquired the competence to provide legal assistance and advice in different jurisdictions. It plays a significant role in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures (both domestic and cross border), and corporate re-structuring.<br/><br/>Moreover, Group Legal & Compliance works as a business partner for all our businesses and functions, and will shoulder responsibility for meeting business and functional targets by proactively anticipating issues that might come in the way of implementing business strategy."<br/><br/></p><div class="text-base text-grey dark:text-white font-[500]">Headed by Mr. Deepak Acharya</div></div></div></div><div class="border-b border-grey/20 dark:border-white/20 last:border-none"><div class="flex justify-between py-3 text-lg font-[500] text-maroon dark:text-white cursor-pointer "><div>Corporate Management Audit </div><div class="h-[25px] px-2 border border-maroon dark:border-white text-maroon dark:text-white flex items-center"><span class="Accordion_icon__ktirT">v</span></div></div><div class="relative overflow-hidden transition-height duration-150 " style="height:0px"><div class="mb-10"><p class="text-base text-grey/70 dark:text-white/70 mb-5">"Corporate Management Audit is committed towards system perfection across Aditya Birla Group in India and overseas. It functions by continuous evolution, implementation and review of controls and best practices.<br/><br/>It maintains corporate governance and mitigation of risks across the Group through robust, zero-tolerant internal control systems, cost reduction methods, adherence to Group policies and values, effective MIS, adequacy of risk mitigation plan and statutory compliance.<br/><br/>The function regularly shares information, best practices among the units and helps the Group to keep pace with the fast-changing business scenario and enables value addition to the stakeholders."<br/><br/></p><div class="text-base text-grey dark:text-white font-[500]">Headed by Mr. Duli Kabra & Mr. Sudhir Dalvi</div></div></div></div><div class="border-b border-grey/20 dark:border-white/20 last:border-none"><div class="flex justify-between py-3 text-lg font-[500] text-maroon dark:text-white cursor-pointer "><div>Corporate Strategy and Business Development</div><div class="h-[25px] px-2 border border-maroon dark:border-white text-maroon dark:text-white flex items-center"><span class="Accordion_icon__ktirT">v</span></div></div><div class="relative overflow-hidden transition-height duration-150 " style="height:0px"><div class="mb-10"><p class="text-base text-grey/70 dark:text-white/70 mb-5">"Corporate Strategy and Business Development continuously tracks the business environment for Aditya Birla Group's existing businesses. It recommends new directions through evaluation of deal creation opportunities, analysis of project proposals, etc. The function also plans and develops strategic initiatives for the Group and facilitates its execution.<br/><br/>Additionally, it assists businesses in crafting their strategic direction and evaluates options for long-term growth, both organic and inorganic. It works towards identifying sources of competitive advantage for the businesses, viz., exploration of new markets and geographies, analysis of integration across the industry's value chain, etc.<br/><br/>For new businesses, the function primarily focuses on opportunities, which take cues from the concept of megatrends, adjacencies and synergies to the Group's existing businesses."<br/><br/></p><div class="text-base text-grey dark:text-white font-[500]">Headed by Mr. Rajeev Sonthalia</div></div></div></div><div class="border-b border-grey/20 dark:border-white/20 last:border-none"><div class="flex justify-between py-3 text-lg font-[500] text-maroon dark:text-white cursor-pointer "><div>Group Data and Analytics</div><div class="h-[25px] px-2 border border-maroon dark:border-white text-maroon dark:text-white flex items-center"><span class="Accordion_icon__ktirT">v</span></div></div><div class="relative overflow-hidden transition-height duration-150 " style="height:0px"><div class="mb-10"><p class="text-base text-grey/70 dark:text-white/70 mb-5">"Given the fast-paced technological advancement and the ever-intensifying competitive landscape, an increasing number of organisations are beginning to realise the potential of big data and analytics in driving improved business outcomes. The power of big data is derived from the underlying rich and valuable insights about individuals, institutions, and processes that empower and enable businesses to serve their customers and improve business operations through data-driven decision making thereby driving competitive advantage.<br/><br/>To tap into this tremendous business opportunity, Group Data and Analytics function has been created at the Group’s centre to work closely with the Businesses on strategising and delivering on its business priorities through leveraging the power of data and analytics. The function will build strong analytics and domain expertise drawn from the best-in-class talent from leading global and Indian Businesses and India’s premier educational institutions, coupled with cutting edge tools and technologies built on a highly scalable and robust big data infrastructure to mine petabytes of structured and unstructured data in seconds.<br/><br/>The analytics team of Data scientists and Big data engineers will combine their strong expertise and business knowledge with the power of predictive analytics, sophisticated machine learning algorithms and advanced quantitative techniques to provide our Group Companies with high-end applied Analytics solutions across B2B and B2C businesses and functions."<br/><br/></p><div class="text-base text-grey dark:text-white font-[500]">Headed by Mr. Pankaj Rai</div></div></div></div><div class="border-b border-grey/20 dark:border-white/20 last:border-none"><div class="flex justify-between py-3 text-lg font-[500] text-maroon dark:text-white cursor-pointer "><div>Group Communication and Brand</div><div class="h-[25px] px-2 border border-maroon dark:border-white text-maroon dark:text-white flex items-center"><span class="Accordion_icon__ktirT">v</span></div></div><div class="relative overflow-hidden transition-height duration-150 " style="height:0px"><div class="mb-10"><p class="text-base text-grey/70 dark:text-white/70 mb-5">Communication and Brand is a service-oriented support function which enhances the Aditya Birla brand credibility, every which way. The function works to strengthen the Group's competitive advantage through proactive, two-way communication among its multiple internal and external stakeholders. In doing so, it strives to raise the Group's profile and enhance its image. Communication and Brand is the pivot which imparts the Group identity to Group companies and businesses through multiple communication strategies, leveraging the Aditya Birla brand equity.<br/><br/>The function is responsible for media relations across the entire Group. It assists the top management's interface with the outside public, comprising besides media, professional bodies and institutions who have the potential to impact the Group's image.<br/><br/>It provides Group companies and corporate functions with strategic advice and professional inputs in their communication processes. Alongside, its portfolio of services includes internal communications, digital & social media, websites, corporate intranet, corporate branding, image measurement, publications, creative arts, supporting investor relations and building up the Group's archives.</p><div class="text-base text-grey dark:text-white font-[500]">Headed by Mr. Sandeep Gurumurthi</div></div></div></div><div class="border-b border-grey/20 dark:border-white/20 last:border-none"><div class="flex justify-between py-3 text-lg font-[500] text-maroon dark:text-white cursor-pointer "><div>Group Human Resources</div><div class="h-[25px] px-2 border border-maroon dark:border-white text-maroon dark:text-white flex items-center"><span class="Accordion_icon__ktirT">v</span></div></div><div class="relative overflow-hidden transition-height duration-150 " style="height:0px"><div class="mb-10"><p class="text-base text-grey/70 dark:text-white/70 mb-5">"The role of Group Human Resources (Group HR) is focused on creating stakeholder value through superior organisational and people capability, in line with the strategic direction of the Group. While preparing the Group for future growth and globalisation through appropriate people processes and initiatives, Group HR is also the key process owner of Aditya Birla Group employer brand, induction and development of senior talent in the Group, articulation and guidance of its people vision, the organisation culture and Group values.<br/><br/>Group HR provides specialist services to the businesses in the areas of staffing, learning, leadership development, rewards and benefits, job analysis and evaluation, performance management, organisational development, human resource management systems, etc. Group HR also monitors and takes proactive steps to promote employee engagement through embedding world-class people processes and a value-based work culture. It partners with businesses and other functions to realise the Group People Vision, which is to build Aditya Birla Group as an exciting world of global opportunities for professional growth with human care."<br/><br/></p><div class="text-base text-grey dark:text-white font-[500]">Headed by Mr. Ashok Ramchandran</div></div></div></div><div class="border-b border-grey/20 dark:border-white/20 last:border-none"><div class="flex justify-between py-3 text-lg font-[500] text-maroon dark:text-white cursor-pointer "><div>Group Information Technology</div><div class="h-[25px] px-2 border border-maroon dark:border-white text-maroon dark:text-white flex items-center"><span class="Accordion_icon__ktirT">v</span></div></div><div class="relative overflow-hidden transition-height duration-150 " style="height:0px"><div class="mb-10"><p class="text-base text-grey/70 dark:text-white/70 mb-5">"Group Information Technology (Group IT) works closely with Businesses, Corporate Functions, and partners, to provide strategic direction and thought leadership to the Group's IT initiatives. The function is responsible for thought and action leadership and driving group synergies and value through power of technology.<br/><br/>Group IT has deep roots in each of our Businesses and enables them to drive business value through world-class technology. IT has underpinned our Group's business growth trajectory and continues to embed innovation and transformation agenda into the new world of Business Platforms and Digital Business Ecosystem.<br/><br/>Group IT is leading the digital journey in the Group by creating Business and Technology platforms in key areas of Customer Experience, Employee Experience, Logistics, Procurement, Energy Management, etc. The function promotes new ways of digital through Cloud, Low Code/No code and APIs driven architecture. It is focused passionately on creating business value and that’s a true north for each of its project and activities.<br/><br/>Group IT also drives the information security and data protection programme and works to strengthen the security posture of the Group.<br/><br/>In addition, the Group IT function is instrumental in developing strategic relationships with the IT industry, professional bodies, and business organisations, and also supports outside-in innovation through an Accelerator that encourages startups to work with Aditya Birla Group in the areas of technology."<br/><br/></p><div class="text-base text-grey dark:text-white font-[500]">Headed by Mr. Manish Gupta</div></div></div></div><div class="border-b border-grey/20 dark:border-white/20 last:border-none"><div class="flex justify-between py-3 text-lg font-[500] text-maroon dark:text-white cursor-pointer "><div>Group Sustainability Cell</div><div class="h-[25px] px-2 border border-maroon dark:border-white text-maroon dark:text-white flex items-center"><span class="Accordion_icon__ktirT">v</span></div></div><div class="relative overflow-hidden transition-height duration-150 " style="height:0px"><div class="mb-10"><p class="text-base text-grey/70 dark:text-white/70 mb-5">"Since our Chairman, Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla, called on Aditya Birla Group to become the leading Indian conglomerate for sustainable business practices across its global operations in December 2021, the Group Sustainability Cell (GSC), has been serving as the nodal resource on “sustainability” for all Group businesses. GSC is driven by a mission to guide, support and provide thought leadership to all Group businesses in equipping them with robust tools; put framework (of policies, standards & guidance notes), systems and processes in place; provide access to information and develop strategies to help achieve the vision.<br/><br/>Environmental (E), Social issues (S) and Governance (G) is the new currency with which a company’s ability to sustain itself is being transacted. Thus, as we enter this ‘UN decade of action’, GSC has embarked on “Accelerating ESGbility, towards strengthening Sustainability” as part of the Group’s “ability to sustain Approach 2.0”. Through – 4 Dimensions (4D) lens of the (i) business sector of operation; (ii) geography of operation; (iii) position in the value chain to get holistic perspective; and (iv) time horizon/ maturity of practices in a business, GSC has identified 16 Material Areas. This forms the common minimum Group level ESG agenda mapped against stakeholder expectations and understanding of the mega trends to prioritise and set long term commitments.<br/><br/>The mandate of the Group Sustainability Cell is to facilitate Aditya Birla Group businesses deliver on the committed ESG targets through monitored action plans; explore and leverage advanced technology whether it is developed by large existing tech players or start-ups; take stewardship positions in the kind of products and services we make and deliver through circularity; extend the circle of ESG by bringing in suppliers, customers and consumers, and most importantly, collaborate with all stakeholders for shared prosperity and growth, throughout Aditya Birla Group."<br/><br/></p><div class="text-base text-grey dark:text-white font-[500]">Headed by Ms. Deeksha Vats</div></div></div></div><div class="border-b border-grey/20 dark:border-white/20 last:border-none"><div class="flex justify-between py-3 text-lg font-[500] text-maroon dark:text-white cursor-pointer "><div>Group Investor Relations</div><div class="h-[25px] px-2 border border-maroon dark:border-white text-maroon dark:text-white flex items-center"><span class="Accordion_icon__ktirT">v</span></div></div><div class="relative overflow-hidden transition-height duration-150 " style="height:0px"><div class="mb-10"><p class="text-base text-grey/70 dark:text-white/70 mb-5">The Group Investor Relations and Capital Markets Strategy team serves as the cornerstone of Aditya Birla Group’s robust investor relations ecosystem, ensuring transparent and effective communication between our organisation and the global investment ecosystem. As stewards of financial transparency, they cultivate relationships with shareholders, analysts, and other stakeholders, providing accurate and timely information about our financial performance, strategic initiatives, and market dynamics.<br/><br/>The team plays a pivotal role in articulating our corporate strategy, financial policies, and governance practices to foster investor confidence and support sustainable long-term growth. Moreover, they orchestrate our presence in both domestic and international financial markets, facilitating the efficient raising of capital and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.<br/><br/></p><div class="text-base text-grey dark:text-white font-[500]">Headed by Mrs. Pooja Kapur</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="relative addToNav" data-nav-title="Women Leadership"><div class="w-full h-full top-0 bg-gradient-to-r from-maroon dark:from-black from-50% to-red dark:to-black/90"><div class="container mx-auto px-5 py-20 bg-white dark:bg-black/90 lg:dark:bg-black/0 lg:bg-white/0"><div class="flex flex-col lg:flex-row items-start gap-5 pb-10"><div class="md:min-w-[350px]" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-duration="300"><div class="text-4xl font-[400] text-maroon lg:text-white dark:text-white">Women Leadership</div></div><div class="w-full"><div class="lg:max-w-[800px] md:ml-auto" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-duration="300"><p class="text-base leading-normal text-black lg:text-white dark:text-white">Meet our women leaders who, as trailblazers, are pioneering a new era of visionary leadership and redefining boundaries with inspirational impact.</p></div></div></div><div class="grid grid-cols-1 sm:grid-cols-2 md:grid-cols-3 lg:grid-cols-4 gap-5 xl:gap-10"><div class="flex flex-col justify-between sm:shadow-xl border bg-white dark:bg-black border-grey/10 dark:border-grey" data-aos="flip-left" data-aos-duration="300"><div class="text-center sm:text-left"><img alt="Ms. Vishakha Mulye" loading="lazy" width="220" height="260" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="pt-5 sm:pt-0 dark:grayscale sm:border-r-8 mx-auto sm:mx-0 border-maroon dark:border-white" style="color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 220 260'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur 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py-5"><div class="text-lg text-center sm:text-left text-maroon dark:text-white leading-tight mb-2">Ms. Vishakha Mulye</div><div class="text-base text-center sm:text-left text-grey dark:text-white/70 font-[400] leading-tight mb-2">Chief Executive Officer, Aditya Birla Capital Limited (ABCL)</div></div></div></div><div class="flex flex-col justify-between sm:shadow-xl border bg-white dark:bg-black border-grey/10 dark:border-grey" data-aos="flip-left" data-aos-duration="300"><div class="text-center sm:text-left"><img alt="Dr. Ila Patnaik" loading="lazy" width="220" height="260" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="pt-5 sm:pt-0 dark:grayscale sm:border-r-8 mx-auto sm:mx-0 border-maroon dark:border-white" style="color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 220 260'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' 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Its mission is to shape the archives to be the central repository of all important organisational records / material / memorabilia that help depict the history and heritage of the Group.\nIn the process it endeavours to create an archival treasure trove and bring under one single roof the records of its companies’ plants / different locations.\nFrom the archival treasure trove, legacy documentation is the forward step. Legacy documentation entails recording in print the Group's storied history and heritage, based on this authoritative repository. And on this foundation, pen books that celebrate the Group/Group Companies through its history, its narratives, and the way it has contributed to the social, economic, and moral fabric of our nation and beyond, spanning 40 countries across the globe.","dept_head":"Dr. Pragnya Ram","sequence":4,"createdAt":"2023-12-05T00:51:09.693Z","updatedAt":"2024-06-28T07:12:11.000Z","locale":"en"},{"id":113,"title":"Corporate Affairs and Development Cell","description":"\"Corporate Affairs and Development Cell is Aditya Birla Group's hub for all corporate affairs activities. It acts as a catalyst towards the Group's relationship with key functionaries in policy and bureaucracy, both at the centre as well as the states.\nThe function provides support and value-added services to all the Group Companies on intrinsic and extrinsic matters, particularly with regard to central and the state governments, legislators, administrators, diplomatic community, trade chambers, and various interest groups.\nIt works as a sounding board for in-time dissemination of information to the internal stakeholders across geographies with regard to the changes that are likely to take place, and also acts in an advisory capacity with regard to various steps to be taken to protect, promote and accomplish the Group's business development interests.\nThe Corporate Affairs and Development Function also plays a key role in strategic matters while recommending actions that are based upon Indian and global business relevance to the units and businesses in line with the Group's values, goals and objectives, with an aim to creating kinship with a conducive public policy environment.\"\n","dept_head":"Mr. Sunil Bajaj \u0026 Mr. Amit Bajaj","sequence":5,"createdAt":"2023-12-05T00:55:49.132Z","updatedAt":"2024-03-13T05:21:59.355Z","locale":"en"},{"id":121,"title":"Corporate Economics Cell","description":"\" Corporate Economics Cell (CEC) is a research-based advisor for Aditya Birla Group. CEC deciphers the business environment by continuously tracking, assessing, analysing and forecasting global and domestic economic trends and policies. It provides analytical inputs and economic information to different decision-makers in the Group at the corporate as well as business level. It also provides inputs on risk management relating to economic variables such as currency and commodity prices.\nCEC has an important role in policy advocacy in interactions with the government, industry associations and regulators. In recent years, CEC has helped strengthen initiatives in diverse areas like sustainability and competition law.\nCEC's research supports businesses in various areas, including market risk management, forecasts of key economic variables, consumer research, country macro risk assessment, sectoral trends, and trade policies. CEC engages with policy makers, chambers of commerce, and other agencies on matters of economic importance. It develops and maintains relevant economic databases and disseminates economic knowledge through various reports and interactive fora.\"\n","dept_head":"Dr. Ila Patnaik ","sequence":6,"createdAt":"2023-12-05T00:59:18.720Z","updatedAt":"2024-03-13T05:26:42.856Z","locale":"en"},{"id":129,"title":"Corporate Finance Group","description":"\"Corporate Finance Group (CFG) triggers and supports growth for existing businesses through both organic initiatives (capital allocation) and through mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures and identifies new business opportunities for the Group. It also monitors value-based management through the planning and budgeting process, and performance measurement of Group businesses.\nCFG works with companies to raise long-term debt and equity capital in domestic as well as international markets and also supports the listed companies in Group-level investor relations activities.\"\n","dept_head":"Mr. Sandeep Agarwal","sequence":7,"createdAt":"2023-12-05T01:02:53.615Z","updatedAt":"2024-03-13T05:20:53.174Z","locale":"en"},{"id":137,"title":"Corporate Innovation","description":"\"Corporate Innovation cell harnesses the power of innovation to build internal capabilities across businesses, craft solutions to meet business needs, identify future business prospects, and create more stakeholder value. It builds the Group’s innovation capability through developing a culture of learning in the organisation.\nCorporate Innovation drives a collaborative approach between various corporate functions to promote innovation, by employing their inter-disciplinary skills.\"\n","dept_head":"Mr. Shrijeet Mishra","sequence":8,"createdAt":"2023-12-05T01:05:46.077Z","updatedAt":"2024-03-13T05:22:14.700Z","locale":"en"},{"id":145,"title":"Group Legal \u0026 Compliance","description":"\"Group Legal \u0026 Compliance is the apex legal team for the whole Aditya Birla Group. Established in 1998, it has, over the years, transformed itself into an integral part of the business process by providing timely and quality legal services on a wide range of strategic and transaction-related issues in a cost-efficient manner.\nIt has an impressive track record of having handled complex acquisitions, corporate re-structuring and varied arbitration / litigation. It has also formed Group policies / guidelines on key issues, such as intellectual property rights, competition laws and corporate governance.\nGroup Legal \u0026 Compliance works in close coordination with other corporate functions to provide integrated business solutions, keeping in view the applicable legal environment. It has acquired the competence to provide legal assistance and advice in different jurisdictions. It plays a significant role in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures (both domestic and cross border), and corporate re-structuring.\nMoreover, Group Legal \u0026 Compliance works as a business partner for all our businesses and functions, and will shoulder responsibility for meeting business and functional targets by proactively anticipating issues that might come in the way of implementing business strategy.\"\n","dept_head":"Mr. Deepak Acharya","sequence":9,"createdAt":"2023-12-05T01:08:46.708Z","updatedAt":"2024-03-13T05:20:30.236Z","locale":"en"},{"id":153,"title":"Corporate Management Audit ","description":"\"Corporate Management Audit is committed towards system perfection across Aditya Birla Group in India and overseas. It functions by continuous evolution, implementation and review of controls and best practices.\nIt maintains corporate governance and mitigation of risks across the Group through robust, zero-tolerant internal control systems, cost reduction methods, adherence to Group policies and values, effective MIS, adequacy of risk mitigation plan and statutory compliance.\nThe function regularly shares information, best practices among the units and helps the Group to keep pace with the fast-changing business scenario and enables value addition to the stakeholders.\"\n","dept_head":"Mr. Duli Kabra \u0026 Mr. Sudhir Dalvi","sequence":10,"createdAt":"2023-12-05T01:12:40.157Z","updatedAt":"2024-03-13T05:21:09.891Z","locale":"en"},{"id":161,"title":"Corporate Strategy and Business Development","description":"\"Corporate Strategy and Business Development continuously tracks the business environment for Aditya Birla Group's existing businesses. It recommends new directions through evaluation of deal creation opportunities, analysis of project proposals, etc. The function also plans and develops strategic initiatives for the Group and facilitates its execution.\nAdditionally, it assists businesses in crafting their strategic direction and evaluates options for long-term growth, both organic and inorganic. It works towards identifying sources of competitive advantage for the businesses, viz., exploration of new markets and geographies, analysis of integration across the industry's value chain, etc.\nFor new businesses, the function primarily focuses on opportunities, which take cues from the concept of megatrends, adjacencies and synergies to the Group's existing businesses.\"\n","dept_head":"Mr. Rajeev Sonthalia","sequence":11,"createdAt":"2023-12-05T01:17:11.116Z","updatedAt":"2024-03-13T05:21:28.193Z","locale":"en"},{"id":169,"title":"Group Data and Analytics","description":"\"Given the fast-paced technological advancement and the ever-intensifying competitive landscape, an increasing number of organisations are beginning to realise the potential of big data and analytics in driving improved business outcomes. The power of big data is derived from the underlying rich and valuable insights about individuals, institutions, and processes that empower and enable businesses to serve their customers and improve business operations through data-driven decision making thereby driving competitive advantage.\nTo tap into this tremendous business opportunity, Group Data and Analytics function has been created at the Group’s centre to work closely with the Businesses on strategising and delivering on its business priorities through leveraging the power of data and analytics. The function will build strong analytics and domain expertise drawn from the best-in-class talent from leading global and Indian Businesses and India’s premier educational institutions, coupled with cutting edge tools and technologies built on a highly scalable and robust big data infrastructure to mine petabytes of structured and unstructured data in seconds.\nThe analytics team of Data scientists and Big data engineers will combine their strong expertise and business knowledge with the power of predictive analytics, sophisticated machine learning algorithms and advanced quantitative techniques to provide our Group Companies with high-end applied Analytics solutions across B2B and B2C businesses and functions.\"\n","dept_head":"Mr. Pankaj Rai","sequence":12,"createdAt":"2023-12-05T01:20:35.008Z","updatedAt":"2024-03-13T05:16:48.812Z","locale":"en"},{"id":177,"title":"Group Communication and Brand","description":"Communication and Brand is a service-oriented support function which enhances the Aditya Birla brand credibility, every which way. The function works to strengthen the Group's competitive advantage through proactive, two-way communication among its multiple internal and external stakeholders. In doing so, it strives to raise the Group's profile and enhance its image. Communication and Brand is the pivot which imparts the Group identity to Group companies and businesses through multiple communication strategies, leveraging the Aditya Birla brand equity.\nThe function is responsible for media relations across the entire Group. It assists the top management's interface with the outside public, comprising besides media, professional bodies and institutions who have the potential to impact the Group's image.\nIt provides Group companies and corporate functions with strategic advice and professional inputs in their communication processes. Alongside, its portfolio of services includes internal communications, digital \u0026 social media, websites, corporate intranet, corporate branding, image measurement, publications, creative arts, supporting investor relations and building up the Group's archives.","dept_head":"Mr. Sandeep Gurumurthi","sequence":13,"createdAt":"2023-12-05T01:23:26.907Z","updatedAt":"2024-06-28T07:18:47.680Z","locale":"en"},{"id":185,"title":"Group Human Resources","description":"\"The role of Group Human Resources (Group HR) is focused on creating stakeholder value through superior organisational and people capability, in line with the strategic direction of the Group. While preparing the Group for future growth and globalisation through appropriate people processes and initiatives, Group HR is also the key process owner of Aditya Birla Group employer brand, induction and development of senior talent in the Group, articulation and guidance of its people vision, the organisation culture and Group values.\nGroup HR provides specialist services to the businesses in the areas of staffing, learning, leadership development, rewards and benefits, job analysis and evaluation, performance management, organisational development, human resource management systems, etc. Group HR also monitors and takes proactive steps to promote employee engagement through embedding world-class people processes and a value-based work culture. It partners with businesses and other functions to realise the Group People Vision, which is to build Aditya Birla Group as an exciting world of global opportunities for professional growth with human care.\"\n","dept_head":"Mr. Ashok Ramchandran","sequence":14,"createdAt":"2023-12-05T01:28:44.320Z","updatedAt":"2024-03-13T05:21:41.891Z","locale":"en"},{"id":193,"title":"Group Information Technology","description":"\"Group Information Technology (Group IT) works closely with Businesses, Corporate Functions, and partners, to provide strategic direction and thought leadership to the Group's IT initiatives. The function is responsible for thought and action leadership and driving group synergies and value through power of technology.\nGroup IT has deep roots in each of our Businesses and enables them to drive business value through world-class technology. IT has underpinned our Group's business growth trajectory and continues to embed innovation and transformation agenda into the new world of Business Platforms and Digital Business Ecosystem.\nGroup IT is leading the digital journey in the Group by creating Business and Technology platforms in key areas of Customer Experience, Employee Experience, Logistics, Procurement, Energy Management, etc. The function promotes new ways of digital through Cloud, Low Code/No code and APIs driven architecture. It is focused passionately on creating business value and that’s a true north for each of its project and activities.\nGroup IT also drives the information security and data protection programme and works to strengthen the security posture of the Group.\nIn addition, the Group IT function is instrumental in developing strategic relationships with the IT industry, professional bodies, and business organisations, and also supports outside-in innovation through an Accelerator that encourages startups to work with Aditya Birla Group in the areas of technology.\"\n","dept_head":"Mr. Manish Gupta","sequence":15,"createdAt":"2023-12-05T01:33:16.293Z","updatedAt":"2024-03-13T05:19:57.628Z","locale":"en"},{"id":201,"title":"Group Sustainability Cell","description":"\"Since our Chairman, Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla, called on Aditya Birla Group to become the leading Indian conglomerate for sustainable business practices across its global operations in December 2021, the Group Sustainability Cell (GSC), has been serving as the nodal resource on “sustainability” for all Group businesses. GSC is driven by a mission to guide, support and provide thought leadership to all Group businesses in equipping them with robust tools; put framework (of policies, standards \u0026 guidance notes), systems and processes in place; provide access to information and develop strategies to help achieve the vision.\nEnvironmental (E), Social issues (S) and Governance (G) is the new currency with which a company’s ability to sustain itself is being transacted. Thus, as we enter this ‘UN decade of action’, GSC has embarked on “Accelerating ESGbility, towards strengthening Sustainability” as part of the Group’s “ability to sustain Approach 2.0”. Through – 4 Dimensions (4D) lens of the (i) business sector of operation; (ii) geography of operation; (iii) position in the value chain to get holistic perspective; and (iv) time horizon/ maturity of practices in a business, GSC has identified 16 Material Areas. This forms the common minimum Group level ESG agenda mapped against stakeholder expectations and understanding of the mega trends to prioritise and set long term commitments.\nThe mandate of the Group Sustainability Cell is to facilitate Aditya Birla Group businesses deliver on the committed ESG targets through monitored action plans; explore and leverage advanced technology whether it is developed by large existing tech players or start-ups; take stewardship positions in the kind of products and services we make and deliver through circularity; extend the circle of ESG by bringing in suppliers, customers and consumers, and most importantly, collaborate with all stakeholders for shared prosperity and growth, throughout Aditya Birla Group.\"\n","dept_head":"Ms. Deeksha Vats","sequence":16,"createdAt":"2023-12-05T01:36:25.700Z","updatedAt":"2024-03-13T05:19:10.573Z","locale":"en"},{"id":209,"title":"Group Investor Relations","description":"The Group Investor Relations and Capital Markets Strategy team serves as the cornerstone of Aditya Birla Group’s robust investor relations ecosystem, ensuring transparent and effective communication between our organisation and the global investment ecosystem. As stewards of financial transparency, they cultivate relationships with shareholders, analysts, and other stakeholders, providing accurate and timely information about our financial performance, strategic initiatives, and market dynamics.\nThe team plays a pivotal role in articulating our corporate strategy, financial policies, and governance practices to foster investor confidence and support sustainable long-term growth. Moreover, they orchestrate our presence in both domestic and international financial markets, facilitating the efficient raising of capital and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.\n","dept_head":"Mrs. Pooja Kapur","sequence":17,"createdAt":"2024-06-28T07:22:06.712Z","updatedAt":"2024-10-04T12:40:16.048Z","locale":"en"}],"reflections":[{"id":5,"createdAt":"2024-01-30T06:33:59.735Z","updatedAt":"2024-01-30T06:33:59.735Z","year":"2023","url":"/media/stories/2023-24-my-reflections/","file":null},{"id":1,"createdAt":"2024-01-27T13:36:31.396Z","updatedAt":"2024-01-30T06:36:27.956Z","year":"2022","url":"/media/stories/2022-23-my-reflections/","file":null},{"id":2,"createdAt":"2024-01-29T08:33:25.799Z","updatedAt":"2024-01-29T08:42:21.654Z","year":"2021","url":"/media/stories/2021-22-my-reflections/","file":null},{"id":3,"createdAt":"2024-01-29T08:34:47.056Z","updatedAt":"2024-01-29T08:42:16.812Z","year":"2020","url":"/media/stories/2020-21-my-reflections/","file":null},{"id":4,"createdAt":"2024-01-29T08:35:07.022Z","updatedAt":"2024-01-29T08:42:11.273Z","year":"2019","url":"/media/stories/2020-my-reflections-my-learnings/","file":null}],"meta":{"title":"Leadership Team and Board of Directors - Aditya Birla Group","description":"Aditya Birla Group's leadership team is the secret behind it delivering exceptional value to customers, shareholders, and stakeholders.","image":null}},"__N_SSG":true},"page":"/our-story/leadership","query":{},"buildId":"cQuXGtkKz1rISzrKuDL_e","isFallback":false,"isExperimentalCompile":false,"dynamicIds":[68043,42379,78432,29800],"gsp":true,"locale":"en","locales":["en","ar","zh","fr","de","pt","es","th"],"defaultLocale":"en","scriptLoader":[]}</script><div id="modal-root"></div></body></html>