Nitin Paranjpe led his entire professional life with a very simple motto: to be focused on the job at hand and do that well. While the maxim may sound too content to today’s agile and ambitious lot of corporate professionals, Paranjpe has undoubtedly managed to do wonders with his humble prophecy.
The man, known to the Indian corporate world for steering pass the country’s largest fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) company Hindustan Unilever (HUL) through the tough times of global economic crisis, will now lead HUL’s parent Unilever’s foods business. A Mumbaikar by origin, Paranjpe, 55, will take over as the head