American FMCG main Procter & Gamble Firm has named India-born Shailesh Jejurikar as its subsequent Chief Government Officer, who will lead the patron items multinational from January 1, 2026.
Jejurikar (58), who joined Procter & Gamble (P&G) as an assistant model supervisor in 1989, will substitute Jon Moeller as a part of a high management transition, based on an announcement from the Cincinnati, Ohio-based firm.
He’s serving as Chief Working Officer of P&G for over final six years and can also be a board member of vertical transportation techniques maker Otis Elevator Co.
“Shailesh Jejurikar…will succeed Jon Moeller as Procter & Gamble’s President and Chief Government Officer, efficient January 1, 2026. The Board has additionally nominated Jejurikar to face for election as a Director on the annual shareholder assembly in October 2025,” an announcement from P&G mentioned.
He helped construct a number of of P&G’s core companies, together with world Material Care and House Care in areas together with North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America. He has additionally helped lead the event of the corporate’s renewed methods and operational leads to the Provide Chain, Data Expertise and World Enterprise Companies.
P&G is a number one FMCG firm in India market additionally, working with manufacturers together with, Ariel, Tide, Whisper, Olay, Gillette, Ambipur, Pampers, Pantene, Oral-B, Head & Shoulders and Vicks.
Jejurikar, an alumnus of IIM Lucknow, is the most recent to affix an elite league of India-born C-suite executives at world giants.
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Earlier this month, Moradabad-born Sabih Khan was elevated to the place of chief working officer of iPhone maker Apple.
Khan, who will nonetheless have Apple CEO Tim Cook dinner as his chief, will take over his new function from Jeff Williams later this month, rising by the ranks after being at Apple for 30 years and becoming a member of the chief staff as senior vp of operations in 2019.
Satya Nadella is the Chairman and CEO of Microsoft, whereas Sundar Pichai is the CEO of each Google and its holding firm Alphabet. Shantanu Narayen, Chair and Chief Government Officer of Adobe, one of many largest software program corporations on the earth and Arvind Krishna, Chairman, President and CEO of IBM, are amongst these lively pole bearers.
Becoming a member of them are Vasant Narasimhan, the CEO of world pharma main Novartis, and Reshma Kewalramani, CEO and President of world biotech main Vertex.
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Equally, Sanjay Mehrotra, Chairman, President and CEO at Micron Expertise; Anirudh Devgan, President and CEO of Cadence, and Leena Nair, World CEO of Chanel, are among the many different important lively members.
Sanjiv Kataria, the ex-CEO of Bata, held the excellence of being the primary Indian world CEO of the footwear main. He resigned from the submit final month.
Likewise, Laxman Narasimhan, who parted methods with Starbucks final yr after serving as its CEO, had additionally led one other multinational big Reckitt Benckiser as CEO.
Indra Nooyi who stepped down as CEO of meals and drinks main PepsiCo in 2018 after main the corporate for 12 years and serving it in numerous roles for twenty-four years and Harish Manwani who turned the primary Chief Working Officer of FMCG main Unilever in 2011, paved the way in which for India-born executives to go world corporations.