Sanjay Khosla

Prof. Sanjay Khosla

Sanjay Khosla is a senior fellow at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and a senior advisor at Boston Consulting Group.

Khosla was president, developing markets of Kraft Foods (now Mondelez International) from Jan 2007 to March 2013.[citation needed] During his tenure Kraft Foods employed 65,000 employees in over 60 countries[citation needed] and operated brands like Cadbury, Oreo, Milka, Trident.[citation needed] During his tenure, Khosla:[1]

  • Grew the business from $5 billion to $16 billion in six years while improving profitability and cash flow[2]
  • Transformed brands like Oreo from $200 million to a $1 billion and Tang from $500 million to $1 billion in six years in developing markets[3]
  • Helped spearhead and successfully integrate the acquisition of Cadbury (bought for $20 billion) and Danone biscuits (bought for $7.8 billion)[4]

Prior to joining Kraft Foods, Khosla turned around the $3 billion consumer business of Fonterra, a global dairy company based in New Zealand.[citation needed] Prior to his tenure at Fonterra, Khosla had 27-year tenure with Unilever based in the UK, Europe and India.[5] Khosla implemented a programme "paint the World Yellow with Lipton" as chairman of the Global Category Board for Unilever Beverages.[citation needed] Khosla also created the Wheel detergents business in India.[citation needed]

Khosla is on the board of Zoetis Inc (previously Pfizer animal health), NIIT Ltd, India, and Iconix Brand Group.[citation needed] Khosla was previously on the Board of Best Buy Inc, Del Monte Foods, and Hindustan Unilever; co-chair of the Nestle/Fonterra joint venture for the Americas; and on the board of the Lipton/Pepsi joint venture.[citation needed]

Khosla has lectured at universities in the U.S. and in forums such as the Economist conference in London and Davos.[citation needed]

Khosla co-authored a book, Fewer, Bigger, Bolder, with Mohanbir Sawhney. The book discusses Focus7 which is a "proven framework for achieving sustained profitable growth."[6]

References

  1. ^ "The Khosla Rules".
  2. ^ "Kellogg Appoints International Business Expert Sanjay Khosla as Senior Fellow - Kellogg School of Management".
  3. ^ "Former Kraft Exec Shares 7 Steps for Achieving Massive, Meaningful Growth". Business Insider.
  4. ^ "Business News Today: Read Latest Business news, India Business News Live, Share Market & Economy News". Archived from the original on July 26, 2014.
  5. ^ "Mondelez exec to get 'atypical' retirement package".
  6. ^ "Sanjay Khosla". BigSpeak Motivational Speakers Bureau: Keynote Speakers, Business Speakers and Celebrity Speakers. Retrieved 2023-11-03.