Godrej Industries ropes in Vishal Sharma as CEO- Designate

28 Feb 2023 , 11:02 AM

Godrej Industries Limited informed that it has appointed Vishal Sharma as the Chief Executive Officer- Designate (CEO-Designate) of GIL–Chemicals Business effective from March 1, 2023.

As per the company’s release, Nitin Nabar, Executive Director and President (Chemicals), Godrej Industries Limited, will be the reporting authority for Vishal.

Vishal Sharma comes to Godrej from Ecolab Inc., where he was Senior Vice President of the India, Middle East, and Africa (IMEA) region, based in Dubai since June 2020. Vishal led Ecolab’s strategy and operations in IMEA and was responsible for the region’s record sales and profit growth.

He was instrumental in assembling a world-class team that is expected to lead the IMEA region to its USD 1 billion revenue target in the coming years.

Vishal previously led Ecolab’s Asia Pacific Industrial business and was based in Singapore. He joined Ecolab in 2013 after 12 years at Diversey, Inc., where he began as the National Sales Manager in India and rose through the ranks to become Global Vice President – Hospitality, Healthcare, Commercial Laundry, and Food Safety, based in Amsterdam.

Over the last 27 years, he has lived and worked on five continents, in both developed and developing markets, in operational and strategic roles.

Vishal holds a post-graduate diploma in Management from IMDR Pune, as well as a Bachelor of Engineering from MIT Manipal in Mangalore.

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