Mrs Sonal Shrivastava

Head of Strategy and Chief Supply Chain Officer

Sonal Shrivastava is the Head of Strategy and Chief Supply Chain Officer.

Sonal joined ACC from Hindustan Zinc Limited where she was the Deputy Chief Financial Officer. She has over 21 years of professional experience in Finance & Control, Purchase, Legal, Audit & Compliance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategy & Business Development, Shared Services and IT spread across companies like Zenith Chemicals Pvt Ltd, Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS) Ltd, Suzlon Energy Ltd – India, Duet India Infrastructure Pvt Ltd, and Lafarge India Pvt Ltd, where she handled Indian and international assignments.

Sonal has a MBA degree in Finance from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, University of Mumbai and Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering from Birsa Institute of Technology, Sindri.

Mr Ashish Prasad

Chief Marketing Officer

Ashish Prasad is the Chief Marketing Officer and Head of New Products & Services at ACC. He leads marketing and branding of ACC cement and concrete. He is responsible for expanding our existing offerings and developing & launching new products besides designing and implementing new services to augment our market offerings which will to strengthen ACC’s presence as a complete solution provider in the building material industry.

Ashish joined ACC from Pidilite Industries Limited where he was the Chief Operating Officer responsible for developing and marketing construction chemicals. He has 21 years of leadership experience in sales, brand management, skills development, operations and strategy spread across companies like Asian Paints, Coca Cola, Aditya Birla Retail and IIJT.

He is a science graduate from Delhi University and is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad.

Mr Harish Badami

CEO & MD (Chairman of Executive Committee)

Harish Badami is the Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director (CEO&MD) of the Company. Mr Badami is a B.Tech from IIT Bombay and an MBA from IIM Calcutta. He has over twenty-five years experience in the Chemical Industry with leading multinational companies viz. ICI, Rohm and Haas India, Dow Chemical India and Celanese Chemicals India Private Limited.

Harish Badami was the Managing Director of Celanese Chemicals India Private Limited prior to his joining ACC and President & Managing Director of Dow Chemical India during 2009-2011. In these roles, he was responsible for developing integrated strategies for the local subsidiaries including implementation of robust business plans, building organizational capability and manufacturing footprint.

Harish was conferred the Distinguished Alumnus Award by IIT Bombay, his alma mater. He is a Member of the Stakeholders’ Relationship Committee, CSR Committee, Risk Management Committee, Capex Committee and Compliance Committee of the Board. As CEO&MD of ACC, Harish Badami is in overall control and responsible for the day-to-day working of the Company.

Mr Sunil K Nayak

Chief Financial Officer

Sunil Nayak is Chief Financial Officer at ACC. He is responsible for finance function, which includes Corporate Finance & Treasury, Business Controlling, Tax, Investor Relations and Business Risk Management. He also oversees Legal, Secretarial and Compliance functions. He has over 36 years experience in both, strategic and operational aspects of management.

Prior to joining ACC, Sunil worked with the Clariant Group, a Swiss speciality chemicals company, for 15 years in various capacities, including general management. He has also worked in leadership positions with Smithkline Beecham Pharmaceuticals and Abbott & Corn Products.

Sunil is (1) A Fellow of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India; (2) An Associate of The Institute of Cost Accountants of India; (3) A Fellow of The Institute of Company Secretaries of India and (4) Law Graduate. He attended a Global Advanced Management Program from ISB/Kellogg, Chicago, USA and also Turnaround Management from Harvard Business School.

In 2013, Sunil was awarded 'The Best CFO in India' by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Sunil is a member of the CII National Committee for CFOs since 2017.

Mr Philip Mathew

Chief Manufacturing Officer

Philip Mathew is the Chief Manufacturing Officer at ACC, with more than 30 years of rich and diverse experience in the cement industry in India and overseas.

A Chemical Engineer from IIT Madras, he began his career with ACC where he worked for ten years in its Jamul and Gagal cement plants and later in the Process Division of the erstwhile Research & Consultancy Division at Thane. He left ACC to join Lafarge SA where he spent the next 20 years in overseas assignments in countries such as France, India, Philippines and China in a variety of roles including leading technical centres, country industrial teams and cement plants. His last position was as Director – Performance and Progress based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where he oversaw the performance of the group’s cement plants in Asia.

Mr Behram Sherdiwala

Chief People Officer

Behram Sherdiwala heads the Human Resources function at ACC as its Chief People Officer, overseeing the HR matters of Cement and Concrete Business.

He joined ACC in 1984, working initially in the HR functions of the company’s diversified businesses of Refractories, Tyre Machinery, Heavy Engineering, Castings, Agro-business, Overseas Projects, Research and Consultancy. He then moved to the corporate HR function, acquiring deep understanding about all aspects of people-related matters in the company’s cement operations including HR processes and systems, talent management, industrial relations, working with management teams, employees and communities. His hands-on approach to employee engagement has helped in securing the support of employees and unions in all of the company’s recent change and transformation initiatives as well as being instrumental in ACC being ranked consecutively as "The Best Employer To Work For" in the cement sector.

Mr Neeraj Akhoury

Managing Director & CEO

Neeraj Akhoury is the Managing Director and CEO of ACC Limited.

Mr. Akhoury brings with him over 25 years of rich experience in the steel and cement industries. He has worked in leadership roles in India and other emerging markets. He began his career with Tata Steel in 1993 and joined the LafargeHolcim Group in 1999. He was a member of the Executive Committee of Lafarge India, heading Corporate Affairs followed by Sales. In 2011, he moved to Nigeria as CEO & Managing Director of Lafarge AshakaCem PLC. Thereafter, he was appointed as Strategy & Business Development Director for Middle East & Africa at the Lafarge headquarters in Paris. He was also CEO of Lafarge Surma Cement Limited and Country representative of LafargeHolcim Bangladesh.

Mr. Akhoury has a degree in Economics and MBA from the University of Liverpool. He has also studied 1-year General Management at XLRI, Jamshedpur. He is an alumnus of Harvard Business School (GMP).

Mr Procyon Mukherjee

Chief Procurement Officer

Mr Procyon Mukherjee graduated with an Engineering Degree from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Further, he completed his PG Diploma in SQC, Statistics, and a one year management program from IIM Kolkata. In April 2017, he joined LafargeHolcim as Chief Procurement Officer from Hindalco Industries, where he was President - Central Logistics.

He started his career at Philips India, before moving to erstwhile Indal and subsequently held senior management roles in Hindalco, including a stint with Novelis in Zurich. He has 29 years of rich experience in various leadership roles, including Manufacturing, Strategy, Merger and Acquisition, Effective turnaround, Supply Chain, Procurement and Operations across India and Europe. Skilled in managing Indian and international cross-functional teams, analysing complex situations with a bias toward action that is based on values and strategies, oriented towards formulating team structures leading to result achievement and leading innovative processes to drive excellence in business.

Mr Sridhar Balakrishnan

Chief Commercial Officer

B Sridhar is the Chief Commercial Officer at ACC. He leads commercial strategy and execution, is responsible for trade and non-trade sales, ensuring an optimum and profitable product portfolio and building the right sales organisation to deliver business goals.

He joined ACC from Star India where he was the President & Head – Distribution, accountable for driving and maximising revenue as well at its modernisation strategy. Sridhar has spent the majority of his 27-year career in the FMCG industry spending over two decades at Marico Ltd. in different roles - from handling sales, business finance and supply chain for India to managing P&L across geographies. In his last stint as the Chief Operating Officer at Marico, Sridhar was responsible for business in South Asia, Middle East and Africa.

Sridhar is an engineering graduate with a B. Tech (Electronics) degree from the Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi and has a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur.