Mr Suresh Rathi

Chief Supply Chain Officer

Mr Suresh Rathi is the Chief Supply Chain Officer at ACC. He has more than 30 years of rich and diverse experience in Supply Chain, Finance, Projects and IT.

A Mechanical Engineer with an MBA in Finance, he has worked with some of the leading conglomerates such as Larsen & Toubro, Aditya Birla and Vedanta. Suresh joins us from Dalmia Bharat Ltd where he was working as Executive Director-Supply Chain Management, for their Cement & Building Solutions business.

Mr Pralhad Mujumdar

Chief Executive Officer

Pralhad Mujumdar is the Chief Executive Officer-ACC Concrete & B2B Business, with more than 35 years of rich and diverse experience in the fields of Structural Design, Manufacturing, Sales and Marketing, Consultancy, Project Management, Construction, Ready Mixed Concrete and New Product Development.

A Civil Engineering graduate from Karnataka University, India, he began his career with Mahimtura Consultants Pvt Ltd, Mumbai in 1984 as a structural design engineer and also worked with Development Consultants Pvt Ltd from 1986-87. He joined ACC in 1987 as a Project Manager and became RMX Regional Head-East in 2006. He served as Vice President-Product Innovation & development from 2009 to 2013 and became Director-Institutional, Commercial & Infra Business in 2013.

Mr Kiran Patil

Chief Manufacturing Officer

Kiran Patil is Chief Manufacturing Officer at ACC. He has over three decades of rich and diversified experience in the cement industry across India, Philippines and Vietnam, including a variety of leadership roles in the manufacturing function including operations, maintenance and projects.

Kiran joins us from UltraTech Cement, where he was Chief Operating Officer and Cluster Head (North). Starting his career at Rajshree Cement, Kiran has also worked in organizations such as Tata Steel and Lafarge.

Kiran is a Mechanical Engineer and holds an MBA in Finance.

Mr Bhogendra Mishra

Head of Human Resources

Bhogendra Mishra is Head of Human Resources function at ACC, overseeing the HR matters of Cement and Concrete Business, in addition to his current role as Head of Human Resources, Asia.

Bhogendra is a Post Graduate in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from XISS, Ranchi. He possesses over 32 years of rich experience in Human Resources across a range of industries in India and abroad. He joined LafargeHolcim as Head of Human Resources, India in 2015 and is a member of the India Leadership Team of LafargeHolcim. Bhogendra started his career in Human Resources with Tata Steel in 1986 and worked across global organizations of repute such as Whirlpool, Philips and ArcelorMittal in roles of increasing seniority.

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.

Mrs. Rajani Kesari

Chief Financial Officer

Rajani Kesari is the Chief Financial Officer of ACC and member of its Executive Committee. She has close to three decades of experience in driving disciplined performance management, business partnering and leading multicultural teams.

Rajani was earlier Region Finance Head – Asia for LafargeHolcim managing Finance for India, South East Asia & Pacific. Her experience lies across industries and business models from Energy Management, Consulting and Pharmaceuticals to Building Materials with extensive experience in M&A, internal audit and controls and global tax leading multicultural teams. She has worked in several leadership roles spanning country, regional and global scope including India, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore and Dubai.

Rajani has held leadership roles in finance at Schneider Electric and Dr. Reddy’s. She has also worked in KPMG handling both manufacturing and banking clients. She has done her accounting training with PWC in India.

Rajani is a Chartered Accountant, Cost Accountant and a Certified Public Accountant from USA.

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

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. He 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.

Mr Sridhar Balakrishnan

Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer

Sridhar Balakrishnan is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of ACC Limited.

Mr Balakrishnan has spent the majority of his career in the FMCG industry in different roles handling sales, business finance and supply chain for India to managing P&L across international geographies.

In his earlier role with the company as the Chief Commercial Officer, his years of rich experience in consumer business benefited ACC as the Company is transforming from a cement manufacturing business to a total building materials company with innovative technology based products and solutions. Mr Balakrishnan's extensive leadership experience and expertise across markets make him a strong asset to the future growth strategy of the Company.

Mr Balakrishnan is an Engineering graduate with 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.

Mr Rajiv Choubey

Chief Legal Officer and Company Secretary

Rajiv Choubey is Chief Legal Officer and Company Secretary at ACC, with more than two decades of rich and diverse experience as an in-house Legal Counsel in the fields of Corporate Laws, Mergers & Acquisitions, Securities Laws, Corporate Governance, Commercial Laws, Joint Ventures, Environmental laws, Industrial & Labour Laws and Indirect Taxes. As Director-Legal, he has been the Head of Legal Services of the Company since July 2018, prior to which he worked with HCL Infosystems Limited (HCLI) as the General Counsel. Mr Choubey began his career in 1997 and worked with various companies , viz., Delton Cables Ltd., UP Export Corporation Limited, Sterlite Industries, Maruti Suzuki & Vedanta Group across various businesses (MALCO, Copper, Aluminium & Power business) in various roles including Head Legal & Company Secretary of Sterlite Industries (India) Limited and later Vedanta Limited.

Mr Choubey is a Law Graduate from University of Delhi and an Associate Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India.  He has also completed his LLM from Kurukshetra University and is a diploma holder in International Trade & Business Laws from the Indian Society of International Law, New Delhi as well as in Corporate Laws & Management from Indian Law Institute (ILI), New Delhi.

His contributions in the legal field have been recognized by various bodies/forums, such as the Indian National Bar Association (INBA), Indian Corporate Counsel Association (ICCA), Corporate Counsel Association of India (CCAI), IOD etc.

Mr Deepak Mehra

Chief Commercial Officer

Deepak Mehra is the Chief Commercial Officer at ACC, effective May 1, 2020. He leads commercial strategy and execution and is responsible for Sales and Technical Services functions of ACC and for building the right sales organisation to deliver business goals.

Deepak Mehra is a cement industry veteran with over three decades of experience in the sales and marketing function. He has a strong track record of executing business turnaround and successfully implementing sales & marketing strategies, delivering high impact business results. Deepak started his career with Ambuja Cements Limited and worked for close to three decades with the organization before moving to J. K. Cement Limited as President Marketing. Deepak rejoined Ambuja Cements as Chief Marketing Officer in January 2018.

Mr Rajeev Mehta

Chief Logistics Officer

Rajeev Mehta is the Chief Logistics Officer at ACC Limited, effective May 3, 2020. He leads Logistics (Outbound) in the Company.

Rajeev, a chartered accountant, is a cement industry veteran with close to three decades of rich experience in Business Strategy, Building Logistics Infrastructure, Supply Chain Transformation and Cost Optimization journeys in Building Materials and Petrochemicals space. He has worked with UltraTech Cement Limited for close to two decades and at Reliance Industries Limited, where he was leading the Logistics for the Petrochemicals business. He joined Ambuja Cements as Chief Logistics Officer in February 2018. As Chairman of Rail Coordination Committee of CMA, he has actively contributed in several policy decisions for the cement industry.

Mr Manoj Chhura

Chief Procurement Officer

Manoj Chhura is Chief Procurement Officer – India and a member of the Executive Committee of ACC Limited.

Manoj has over 25 years of experience working with IBM, Lenovo, Apple and Flex across geographies such as India, China and other emerging and developed markets. He brings with him his expertise in procurement, sourcing, integrated supply chain operations, establishing green field entities, global business services, acquisition and post-merger integration. He works closely with internal and external stakeholders to strengthen the cost culture and develop best-in-class procurement methodologies to drive significant structural cost improvement and support growth. Further, he completed his graduation in mechanical engineering and Executive Education from Harvard Business School.

Mr Yatin Malhotra

Chief Financial Officer

Yatin Malhotra has been appointed as CFO – ACC effective September 1, 2020. Yatin is a qualified CA, CS and CWA. He is a seasoned financial professional having more than 20 years of experience. Prior to taking this role in ACC, he was the Vice President & CFO of Whirlpool of India Ltd. Prior to Whirlpool, Yatin was also associated with LG Electronics, Samtel Colour Limited, Apollo Tyres Group & Escorts Group.

Yatin has extensive experience in operating and strategic finance. In his earlier roles, he has handled assignments like M&A projects, margin expansion, working capital optimization, prioritizing investments, enhancing cash flows & investor relations. He has led the Internal Audit team and has done considerable work on strengthening controls and governance across organizations. He has partnered in cross functional projects across business verticals like GST, GTM strategy formation, supply chain efficiencies, digital transformation, capacity expansions etc.