D. Sundaram
Board of Director
GlaxoSmithKline
Glaxo Smith Kline
India
Biography
Mr. Sundaram joined the Unilever group in India as a Management Trainee in 1975. Since then, he was steadily promoted, with increasingly senior roles within the Unilever group in the Accounting, Commercial and Treasury functions. He was the Finance officer at Unilever (London) for Africa and Middle East Region, Finance Director and Board Member of Brooke Bond Lipton India (at Bangalore) and Senior Vice-President (Finance), South Asia and Middle East Group based at Unilever, London. Mr. Sundaram was appointed as Finance Director and Board Member of Hindustan Lever Limited (now HUL) and was subsequently elevated as Vice-Chairman and CFO. He was also responsible for finance functions of Unilever companies in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He left HUL voluntarily in July 2009 after 34 years of service. Mr. Sundaram was awarded CFO of the year for the FMCG sector twice by CNBC TV 18 in 2006 and 2009.
Research Interest
Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics
