Ram S Ramasundar
Corporate Advisor & Mentor
Former CFO – Hindustan Unilever
Partner – Alexander Hughes
Ramsundar, former CFO of Hindustan Unilever, is Partner at Alexander Hughes. He is a Finance & Governance Professional. He has over 4 decades of experience in organizations such as HUL (as CFO), PepsiCo India (as Director – Operations), Electrolux (as MD/CEO), Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited (as President & CFO) , DLF Hotels (as Senior Executive Director) and Jindal ITF Limited (as Group Director – Finance & Strategy), Blue River Capital (as MD), Unilever Exports (UK) and PepsiCo (USA & Greece).
After his super-annuation from Jindal ITF Limited, he has been associated with Blue River Capital (a Mauritius registered Private Equity Firm) as Managing Director for the last four years and involved in managing the operations of the portfolio companies and administration of the private equity fund. Prior to this, he has also worked at Unilever Exports (UK) and PepsiCo ((USA and Greece).
In terms of his academic background, he is a commerce graduate (Madras University), Chartered Accountant, Company Secretary and a Management Graduate ( Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad), having qualified with distinction and merit rank.
He has interests in Music, Sports and Books and has written articles and commentaries. His wife, Geetha is a post graduate and currently a home maker. He has one daughter, Sadhana, who graduated in Economics from Grinnell College, IOWA, USA and is currently working with KFC (Yum! Group) in Dallas, USA.