Mr. K. C. Jhanwar

Managing Director,

UltraTech Cement Limited.

 

Mr. K. C. Jhanwar, managing director of UltraTech Cement Limited, is a veteran of the Aditya Birla Group with a career spanning more than 38 years in the Group. A chartered accountant by profession, Mr Jhanwar joined the Cement business of Aditya Birla Group as a management trainee in 1981.

Within the Group, he has worked across finance, operations and general management roles in the cement and chemical sectors, and has expertise in project management and commercial skills. He also has significant experience in acquisitions and integration. He has been exceptional in his networking and relationship building skills with customers and other stakeholders and has built a strong franchise for the business. He has been a capable team builder and has strong people skills.

Mr. E. R. Raj Narayanan

Business Head and Chief Manufacturing Officer

 

Mr. Raj Narayanan is the Business Head and Chief Manufacturing Officer of UltraTech Cement Limited. Before joining UltraTech, he was Group Executive President for Chlor Alkali and the VFY segments of Grasim Industries. During his other stints within the group, he held positions as CEO of insulators & fertilizers and Senior President of Overseas chemical businesses. 

Prior to joining Aditya Birla Group in 2008, Mr. Raj Narayanan worked in leading companies in the chemicals and industrial products space. He served as MD of Linde Gases India Limited, MD of Lanxess India Private Limited, and Country Head of Bayer Chemicals in India.

He was the recipient of Aditya Birla Group Chairman’s outstanding leader award in 2018. He is a chemical engineer by qualification.

Mr Vivek Agrawal

Wholetime Director and Chief Marketing Officer

Mr. Vivek Agrawal is Wholetime Director and Chief Marketing Officer at UltraTech Cement. Mr. Agrawal has spent a major part of his professional career at UltraTech’s Cement Business, holding a number of critical positions. He joined the Group in 1993 as a Zonal Manager in the Cement Marketing Division and went on to hold important positions such as Zonal Head – Grey Cement South; Head, Marketing – Birla White; and Head – RMC Business.

Mr. Agrawal took over as the CEO of the acquired entity Star Cement in 2010 and in October 2013, took on the role of Chief Marketing Officer of the Cement Business. Mr. Agrawal was named an Aditya Birla Fellow in 2017, and was a recipient of the Chairman’s Outstanding Leader Award in 2019. He is a B.E.(Hons.) from NIT Allahabad and MBA from FMS, Delhi. He has done his Advanced Management Program (AMP) from Wharton Business School

Mr. Atul Daga

Business Head, Executive Director & CFO

 

An Aditya Birla Group veteran for 33 years, Mr. Atul Daga, is a chartered accountant by profession. He has served as the CFO in multiple businesses within the group. His experience is broad based in sectors such as cement, retail, aluminum, carbon black, textiles, tyre cord & fibre.

Mr. Atul Daga was instrumental in restructuring of the Group's overseas businesses. As Principal Executive Assistant to Mr. Aditya Vikram Birla and Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla, he imbibed the vision to take Indian business beyond its geographical boundaries while retaining the humane values and principles espoused by our founder.

Mr. Atul Daga has gained experience in different roles like Financial Planning, Treasury Management, Business Strategy, Merger & Acquisition, and Investor Relations. He has been ranked amongst the top three CFOs in the Building Materials Segment in Asia by the Institutional Investor magazine. Some of his key achievements include acquisitions for over US$4 billion in the cement industry in India as well as divestment of non-core assets outside India. He has also been instrumental in setting up a state-of-the-art 700-member Shared Services Centre for the accounting function of UltraTech.

Mr. Chandrashekhar Chavan

Chief Human Resources Officer, UltraTech Cement Limited

Mr. Chavan joined the Aditya Birla Group in 1996, and during his tenure of over 28 years, his career trajectory has included multiple roles across diverse businesses and portfolios. These included roles in diverse portfolios of Group HR such as Young Talent Management, Learning & Talent Staffing. He was appointed Head HR for Aluminium Sales & Marketing, Hindalco, where he led the integration of sales and sales accounting teams of Hindalco and Indal. Subsequently, he moved as Head-HR for Birla Sunlife AMC, where he led multiple changes in talent and organisation. Later on, he joined as Head-HR, UltraTech Cement Marketing.

Post his stint at UltraTech, Mr. Chavan was appointed the CHRO for Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd (ABFRL). During his tenure with ABFRL, he crafted and deftly delivered on the people agenda in the context of rapid business growth of existing brands and integration of newly acquired brands. He actively guided the build-up of high-quality talent across the business and built a strong HR team in close partnership with different business leaders. He took on the mantle of CHRO, UltraTech Cement Limited in 2024.

Mr. Chavan has a Master’s in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. He is also the recipient of the prestigious Aditya Birla Group Chairman’s Accomplished Leader Award 2016.

Mr. Ashish Dwivedi

CEO – Birla White

Mr. Ashish Dwivedi is the CEO of Birla White, the white cement business of UltraTech Cement Limited. He is a chemical engineer and an MBA. He has been with the Aditya Birla Group for over 23 years. He has been an integral part of several strategic initiatives including mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and building up of Group processes.

Prior to his current role, he was President of Speciality Chemicals and Business Strategy for Chemical, Fertilizer and Insulator sector of the Group. He built the downstream speciality chemicals business across multiple products and was responsible for upstream salt business.

Mr. Anoop Khatry

Chief Legal Officer

Mr. Anoop Khatry joined UltraTech as Chief Legal Officer in 2023. Before joining UltraTech he was the Group General Counsel at Suzlon Energy Limited. In his role as the Chief Legal Officer, Mr. Khatry is responsible for overseeing the legal function and strategic transactions. 

With more than 22 years of experience, Mr. Khatry is a well-known and a respected lawyer. He is adept at handling legal and regulatory aspects of the cement industry, power and energy, aviation, telecom, telecom infrastructure, and the real estate sector. He specialises in multi-jurisdictional transactions, mergers and acquisitions, banking & finance, capital markets, project finance, corporate advisory, litigation, and corporate compliance.

A law graduate from the University of Delhi, he started his career in 2002 as a litigation counsel in Delhi High Court. Over the years he has worked with organisations such as Suzlon Energy Limited ,InterGlobe Aviation Limited (IndiGo Airlines), Emaar MGF, Bharti Airtel Limited (mobility services) and the Essar Group (with its telecom infrastructure service provisioning company).