CEO Spotlight: A Mahendran, MD, GCPL, the 24X7 businessman

Nachiket Kelkar
moneycontrol.com

They are the people in the driver's seat at India Inc, steering the company on the growth path, motivating staff, managing shareholder expectations and playing brand ambassador. But have you wondered what is it that drives these high achievers and where are they coming from? Moneycontrol.com helps you get to know some of the chief executives better, through our weekly feature CEO Spotlight, where we get the top bosses to speak about their careers, likes, regrets, vision and aspirations. This week we turn the spotlight on A. Mahendran, managing director of Godrej Consumer Products. Starting as a chartered accountant before moving to Godrej, Mahendran has now spent over two decades driving growth in various FMCG businesses of the Godrej Group. In this interaction with moneycontrol.com, Mahendran talks on a wide range of issues from his love for far eastern countries, passion to be a venture capitalist to expanding education to the rural and underprivileged, his idea of social entrepreneurship.  If not a career in the FMCG industry, Mahendran would have loved to work as a Chartered Accountant. Read on more about Mahendran