Keki Dadiseth

A Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales, Keki Dadiseth joined Hindustan Lever Limited in India in 1973 as Manager in the Audit Department. His tenure in the company included a three-year secondment to Unilever plc in London (1984-87), where he held senior financial and commercial positions. On his return to India in 1987, Keki joined the Board of Hindustan Lever and, until he became Chairman in 1996, headed several businesses (Detergents and Personal Products) and functions (Personnel and Acquisitions & Mergers activities) for the Group in India.

Mr. Keki was appointed Director on the Board of Unilever plc and Unilever NV in May 2000 and a Member of the Executive Committee. On January 1, 2001, he took over as Director, Home and Personal Care, responsible for the HPC business of Unilever worldwide. He retired from Unilever in May 2005. He was also a Non-Executive Director of Prudential plc from 2005-2013, and Chairman and Senior Advisor to Sony India Ltd for four years till early 2013. He retired as a Member of the International Advisory Board of Goldman Sachs in October 2012 after serving for six years. He also served on the Boards of ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, ICICI Prudential Asset Management Trust till April 2016, Siemens Ltd till January 2020, and Indian Hotels Co. Ltd. and PIEM Hotels Ltd. till April 2017. He was also a Trustee of the Sir Ratan Tata Trust till April 2017. He was also on the India Advisory Boards of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd, World Gold Council and India Infoline.

In India, Keki is closely associated with various industry, educational, management and medical bodies. He is a Member of the Managing Committee, Breach Candy Hospital Trust. He is on the Boards of Britannia Industries Ltd, Godrej Properties Limited and JM Financial Limited. He is a Member of the Executive Board of the Indian School of Business. He is also Chairman/Member of Audit/Remuneration/ Corporate Governance committees in most of these companies.

Keki is the Non-Executive Chairman of Omnicom India Marketing Advisory Services Pvt Ltd, and Chairman of the Convening Board of Marsh & McLennan Companies, India.