Vishal Rao

Vishal Rao is President of Industrials at Mativ. He previously served as Vice President and General Manager of Neenah, Inc.’s, Industrial Solutions division beginning in 2020, after serving in commercial leadership roles since joining the organization in 2017.

Prior to joining Neenah, Inc., Vishal held multiple General Management and Strategy roles at Novelis and its subsidiaries, including Vice President of Asian Specialties Business based in South Korea, Managing Director of Alcom based in Malaysia and Director of Corporate Strategy based in Switzerland and U.S. Preceding Novelis, Vishal worked in various strategy and finance roles at McKinsey and Company, World Bank and KPMG.

Vishal received both his BComm and MComm degrees from the University of Mumbai and qualified as a Chartered Accountant from India in 2001. Vishal also attended the Harvard Business School, where he received an MBA in General Management in 2006.