Sanjay Behl

Sanjay Behl is the CEO of Raymond in his last assignment during 2013 to 2020 – responsible for leading India’s fully integrated Textile and Apparel conglomerate (Lifestyle). He successfully led the transformation of a legacy iconic textile manufacturing behemoth in India fast losing relevance – to becoming a leading & profitable fashion retail company over the last 7 years. He was featured in Business World ‘Most Valuable CEOs in India 2019’.

Prior to Raymond, he had an 8 Year of engagement with Reliance Group in diverse functional, Strategic and Business Leadership roles – ranging from providing a unique corporate identity to the new Reliance Group (ADAG), to leading a unified brand core across diverse industries (telecom, financial services, media, infra etc.) to launch & commercial scale-up of satellite television business for the group and managing customer operations for wireless telecom & broadband business of the group.

He spent 2 years at Nokia (2004-05) as Head of Brand, Product, Marketing and retail operations for Nokia Mobile Phones.

From 1993, he served at Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) for over 10-years in Sales, Brand and Marketing assignments in India, Asia-Pacific and Global markets.

Currently, he is Chairman of CII HR & Leadership National Council.