Payal Bhuptani

Payal Bhuptani is an experienced marketing professional currently serving as the Marketing Director for Foods at Unilever since May 2011, focusing on brands such as Lipton Iced Tea and the Pepsi Lipton Joint Venture. Prior roles at Unilever include Marketing Manager for Knorr Savory Foods India and Brooke Bond Taj Mahal Tea, as well as Senior Brand Manager for Kwality Wall's. Bhuptani started a career at National Instruments in various sales and business development roles, where significant achievements included leading teams in India’s services business and attaining the highest individual annual sales in 2009. Bhuptani holds a PGPM in Business Administration from the Indian School of Business and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Visvesvaraya Technological University.