ITC Limited :: Leadership

S Sivakumar is the Divisional Chief Executive of the Agri Business Division. He is also the Chairman of Technico Agri Sciences Limited and Vice Chairman of ITC Infotech India Limited and its subsidiaries in the UK and USA.

Sivakumar is a Director on the Board of Indo-US Knowledge Initiative in Agriculture. He is a Member of the Private Sector Committee of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), and a Member of Research Advisory Committee of India's National Academy of Agricultural Research Management (NAARM). He is also an active member of the management committees of various industry bodies and several taskforces of Government of India.

Rajnikant Rai is Chief Operating Officer, Agri Business Division. Prior to this, he was Executive Vice President, Operations. He was also the national head of the path breaking e-Choupal project. Rai is a graduate in Economics and holds a PG Diploma in International Business Management. He worked in a Government organization in Madhya Pradesh and then with Britannia before joining ITC in 1990. He is Executive Committee Member on several industry bodies and commodity exchanges.

Kuryan G Stephanos is Vice President, Finance of the Agri Business Division. He joined the Company in July 1988 after completing Chartered Accountancy. After a brief stint in the Internal Audit Department, he was assigned various responsibilities in the Finance Function of the Tobacco Division covering Factory and Marketing operations, Costing systems, Indirect Taxes, Financial Accounting and Management Information Systems. In 2007, as Project Leader, he was instrumental in the successful implementation of SAP upgrade across Tobacco, Foods and the Matches and Agarbatti SBUs before moving to head the Finance and IT functions of Agri Business Division - ILTD. In September 2012, he took over as the head of Finance of Agri Business Division.

L Prabhakar is Vice President, Human Resources, Agri-Business Division. An alumnus of NIT, Surathkal and XLRI, Jamshedpur, he has been with ITC for over 18 years. He was also associated with TVS Motors for 3 years and Murugappa Group for 4 years.

During his tenure with ITC, he has worked in Leaf Tobacco Division, Tobacco Division and the Information Technology business. Before moving to his current role, he worked as Manager – Corporate Human Resources at Kolkata for 3 years.

In his 25 years of experience, he has handled a wide range of responsibilities including Industrial Relations, Recruitment, Compensation & Benefits, Performance Management, Learning & Development, Social Initiatives and Business Planning.

He is actively associated with National HRD Network and is on the Board of the National Committee for the last 6 years. He is currently the Regional President - South of NHRD.

DVR Rajiv Mohan is Vice President - Commodities, Agri Business Division. A graduate in Commerce and an MBA from Karnatak University, he joined the company in 1988, in the Leaf Tobacco business (ABD - ILTD), wherein he was involved in various facets of Operations, Exports and Supply Chain. After a successful stint in various operations, he took over as General Manager - Exports in 2002, and was instrumental in significantly enhancing the global presence of ABD - ILTD through an aggressive market expansion and customer acquisition strategy. This led to a significant increase in export turnover and a footprint in all continents covering major international customers. From 2004 to 2011, he was also instrumental in developing the Spices Business with a specific focus on evolving a customized supply chain and differentiated products and services, resulting in rapid scale up of the business in domestic and export markets.He was also vested with the responsibility of building the Supply Chain vertical for the Leaf Tobacco business.