Matches & Agarbatti Strategic Business Unit
V M Rajasekharan - SBU Chief Executive
V M Rajasekharan is the Chief Executive of the Matches & Agarbatti Strategic Business Unit. He joined ITC's Packaging and Printing Division in 1986. Before joining ITC, he worked with M. M. Rubber's BOPP division from 1980 to 1986 after graduating in Chemical Engineering from Annamalai University.
He has held various responsibilities in operations, domestic sales, planning and technology development in the Packaging and Printing Division. He was on the management committee of that Division before taking over as the Chief Executive of the Agarbattis business at its inception. He additionally took over as the Chief Executive of the Safety Matches SBU in December 2010.
S K Sipani - Member
Surendra Kumar Sipani is the Head of Finance for the Matches & Agarbatti Strategic Business Unit and also holds responsibility as Head-Finance & Company Secretary of WIMCO Limited, a subsidiary of ITC Limited. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Company Secretary.
Sipani joined ITC in 1997 in the Tobacco Division and has held responsibilities in various areas of Finance and Commercial functions. He was Assistant Manager, Finance, at Munger and Bangalore factories and was at Head Office as Assistant Manager - Indirect Taxes and Commercial Manager handling Capex and Insurance. He was also Commercial Manager at Kidderpore factory.
Thomas Mathew - Member
Thomas Mathew is the Head of HR for Education & Stationery Products and Matches & Agarbatti Businesses. Mathew completed his Masters in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai in 2000 and joined ITC in 2001.
During his tenure in ITC, he has anchored a variety of roles & responsibilities including Industrial Relations, Human Resource Management, Learning & Development & Organization Integration projects.
In 2010, he moved out of Tobacco Division to anchor the role of Manager, HR for all the Chennai based businesses. He is in the current assignment since July 2011.
Soundar Rajan - Member
A Soundara Rajan is the Head of Operations, Matches & Agarbatti SBU since July 2011. He is a post graduate in management and has a decade of experience in marketing at Ranbaxy. Soundara Rajan joined ITC in 1996 as Regional Manager (Marketing) in the Paperboards and Specialty Papers Division (PSPD) at Chennai and later took over as Head (Marketing) for the acquired Kovai unit in 2004. He was the Project Manager for SAP between 2007 and 2009 and became DGM (International Sales) in September 2010 before taking over as the Head of Operations at Matches and Agarbattis SBU. At present, his key focus areas are Capacity Planning & Strategic Sourcing, Vendor Development, Supply Chain Networks, Sustainability and People Development.
V S Thyagarajan - Marketing Manager
V S Thyagarajan is the Marketing Manager, Matches & Agarbatti Strategic Business Unit. He joined ITC in 1988. In his long stint in the Trade Marketing and Distribution function of the Company, he has had extensive experience of markets across the country. He has held various key positions like that of Trade Marketing Information Manager and Branch Manager, Hyderabad before taking over as the Marketing Manager.
