Mr. Ajit Krishnakumar

Mr. Ajit Krishnakumar is Executive Director & Chief Operating Officer of Tata Consumer Products, which he joined in 2020. He was subsequently appointed to the Board of Directors of the Company in 2023.

Mr. Krishnakumar joined the Tata Group in 2013 where he worked in the Group Chairman’s Office with strategy, corporate finance and M&A responsibilities for the consumer and other business verticals. He served as Tata Group nominee on the Boards of Directors of select affiliates as well as on various strategy, investment and similar committees.

In 2019, he led the Group’s effort to consolidate its multiple consumer packaged goods businesses into a single platform, now labelled Tata Consumer Products.

At Tata Consumer Products, he oversees Business Integration & Transformation, Integrated India Operations (includes planning, procurement, manufacturing, logistics and quality) as well as the B2B Businesses, among other corporate responsibilities.

Before he joined the Tata Group, Mr. Krishnakumar was an investment banker and advisor with ~15 years of experience supporting large, medium and small companies think through and execute their strategic, financial and M&A choices. He has worked across a variety of industries, including consumer, education, transportation, media and telecom, and in several countries, including India, the UK, USA and Japan, working with Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Rothschild, among others. He holds an MBA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a BBA from the University of Hartford, Connecticut.