Sanjay Khosla is a senior fellow,

Kellogg School of Management The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University (also known as Kellogg) is the business school of Northwestern University, a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1908, Kellogg is one of the oldest and most p ...

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, USA and a senior advisor and

Boston Consulting Group Boston Consulting Group, Inc. (BCG) is an American global management consulting firm founded in 1963 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. It is one of the Big Three (or MBB, the world’s three largest management consulting firms by rev ...

. Khosla was president, developing markets of

Kraft Foods The second incarnation of Kraft Foods is an American food manufacturing and processing conglomerate, split from Kraft Foods Inc. in 2012 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. It became part of Kraft Heinz in 2015. A merger with Heinz, arra ...

(now

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) from Jan 2007 to March 2013, responsible for 65,000 people in over 60 countries and brands like

Cadbury Cadbury, formerly Cadbury's and Cadbury Schweppes, is a British multinational confectionery company fully owned by Mondelez International (originally Kraft Foods) since 2010. It is the second largest confectionery brand in the world after Mar ...

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. During his tenure, Khosla: * Transformed the business from $5 billion to $16 billion in six years (doubled the business organically) while dramatically improving profitability and cash flow * Transformed brands like Oreo from $200 million to a $1 Billion and Tang from $500 million to $1 Billion in six years in developing markets * Helped spearhead and successfully integrate the acquisition of Cadbury (bought for $20 Billion) and Danone biscuits (bought for $7.8 Billion) Before joining Kraft Foods, Khosla turned around the $3 billion consumer business of

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, a global dairy company based in New Zealand. Prior to his tenure at Fonterra, Khosla enjoyed a successful 27-year career with

Unilever Unilever plc is a British multinational consumer goods company with headquarters in London, England. Unilever products include food, condiments, bottled water, baby food, soft drink, ice cream, instant coffee, cleaning agents, energy drink, t ...

based in the UK, Europe and India. Khosla implemented a bold programme (Paint the World Yellow with Lipton) as chairman of the Global Category Board for Unilever Beverages. Khosla also created the

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detergents business in India, which is one of Unilever's largest brands in India. Khosla is on the board of

Zoetis Zoetis Inc. (/zō-EH-tis/) is an American drug company, the world's largest producer of medicine and vaccinations for pets and livestock. The company was a subsidiary of Pfizer, the world's largest drug maker, but with Pfizer's spinoff of its ...

Inc (previously Pfizer animal health),

NIIT NIIT Limited ''(National Institute of Information Technology)'' is an Indian multinational skills and talent development corporation headquartered in Gurgaon, India. The company was set up in 1981 to help the nascent IT industry overcome ...

Ltd, India, and

Iconix Brand Group Iconix Brand Group is an American brand management company that licenses brands to retailers and manufacturers primarily in the apparel, footwear, and apparel accessory industries. Its brands are available in such stores as Kohl's, Kmart, Sear ...

. Khosla was previously on the Board of

Best Buy Best Buy Co. Inc. is an American multinational consumer electronics retailer headquartered in Richfield, Minnesota. Originally founded by Richard M. Schulze and James Wheeler in 1966 as an audio specialty store called Sound of Music, it was rebra ...

Inc,

Del Monte Foods Del Monte Foods, Inc (trading as Del Monte Foods) is an American food production and distribution company headquartered in Walnut Creek, California. Del Monte Foods is one of the country's largest producers, distributors and marketer of bran ...

, and

Hindustan Unilever Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) is a consumer goods company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is a subsidiary of Unilever, a British company. Its products include foods, beverages, cleaning agents, personal care products, water purifi ...

; co-chair of the Nestle/

joint venture for the Americas; and on the board of the

Lipton Lipton is a British brand of tea, owned by Ekaterra. Lipton was also a supermarket chain in the United Kingdom, later sold to Argyll Foods, after which the company sold only tea. The company is named after its founder, Sir Thomas Lipton, who fo ...

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joint venture. Khosla has lectured extensively at universities in the U.S. and in forums such as the Economist conference in London and Davos. Khosla co-authored a book, ''Fewer, Bigger, Bolder'', with

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. The book discusses Focus7, a "proven framework for achieving sustained profitable growth."

References

External links

Sanjay Khosla website

New senior fellow: Kellogg appoints international business expert Sanjay Khosla as senior fellow

Sanjay Khosla to Retire After Leading Developing Markets to New Heights
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