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Overview
Vindi Banga has a wealth of professional experience in Chair, CEO and Board roles in the B2C and B2B – in FMCG, ESG, retail, manufacturing, services in public markets and private equity, government, and not-forprofit sectors. He has many years of commercial and international experience, and a track record of delivering outstanding performance in highly competitive global consumer-focused businesses.
Vindi is Chair of UKGI (UK Government Investments), the governance and corporate finance arm of the UK Government. He is the Senior Independent Non-Executive Director of GSK spin-off Haleon plc, and a Non-Executive Director of the Economist Group. A Partner at Clayton Dubilier & Rice LLC, the global private-equity firm, he is also on the Board of their company Morrisons, and on the Board of Kedaara Capital Advisors LLP, their private-equity partner in India. He is an International Advisory Board member of Hakluyt & Co.
Prior to this, Vindi spent 30 years with Unilever plc and became President Global Foods, Home and Personal Care, and a member of the Unilever Executive Board. While at Unilever, Vindi led ESG, and currently leads this at his private-equity firm, Clayton Dubilier & Rice LLC. He has been Senior Independent Director of GSK plc and M&S plc and was on the Board of Thompson Reuters and Maruti (Suzuki).
Vindi is also Chair of the palliative-care charity Marie Curie. He is on the Governing Board of the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, and the Global Leadership Council of the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and was on the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM).
Vindi is a Director of the Board of the International Chamber of Commerce (UK). He has been a Non-Executive Director of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). He was a member of the UK India CEO Forum and the Prime Minister of India’s Council of Trade & Industry from 2004 to 2014.
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UK Government Investments
Chair
Haleon plc
Senior Independent Non-Executive Director
Unilever plc
President and ExCo member
Clayton
Partner
GSK plc
Senior Independent Director
Marks & Spencer plc
Senior Independent Director
Marie Curie
Chair
Other Career Highlights
Exco Diversey
Chair
Mauser Holding GmbH
Chair
Kalle GmbH
Chair
Thomson Reuters Ltd
Non-Executive Director
B&M Retail plc
Director
HRB Brands LLC
Director
Maruti Suzuki India Ltd
Independent Director
Prime Minister’s Council on Trade & Industry
Member
Confederation of British Industry
Non-Executive Director
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Trustee
Saïd Business School
Council member
Morrisons
Director
The Economist
Non-Executive Director