43 Srinivas Phatak

Title: CFO Company: Unilever Industry: Consumer Goods

Srinivas joined Unilever in 1999 after cutting his teeth at India’ s ITC. Before rising to the top of the conglomerate’ s finance function, he was CFO of Hindustan Unilever during a stretch that doubled its market value. After that resounding success, he was appointed the firm’ s Deputy CFO and Controller, though he was asked to be the interim finance chief when Fernando Fernandez rose to CEO. He won the job permanently in September 2025. financechief. com 47