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| Mr. Brahm Vasudeva (April 26, 1936 - July 10, 2020) |
 In 1984, twenty-five years after founding the Company, Mr. H. D. Vasudeva stepped down and handed over management to his son Mr. Brahm Vasudeva. Mr. Brahm Vasudeva joined the Company in 1968 as Vice-Chairman and Managing Director and became the Chairman and Managing Director, designated as CEO in 1984. After 38 years of distinguished service to Hawkins, Mr. Brahm Vasudeva retired as Chairman and CEO on April 25, 2006, the day before his seventieth birthday. With effect from April 26, 2006, Mr. Vasudeva became the Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors and an Advisor to the Company. The Company immensely benefitted from his expertise in the pressure cooker and cookware industry and his long experience and expertise in the field of management, marketing and advertising. He was the first Chairman of the Advertising Standards Council of India and also the first Chairman of the Media Research Users Council (MRUC). Mainly because of his inspiring leadership, the Company has been in the forefront of consumer welfare and communication in the form of advertising, point of sales merchandising and packaging. During his tenure as the Chairman of the Board, the Company set up two additional plants at Hoshiarpur and Jaunpur. The Company Sales grew from Rs. 19 crores in 1984 to Rs. 674 crores in 2020 and the net profits grew from Rs.0.52 crores in 1984 to Rs. 72.49 crores in 2020 . As a testimony to his pioneering efforts and consumer focus, the Company has won numerous accolades including: 1. First National Award for Consumer Protection and Service from Associated Chamber of Commerce & Industry in 1976. 2. India Star Award for Packaging in 1981. 3. Government of India Certificate for excellence in Packaging in 1981. 4. Pegasus award for excellence in Advertising in 1982. 5. Gold Medal for Consumer Welfare in 1982. 6. India Star award for Futura Packaging in 1990. 7. India Star award for Hawkins Frying Pan Packaging in 1990. 8. India Star award for Cook-n-Serve Bowl Packaging in 1991. 9. Consumer Care award in 1993 by Consumer Complaints, New Delhi. Mr. Vasudeva believed in treating all stakeholders fairly, achieving results through the right means, seeking the best, focusing on the core business, being prudent, being bold, brave, resolute, doing the best and leaving the rest to god. |
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Directors: |
 Mr. Subhadip Dutta Choudhury is the Chairman of the Board of Directors and Managing Director designated as Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Mr. Dutta Choudhury joined the Company in 1992 as a Management Trainee and worked for 8 years as a Sales Manager in various regions with increasing levels of responsibility. He moved to Marketing as Vice President in 2000. He was elected by the Members as a Wholetime Director designated as Executive Director-Marketing in 2004, and as Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors and Managing Director designated as Chief Executive Officer with effect from April 26, 2006. He was appointed by the Board as the Chairman of the Board of Directors and Managing Director designated as Chief Executive Officer with effect from August 6, 2020. Mr. Dutta Choudhury holds a B. Tech Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. |
 Mr. Sudeep Yadav is the Vice-Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Mr. Yadav joined the Company as an Executive Director on July 22, 2013. His designation was changed by the Board to the Vice-Chairman of the Board and Chief Financial Officer with effect from August 6, 2020. Prior to joining the Company, he was with Citibank N.A. for 12 years and, before that, with ANZ Grindlays & Standard Chartered Bank for 9 years. He served as a Director on the Board of National Payments Corporation of India - a Section 25 not-for-profit company sponsored by the Reserve Bank of India - and on the Executive Committee of National Securities Depository Limited, the first and largest depository in India. Mr. Yadav holds a B. Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. |
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Mr Tej Paul Sharma is the Executive Director-Sales of the Company. Mr. Tej Paul Sharma joined Hawkins as an Accounts Executive in our Hoshiarpur factory in 1983 and moved to Sales in 1985. He took charge of All India Sales as Vice President-Sales in 2000. Since 2013, as the Executive Vice President-Sales, he looked after Exports, Distribution, Depot Administration and Mahim office. Mr. Sharma was elected by the Members as a Wholetime Director designated as the Executive Director-Sales with effect from August 1, 2021. Before joining Hawkins, he worked as a salesman in his father's business of bicycle parts. Mr. Sharma is a Bachelor of Commerce from St. Xavier's College, Calcutta. |
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Mr Neil Vasudeva is the Executive Director-Marketing of the Company. Mr. Neil Vasudeva joined Hawkins in 1997 as the Senior General Manager-South Zone Sales. After working for seven years in Sales he moved to Marketing. Since 2013, as the Executive Vice President-Marketing, he looked after Marketing, the Online Business, Consumer Service and the Test Kitchen. Mr. Vasudeva was elected by the Members as a Wholetime Director designated as the Executive Director-Marketing with effect from August 1, 2021. Before joining Hawkins, he worked for four years with Reckitt & Colman of India Limited, rising to the rank of a Product Manager. Mr. Vasudeva is a Bachelor of Arts from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, and has a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur. |
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Mrs. Susan Vasudeva joined the Board of Hawkins on August 1, 2014. Mrs. Vasudeva graduated from the University of Washington in 1970 with a degree of Bachelor of Arts for which she studied, inter alia, Anthropology, Economics and History. She is the wife of the late Chairman of the Board of Directors, Mr. Brahm Vasudeva. She has contributed significantly for many years in an honorary capacity in the development of Cookbooks and Instruction Manuals and to the testing and development of products in the Hawkins Test Kitchen. |
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Independent Directors: |
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Mr. Ravi Kant joined the Board of Hawkins in 2016. Mr. Ravi Kant has nearly 50 years of corporate experience in extractive, consumer durable and automobile industries. He spent 15 years in Tata Motors where he became the CEO and Managing Director and later Vice Chairman of the Board. He did B.Tech. Hons. at Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur, and M.Sc. in management from Aston University, Birmingham. |
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Prof. Leena Chatterjee joined the Board of Hawkins in April 2019 as an Additional Director and was appointed as an Independent Director by the Shareholders at the Annual General Meeting held on August 6, 2019. Prof. Leena Chatterjee is a PhD in Organisational Psychology from IIT, Kanpur, and an MA in Psychology from Delhi University. She has taught at IIM, Calcutta, for more than 35 years. Prof. Chatterjee is now teaching Organisational Behaviour at the BITS School of Management in Kalyan, Maharashtra, including subjects like Organisational Communication, Interpersonal Dynamics and Group Development. She has received the Best Teacher Award a number of times in her teaching career. She has been a consultant for organisations like SBI Life and Government of India - Department of Health. She has a number of research publications on various aspects of organisational culture and performance. |
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Mr. Murli Aildas Teckchandani has been appointed as an Independent Director with effect from August 1, 2021, by the Shareholders at the Annual General Meeting held on July 29, 2021. Mr. Teckchandani was the General Manager-Finance with Bright Brothers Limited and then worked in Hawkins from 1983 to 2013, including as the Executive Director-Operations and the Executive Director-Finance & Administration. Mr. Teckchandani provides consultancy for new businesses, business strategy and legal matters. Mr. Teckchandani holds a B.E. Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Regional Engineering College, Durgapur and a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. |
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Mr. Shyamak Ramyar Tata joined the Board of Hawkins as an Independent Director with effect from February 1, 2024. Mr. Tata is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He is also a Certified Information Systems Auditor, a Company Secretary and a Commerce graduate from Mumbai University. Mr. Tata was the Chairperson of Deloitte India from 2019 to 2021 and has over 35 years of experience serving large Indian and multinational companies. In his executive roles, Mr. Tata has previously led the Audit & Assurance (A&A) practice of Deloitte India (2015-2019) at the critical time of India's first ever mandatory auditor rotation transition and was Deloitte India's Consumer Business Industry Leader (2007-2015) responsible for focusing on opportunities and growth across the multi-disciplinary practice. At the beginning of his professional journey, on qualifying in 1985, Mr. Tata joined A F Ferguson &Co. (which became part of the Deloitte India network in 2004) where he was managing audit and audit-related engagements of principally listed companies and other multinational corporations. He was inducted into the partnership in 1998. Mr. Tata has been a committee member with the Confederation of Indian Industry on Financial Reporting, and on Governance. He was the Chairperson of CII's Financial Reporting Committee for two years till 2021-22. |
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Mr. Sanjay Khatau Asher joined the Board of Directors of Hawkins as an Independent Director with effect from February 1, 2024, as duly resolved by the Shareholders through Postal Ballot by remote e-voting. Mr. Sanjay Asher is presently a Senior Partner with M/s. Crawford Bayley & Co., India's oldest law firm, established in 1830. He has been a practicing Advocate since 1991 and was admitted as a Solicitor in the year 1993. Mr. Asher has authored several articles in national and international publications and also a book on the Companies Act, 2013. Mr. Asher has been in past on Primary Market Advisory Committee of SEBI and Department of Disinvestment, Government of India. Mr. Asher holds a Bachelor's Degree in Commerce and in Law from the University of Bombay. He is also a qualified Chartered Accountant. |
The Letter of Appointment/Re-appointment common to all the Independent Directors of Hawkins Cookers Limited |
