Mr. Ajit Krishnakumar

Ajit Krishnakumar is Executive Director & Chief Operating Officer of Tata Consumer Products, which he joined in 2020 as Chief Operating Officer.

Ajit 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 also served as the Tata Group nominee on the Boards of Directors of select affiliates. In 2019, he helped lead 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, the integrated India operations as well as the B2B businesses, among other corporate responsibilities.

Before he joined the Tata Group, Ajit 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 and in several countries.

He holds an MBA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a BBA from the University of Hartford, Connecticut.