Nishant Saxena is the CEO - International of Cipla, one of Top 15 generic companies in the world (US$2.6bn revenues, 25000 employees). BU span across Latin America, Europe, North Africa, Asia and Australia.
Formerly, Winner Industry CFO Awards:
a) Young CFO Of the Year
b) Best-in-class High Performance Team
Awarded against 3 year performance as CFO of Cipla SA/SSA. Revenues grew 2-3x market; Profit margins doubled to the highest in pharma; Cash flow and ROIC tripled; receivables went down to half; aggressive cost optimization and so on. Finance moved from an accounting/compliance function to being a strong co-pilot to the business.
On the board of a dozen entities across the world including two listed companies.
Prior to Cipla, Founder-CEO of Elements Akademia. Won World Bank's "High Impact Entrepreneurship" award in Mexico, Profiled as "40 Social Entrepreneurs Making India Better" (Outlook) and "50 Hottest Start-ups" (Business India).
Prior to that, multiple senior roles in Procter & Gamble (World’s largest FMCG company), including Deputy CFO- P&G India and Regional M&A Head.
Consistent Top Performer. Worked as expatriate in: Japan, Philippines, Singapore, India and South Africa, & UAE.
BE, MBA from one of India’s top schools (IIM, NIT). Advanced entrepreneurship course from Chicago Booth.
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Specialties: Proven record as business leader driving top and bottom line growth. Creating a compelling and strategic vision and then driving against it. Experience of leading large, multi cultural and multi geographic teams.
