Board of Directors

Managing Director Naveen brings with him an illustrious 15 years of experience with two heavy weights in the FMCG scene in India, namely PepsiCo and Asian Paints. He did his BBA in 1999 from University of Lucknow and completed his PGP in Management (MBA) from Indian Institute of Management, Indore in 2001. Naveen joins us from PepsiCo where he started his career as General Manager - Channel Development in 2008. He was later promoted as VP Sales (East India & Exports) where he drove disproportionate growth and ensured a step jump in distribution through Go To Market transformation. His last assignment was Sales Director - North Market Unit, one of the largest and most profitable Market Units for PepsiCo India. Prior to this Naveen has had seven years of experience with Asian Paints across retail and institutional sales. In his various roles with Asian Paints, he has worked across East, North & West regions in India.

Managing Director Ashish Goupal took over as Managing Director of Marico Bangladesh Limited (MBL) in July 2018. He joins Marico Bangladesh after a long and rich career with Marico Group where he was Head of Trade Marketing, Shopper Marketing & Demand Planning for the India business. Ashish started his career as a management trainee with global consumer durable major Samsung in year 2004 and thereafter started his long stint with Marico's India Business in 2006.

During his 12 year stint with Marico, Ashish excelled and delivered path breaking performance in the areas of Sales, Brand Management, New Product Development, Trade Marketing, Shopper Marketing and Demand Planning. In his career he has successfully driven projects in Business Transformation, Process Transformation and Cost optimization along with global consultants. He is also credited with designing the Channel Expansion Model for Marico-India, expanding the network by more than 100k outlets. His deep understanding of business along with rich functional experience helped him in launching several successful innovations like Parachute Advansed Hot Oil and winning the prestigious Lakshya Awards for Excellence in Demand Planning, Innovation Award for Brand innovation and Sales Process Transformation.

Ashish has versatile interests and passionately pursues numismatics. In particular, he takes a keen interest in contributing towards developing industry talent and working with young professionals. He has been associated with Marcus Evans Group-Singapore and with The Economic Times for training industry talent on Rural Marketing, Shopper Marketing & Channel Management.

Independent Director Ms.Sheela R.Rahman is a lawyer with experience in practising and working in Bangladesh since 1990 mainly in the areas of commercial, corporate finance, foreign investment and banking laws. She was in-house legal counsel for a project finance company and a foreign bank, and lead a law office, Maxima.Legal. Since 2020, she is Director Legal & Compliance in BRAC, a large civil society organisation in Bangladesh. Ms.Sheela was a consultant with International Finance Corporation (IFC) for corporate governance advisory services in the South Asia. She worked with corporate boards, SMEs, family owned businesses, financial institutions, institutes and regulators, and experienced in corporate governance assessments, board evaluations, and generally strengthening corporate governance practices. She co-authored a comparison of corporate governance laws in South Asia and a code of corporate governance published by the Bangladesh Enterprise Institute. Ms.Sheela holds an LL.M. degree from University College London, and was called as a barrister-at-law from Lincoln’s Inn. She is an Advocate, Appellate Division, Supreme Court of Bangladesh.