YOGESH CHANDER DEVESHWAR-ITC

TEAM-5 Aishwarya.V Bharanidharan S Saleemmohamed A Surendran P Sathiesh Kumar I

BORN & BROUGHT UP

Born - 4 February 1947 - Lahore, British India. Yogesh also known by the nick-name Yogi

EDUCATION

Bachelor Degree-Mechanical Engineering-IIT, Delhi. AMP-Diploma Harvard Business School. Advanced Training and Hotel ling Cornell university

WORK EXPERIENCE
1968-ITC

Management Pupil. 1972-MBO Advisor-Corporate Headquarters, Calcutta. 1974-Factory Manager-Packaging & Printing plant, Chennai. 1984-Board of Directors-ITC 1991-Air India Chairman & Manager. 1996-Chairman of ITC foods.

CAREER
Serving

15 years as a Chairman in ITC Served as a President of Confederation of Indian Industry Member of the Board of Governors in Indian School of Business & the Board of Governors of the IIM.

RESPONSIBLITIES

Social Responsibility

e-Choupal Information Technology Enabled Rural Information and Trading Network, Social and Farm Forestory Helping Tribals to grow trees in their private wastelands
Triple Bottom Line Performance Economic, Environmental and Social Values Identify and enter into more FMCG areas to create more opportunities directly and indirectly.

Corporate Responsibility

HONOURS & AWARDS

Honorary Fellowship of Indian Management Association and Management Entrepreneurship Award-2001-Ernest &Young Best Hotellerian Award-1986 Business person of the year-2006(UK Traders & Investors) Sustainable Leadership Award-2007 Global Leadership Award- US Indian Business Council-2010 Padmabushan-2011 Marketing Man of the year-1994 Alumni Award of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi Lakshya Business Visionary Award, 2006

LEADERSHIP QUALITIES

Believes on Vision, Values complemented by Vitality - Sustainable Business Practices Competitiveness and Profitability along with sustainable business practices Highly Committed Guided ITC successfully in crisis period in nineties Decreased dependency in tobacco sales Transformation of the business from 5000Cr to 27000Cr Company in his tenure Service to Nation Through Corporate Social Responsibilities

REFERENCES

http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/y-cdeveshwar.html http://www.itcportal.com/about-itc/chairmanspeaks/Chairman-Speaks-xlri-jamshedpur.aspx http://businesstoday.intoday.in/story/yc-deveshwar-onbusiness-challenges/1/11611.html http://www.bharatplus.com/index.php/indianentrepreneurs