Pioneer Distilleries, a subsidiary of United Spirits Limited, announced the appointment of Gopal Kothari as Chief Financial Officer, effective Oct 22, 2021. He succeeds Sanjoy Sarkar, who resigned from the role, with effect from Oct 22, 2021. Also, the company appointed J. Swaminathan as Company Secretary.
Gopal Kothari is a qualified Chartered Accountant (ICAI) and Company Secretary (ICSI) with over 19 years of experience of working with leading consumer products companies. He is presently Vice President – Supply Finance in United Spirits Limited (USL). He served the Company as Chief Financial Officer for quite some time and served one of the then wholly owned subsidiaries of United Spirits Limited, Tern Distilleries Private Limited as a Director.
Prior to joining USL, he was working as Finance Controller of Diageo India Private Limited. He has worked in various finance roles at Shaw Wallace & Co. Limited, Nestle India Limited, PepsiCo India Holdings Private Limited, and GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Limited.
J Swaminathan is a qualified Company Secretary and a law graduate with over 11 years of experience in Company Secretary functions. He has been working in United Spirits Limited (“USL”), holding Company of Pioneer Distilleries Limited since October 2010 and is currently designated as Senior Manager – Secretarial in USL and also Company Secretary of Sovereign Distilleries Limited, one of the unlisted subsidiaries of USL.
Swaminathan has handled various activities such as board related functions, corporate governance functions, acquisition, hiving off, adjudication of stamp duty on account of mergers etc., and has been one of the core members of the USL Secretarial team, the statement said.
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