Mr Arvind Uppal
Non-Executive Director
Mr Arvind Uppal has joined the Board of the Company as a Non-Executive Director with effect from 01 April 2011.
Born in June 1962, Mr. Uppal is a Chemical Engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the Faculty of Management Studies, New Delhi. He has also attended a Program for Executive Development at I.M.D., Lausanne, Switzerland.
Mr Uppal is currently President, Whirlpool Asia Pacific and CMD Whirlpool India, which he joined in 2005 as the Managing Director when the company was incurring heavy losses. He is credited with the dramatic turnaround of the Whirlpool India business.
Prior to joining Whirlpool, Mr. Uppal has worked with Nestle for over 18 years having joined that company as a management trainee in 1987 in India. After having spent the first 10 years in Sales and Marketing in India, Mr. Uppal moved to the Nestle Head Quarters in Switzerland. He has had extensive international experience in countries like China and Vietnam and held positions of increasing responsibilities in Operations and General Management before returning to India to join Whirlpool of India as Managing Director.
Mr. Uppal is also an Independent Director on the Board of Tuscan Capital, a venture capital company.