Campaign India Team
Jul 03, 2015

Colgate-Palmolive names Mukul Deoras global CMO

Takes marketing reins of CPG giant from Nigel Burton

Colgate-Palmolive names Mukul Deoras global CMO
Colgate Palmolive has revealed that company veteran Mukul Deoras has taken over as chief marketing officer effective 1 July 2015.
 
Colgate-Palmolive said Deoras is working out of its global headquarters in New York; he succeeds Nigel Burton, who is retiring after working with Colgate since 1979, the past four years as CMO.
 
Deoras moves into his new role after serving as president of Colgate’s Asia division, based in Hong Kong, since February 2012. Vinod Nambiar replaces him in that position.
 
Deoras joined Colgate in 2004 as director, special projects, for the company’s Asia Pacific division. He then became general manager of Colgate-Palmolive Thailand. In 2008, he was named vice president and general manager — personal care in the New York office before taking charge as managing director, Colgate-Palmolive India, in February 2010.
 
(With inputs from Campaign US.)
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