Dinesh Thapar

Dinesh Thapar is a Fellow Chartered Accountant, a Gold Medalist Cost and Management Accountant and has a Diploma from ACCA. He obtained his Chartered Accountancy from ICAI in 1998 and graduated from St. Xavier’s, Kolkata in 1997 in Commerce.

He was the Group Chief Financial Officer of Reliance Retail for the past 3 years. Prior to that, he spent two decades with Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL), where he held a range of leadership roles across Corporate Finance, Business Finance, Investor Relations, Supply Chain, and managing JVs. In his last role as Vice President, he was the Finance Leader for the Beauty & Personal Care Division in India and the South Asia cluster.

While leading the Finance functional agenda, he has experience in the areas of business partnering, performance management, governance, strategic initiatives, engaging with the Board, and external communication. Across both the companies that he has worked for, he has been a part of the senior leadership team and on the Board of various group companies.