Harsh Bahadur

Mr. Harsh Bahadur is MA in History from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, and MBA from Boston University, the USA, in 1979. He has 33 years of rich experience in the Retail, Branded FMCG, Music, Sportswear, Business services, and Jewellery industries. He is currently on the Board of Indian Terrain Fashions Ltd. as an Independent Director and is also working as a senior advisor in PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC). Mr. Bahadur also advises Private Equity Funds and has evaluated Companies in the automobile servicing, branded food, and e-commerce sectors. In the past, he has worked with Hindustan Unilever for 11 years. He has held the office of CEO for the RP G Music International – a group Company that owned over 80% of the Indian music catalog, focusing on marketing Indian music to the diaspora across the world for two years. In 1997, he joined the US-based Sara Lee Corporation as the CEO for their food foray into India. In October 2000, he was appointed as Managing Director – India by the Dusseldorf-based Metro Group, the fourth largest retail and wholesale Company globally, to lead the launch of this International retailer into the Indian Market. After serving Metro India as the MD for six and a half years, he joined a Reliance Retail Initiative division as the President and CEO. He also worked as General Manager, Wholesale – India for Tesco, the world's 3rd largest retailer.