Rakshit Hargave appointed as CEO and MD, Brittania Industries

Rakshit Hargave has been appointed to lead food products company Brittania Industries. During his career, Hargave has had experience in both India and overseas. He was earlier CEO of Birla Opus, a paint venture of the Aditya Birla group. He has also headed operations of Beiersdorf (NIVEA) in India, Africa, ASEAN and ANZ regions during his career. Apart from having worked with Hindustan Unilever as Chief Operating Officer of its group company Lakme Lever.

Hargave’s experience includes a stint at Jubilant Food Works, where he launched the Domino’s Pizza 30-minutes guarantee delivery model. He also worked with Nestle India, managing Maggi Noodles, and had a stint with Tata Motors post his engineering.

Hargave is an MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) and holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT (BHU) Varanasi. He was honoured with a Distinguished Young Alumni Award by IIT Varanasi.