Flex Foods shareholders approved Independent Director Pradeep Narendra Poddar

Pradeep Narendra Poddar who was appointed as the Non-Executive Independent Director of Flex Foods on 21st July is approved by the shareholders of the company on 18th August 2023.

Pradeep Narendra Poddar is a veteran of the consumer goods industry, he groomed himself as a fast-track executive in Glaxo Foods, Heinz, and Tata. He became the first Managing Director of Heinz for India and South Asia in January 1996, at the age of 41, and successfully built a ‘high growth profitable’ business with a portfolio of Power Brands – Complan, Glucon D, Nycil, Farex, and Heinz Tomato Ketchup. He led the Tata Group’s Global foray into healthy beverages, representing Tata on the Boards of Nourishco, the JV with Pepsico, and the Rising Beverage Company (Activate Beverages led by Michael Eisner) in Los Angeles (USA). He crafted the Himalayan Natural Mineral Water brand and had seven global patents on innovative ‘do-good’ beverages. He has played a strategic role on the Boards of Welspun, Uflex and as Chairman of United Way Mumbai. He has in the past led the American Chamber of Commerce Bombay Chapter and helped further the Trade relations with the US. He had been appointed as Chairman of Sresta Natural BioProducts Limited with effect from December 15, 2021, and Chairman of the Board of Tasty Bite Eatables Private Limited with effect from December 20, 2022. He is a Chemical Engineer from UDCT Mumbai, 1976 and an MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad, 1978.