Nikhil started his journey in 1999 as a Management trainee with Perfetti Van Melle India (PVM). Over the last 25 years, he assumed diverse roles within sales and marketing and has done Managing Director (MD) stints abroad before recently taking over as MD for the 350 million USD business back in India.

After doing a 3 years sales stint at the start of his career, he moved to marketing. His time since 2002 in marketing overlapped with clutter breaking advertising that went on to make PVM brands household names in India. He has, contributed immensely towards success of home grown brands like Juzt Jelly, Creamfills and Alpenliebe Eclairs. 2012 was the year, Nikhil was elevated to Marketing Director position at Perfetti Van Melle India.

In 2015 he embarked on a journey in the South East Asian markets after being appointed MD for PVM Philippines. Nikhil is credited with the turnaround story of PVM Philippines and, that business since then has grown from strength to strength.

2018 he moved to Vietnam as the MD and delivered growth even during the Covid-19 impacted years. He believes that ensuring the factory operations continued uninterrupted, despite the lockdown, was a significant win.

On his return to India, he is working towards bringing in key transformations with special focus on DEI, Sustainability and Business agility.

An engineer by education, Nikhil has done his MBA from TAPMI, Manipal. He is an avid runner, a fitness enthusiast and a big advocate for people devoting time for self-improvement and to their families. Nikhil loves to spend as much of his free time reading and playing with his rescued and rehomed dogs