Rahul Asthana
Senior Director, Baby & Child Care Sector, Marketing & Innovation Asia Pacific, Kimberly-Clark
Rahul has 16 years of brand building, marketing and sales experience working on the largest brands with the largest FMCG companies in the world.
Since January 2014, Rahul has been a key member of the Asia Pacific Leadership Team of Kimberly-Clark’s consumer business as regional sector leader for its largest business, Baby & Child Care – which is $1.5 Bln net sales and close to 50% of Kimberly Clark’s Asia Pacific business. He is also responsible for the digital & ecommerce strategies and capability building for all of Kimberly Clark’s consumer businesses. The territories include Australia, North Asia, ASEAN and India.
Prior to this, Rahul was the sector leader for baby care for ASEAN, India, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Before joining Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Rahul worked for 13 years with Procter & Gamble in the health and beauty business units. He has worked on billion dollar brands like Head & Shoulders, Pantene and Wella in hair care and Olay, Safeguard and Old Spice in Skin and Personal Care.
Rahul has a BA in Mathematics and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He has been in Singapore for 14 years and lives here now with his wife and baby girl.