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Sunny George Verghese is the Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Olam. Sunny holds a post graduate management degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and has also completed the Advanced Management Program (AMP) from the Harvard Business School. Sunny worked for the Unilever Group in India before he joined the Kewalram Chanrai Group in 1986. In 1989, Sunny was given the mandate to start from scratch an agricultural products export business for the Group, Olam.
Sunny is responsible for setting the direction and providing the leadership to steer Olam through its ambitious expansion and growth plans. He is responsible for the strategic planning, business development and overall management for the Olam group of companies worldwide.
In a short span of 14 years, Sunny and his team have built this business to a S$2.5 billion enterprise. Olam is today a multinational company with operations in 37 countries through wholly owned subsidiaries across 12 businesses, employing over 2300 people worldwide. Olam enjoys a leading global position in each of the major businesses that it participates in.
Other involvements include Member, Standing Tax Advisory Committee (Singapore Government); Member, Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) (under the Minister for Entrepreneurship); Member of the Board & Chairman of Audit Committee, International Enterprise Singapore; Member, International Business Advisory Council (IBAC) to the Director General of the WTO; Member, Economic Review Committee (Singapore Government) and Co-Chairman of Logistics and International Trading Working Group.
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