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Nestlé India taps Edouard Mac Nab as new CFO
GURUGRAM: Nestlé India on Friday said Edouard Mac Nab will take over as executive director–finance and control and chief financial officer from 1 March. He will replace Svetlana Boldina, who steps down on 31 January to move to a new role within a Nestlé affiliate. The proposal will be put to the audit committee and the board following a recommendation from the nomination and remuneration committee, the company said in a BSE filing.
Mac Nab is currently head of finance and control at Nestlé Canada, where he is credited with restoring profitability and pushing a digital overhaul of the finance function. Before joining the Nestlé group, he held senior finance roles at Reckitt, Mead Johnson Nutrition and Bristol-Myers Squibb.
He joined Nestlé France as chief financial officer in February 2022 and brings more than 25 years of international finance leadership experience across Asia, North America, Latin America and Europe.
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Faber-Castell India appoints Sunaina Haldar as director – marketing
With stints at Tata, SleepyCat and ADF Foods under her belt, Haldar is primed to redraw Faber-Castell’s brand story
MUMBAI: Faber-Castell India has poached Sunaina Haldar from ADF Foods, appointing her director – marketing as the German stationery brand looks to muscle up in a category that is rapidly reinventing itself around creativity and self-expression.
Haldar hit the ground running. “My first couple of weeks have been incredibly energising, understanding consumers, visiting markets, engaging with retailers and immersing myself into the world of Faber-Castell Group,” she said.
She arrives with considerable firepower. At ADF Foods, Haldar ran marketing across India and international markets for a portfolio spanning Ashoka, Aeroplane, Camel and ADF Soul. Before that, she was vice-president – marketing at direct-to-consumer mattress brand SleepyCat, where she helmed brand, content and performance marketing. Her résumé also includes a stint leading marketing, new product development and CRM for Tata SmartFoodz at Tata Consumer Products, no small proving ground.
Between corporate roles, Haldar also operated as a fractional CMO for early-stage startups, building marketing strategy and operational structures from scratch, a signal that she knows how to move fast with limited resources.
With 18 years straddling FMCG, D2C and the startup world, Haldar now takes the reins at a brand that has long owned the classroom but is clearly hungry for the living room. In a stationery market where the pencil has become a lifestyle statement, Faber-Castell has picked someone who knows exactly how to sell that story.
