Ujjal Gupta is a business solution provider who enjoys working along with people to help them solve their difficult business problems and challenges – especially relating to management, finance and HR issues.

Ujjal has over 33 years of experience in management, finance, HR, and in dealing with critical business situations, covering business turn-arounds, mergers, business integration and starting up and nurturing new business, product or service lines.

Beginning with Unilever (FMCG) where he spent the first 15 years of his career, he has worked in RPG Enterprises (Diversified), WPP Group (Communication), IMSG (Marketing Services) and, within them, in relatively smaller SBUs, thus enabling his experience to have the range of global practices and the depth of ‘hands on’ delivery of strategies in SBUs.

Ujjal has worked on turning around businesses like Clarion Advertising, Gramophone Company of India (now known as ‘Saregama’), Lever Brothers Zimbabwe etc and carried out financial restructuring of the balance sheets where necessary.

He has played pivotal roles in various mergers and integration of businesses, e.g., Chesebrough-Pond’s into Lever Brothers in Zimbabwe, Enterprise Nexus into Bates India, Sercon into 141 Worldwide India, as well as in developing/nurturing start-up ventures like 141 WW and Zenith Media in India and Gramophone’s film production, music publishing and radio businesses.

Following a bright academic career throughout school and university, Ujjal was a national rank-holder in the professional examination for the chartered accountancy degree and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

He can be contacted at ujjal@ujjalgupta.com and at ‘+91 98300 67256′.