2025 Grocery Industry Icons & Innovators

Priya Nair has been building successful brands that engage consumers for the past 28 years. A high-performing business leader, Priya has experience in building and shaping categories, turning around underperforming businesses and leading diverse cross functional teams that achieve strong results.  

Priya joined Hindustan Unilever in 1995 and began building a foundational understanding of consumer products across Home, Beauty, and Personal Care in various roles within sales and marketing. While in Hindustan Unilever she led the Beauty & Personal Care and Homecare business. As Head of Homecare, she led the turnaround of the business delivering 10% CAGR revenue growth and 1000 Bps EBIT improvement over 8 years leading to rerating of HUL in the stock exchange over this period. She also led the portfolio and cost transformation of the business to build a more sustainable, future fit business.  

Prior to becoming President, Beauty & Wellbeing, Priya was the Global Chief Marketing Officer for the €12B Beauty & Wellbeing business. In this role she was responsible for global revenue growth and profit, brand equity management, brand building, global innovation program delivery and digital marketing transformation. 

Recognised amongst the most influential women in business for multiple years in India, Priya has been an Independent Director on the company board of a publicly listed Indian company, an ASCI board member, member of multiple government bodies with public private partnerships and has led industry forums like MMA India. 

Based in London, Priya is married and has one daughter.