Competitive cricketer turned assistant brand manager is now heading a $368 billion giant. Meet P&G’s new CEO Shailesh Jejurikar

The company announced on Monday that the CEO of Operations, Shilsh Giguricar, 58, will take official on January 1, 2026. The company said that the current CEO John Muller will move to the role of an executive president, where he will lead the board of directors and advise Giguricar. There is no timetable for a muller in the seat of the executive chair; The P&G plate will specify the time it will specify.

“D&G spokesman luck Muller leaves behind a strong record and a legacy in P&G. The company is ranked 149th in The Fortune 500 and is in the nineteenth place in the list of the most admired companies in the world.

“The company has continued to achieve strong growth and create value by leading John Al -Thabet as CEO,” said Joe Jiminies, the independent director of the P&G plate, as part of one of the most important transformations in the history of the company. There is a strong plan for continuous success and now it’s time to move to Shalish as CEO. We are lucky and grateful to the continuation of John as an executive president. ”

Jejurikar has held the position of CEO since 2021 and has served as CEO of Global Fabric and Home Care. From 2016 to 2021, Jejurikar was the executive sponsor of global sustainability in P&G, where he led the integration of the company’s sustainability in commercial operations with a focus on the positive impact on the environment and society with creating value for shareholders, and because it is LinkedIn.

P & G Jejurikar will pay $ 1.6 million in salary with a possible reward of $ 3.2 million. The Board of Directors granted him long -term royal rights worth $ 14 million, divided equally between performance shares and long -term incentive prizes. Last year, Jejurikar made $ 10 million as CO, while Moller’s total compensation reached $ 23 million.

From a boy to the CEO

P&G was founded in 1837 by the English -born candle maker William Brookter and the soap maker in Irish James Gamble. Unlike a short period between 1999 and 2000 when P & G led your Durc Jagir, born in the Netherlands, Giguricar-a homogeneous citizen-will be the second CEO born outside the United States to lead the company.

His ascension to the summit came at P&G after spent a childhood in India. Jiguricar Podcasts reported P&G graduates in 2023 that he began his education in an area outside Mumbai, which he described as “largely in the middle of anywhere.” He said that the nearest school was 45 minutes by car.

He moved to Hyderabad in the eighth grade and the school began to climb to the young. Jiguricar said that his high school years in Hyderabad helped him find himself. Discover the cricket game, a sport that distinguishes it and played competitively every Sunday. In the twelfth grade, he won the school head of the school, which was offered a real opportunity to drive.

Jiguricar said that one of his main life lessons came during his time as president. The students usually woke up in the morning, went to PE, returned to their homes and bathed before going to the hour of study. As a boy, the function of Jergear was to ensure that everyone’s rooms were in good condition and the family was manufactured. He usually made his bed every morning before leaving it to PE, but he was rushing one day and forgotten. While he was checking the rooms of other students to make sure they had been arranged, he realized that he forgot to make his bed.

Jiguricar said he finally realized that the chemistry teacher had discovered the error, made the bed, and never mentioned a word about Jiguricar – no comment, no lecture, nothing.

“I left it with the biggest lesson,” said Jiguricar. ”

Giguricar went to the college in Bombay and then obtained a Master of Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management in Lanawo. P&G was rented as a brand director in 1989, and he worked for the company in various cities all over the world in decades since then.

Grow your executive director

The famous P&G employs a “building from the inside”, and in its 174 -year -old history, the CEO of its ranks has not been rented. P&Gs said that the executives who have a 30 -year -old bus in the company are more than the base rather than exception.

Former CEO of Superstar Ag Lafley, who took office after he exceeded Jarger less than two years in this role, served from 2000 to 2009 before Bob McDonald succeeded. McDonald has moved to business through the global financial crisis and in 2013, the P&G LAFLY Board brought back a second work as Boomrang CEO, rather than looking abroad.

One of the main priorities of Lavley was after returning to spend a second period, the board of directors’ focus on planning the caliphate to replace it. Patton was transferred in 2015 to David Taylor, who served as CEO from 2015 to 2021, and an executive head from 2021 to 2022.

The “Jejurikar” restructuring plan that inherits the exit from some brands, disruption, and outside the market, and the company explained in a series of segments presented at the Deutsche Bank conference for consumers in Paris last month.

“I am honored to work as a CEO of P&G,” Jiguricar said in the company’s statement. “P & G PEOPLE, our brands, our capabilities in innovation and operational excellence supports my confidence in the future of continuous growth and creating value.”

Muller said: “It was an honor to work as an executive of P&G, and I am incredibly proud of the value of the P&G people through an integrated strategy that is implemented with distinction.” “I look forward to shailesh support, the entire team while continuing to improve the performance and value of the P&G brands and the categories to win with consumers and clients around the world.”