Labanyendu Mishra

Mr Labanyendu Mishra has built businesses in Bangladesh, run dairy brands across South Asia and led sales in Nigeria, a career he describes as cross-country, cross-function and cross-category. His expertise spans P&L management, strategy and turnaround; sales, marketing and international business; and operations, supply chain and quality.

He spent twelve years with Cadbury and Mondelez, rising from area sales to business manager for Bangladesh and South Asia. He then served as country manager for emerging markets at Fonterra, chief marketing officer at NTC Industries and vice president of sales at Olam. He began as an engineer at Tata Motors and Infosys before moving into sales at Lafarge India.

A metallurgical engineer from NIT Rourkela and an alumnus of XIM Bhubaneswar, he brings to First Bridge a practical understanding of how operations and supply chains really run: across borders, through distributed teams and under the pressure of a P&L.