Deepa Dey Exits HUL Following Four-year Tenure

Deepa Dey, Head of Communication and Sustainability, Nutrition and Special Projects is moving on from Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL). She is expected to leave by 31 July 2024, however, her next move is not clear yet. 

Her professional journey involved roles in hospitality, book retail, real estate, ecommerce, and leading communications for transnational corporations in various sectors including tea, shipping, and aviation.

Dey's career includes leadership roles at prominent companies like SpiceJet, Airtel, and GSK. She navigated a variety of responsibilities ranging from marketing communication to traditional PR, online reputation management, culture building, industry orchestration, crisis management, and global mergers and acquisitions across India and South Asia.

Reflecting on her tenure at HUL, Dey remarked, "What started as a stumbling step towards PR, over three decades, became a breathtaking, and sometimes sleepless, journey, full of learning, connecting, nurturing and custodianship of change & culture management."

Her role at HUL culminated in supporting the largest merger in the food space in India. As she steps away from HUL, Dey shared, “Today I am again at the cusp of a change.”