![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Leena then became Employee Relations Manager of the company, headquartered in Mumbai and continued to rise up the ranks, becoming the general HR manager in ten years. It's made me who I am', she told Time magazine.Ī year after graduating the trainee program, Leena became the factory personnel manager of the Lipton factory in Kolkata, where she spent three years. 'I learned so many lessons, about the factory and production, the shop-floor ecosystem, the importance of resilience. When she began working at Hindustan Unilever more than two decades ago, the factories didn't even have women's toilets and after ensuring some were built for her - they were jokingly dubbed 'Leena's Loos'. 'It was 3,000 boys and 18 girls in engineering college and the four years there toughened me up, made me thick skinned and I learnt how to claw my way through a largely male dominated space', she told the Khaleej Times. Indian-born British businesswoman and former Unilever executive Leena Nair, 52, London, (pictured) was announced as French luxury fashion house Chanel's new chief executive ![]()
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