This former CFO of Unilever Nepal & now of an 85-year old listed company shares his unconventional career choices and journey with technology

• Meet Pramod Nair, a chartered accountant (CA) and CFO at Everest Industries Ltd, one of the leading listed building solutions companies in India.
• After 7 years at Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) India, HUL promoted him to CFO of Unilever Nepal Limited, a subsidiary in a highly regulated landlocked country.
• As CFO, Pramod was instrumental in navigating through Nepal’s strict regulations around technology for HUL and he moved to the 85-year-old Everest Industries to play a role while leveraging on technology.
• For the Digital Transformation Series powered by DELL Technologies, we spoke to Pramod to understand the impact of technology in his role as a CFO.

Why did you decide to be a CA?

I never planned to be a CA. Instead, I did Science until the 12^th grade and wanted to join the Indian army as part of my passion at the time.

After the 12^th grade, I received countless rejections, which resulted in disappointments that led me to consider other possible options one of which was being a CA.

Since I was good at academics and also one of my cousins was a CA, led me to choose CA as my career.