| Asim Ghosh | |
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| Born | December 7, 1947 New Delhi, India |
| Known for | President and CEO of Husky Energy and Indian mobile telecommunications pioneer |
Asim Ghosh is President and CEO of Husky Energy Inc., one of Canada’s largest integrated oil and natural gas companies, headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. Listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, Husky produced an average of 307,000 barrels (48,800 m3) of oil equivalent per day in 2010.[1]
Ghosh was born on December 7, 1947 in New Delhi, India. He has taken on senior leadership roles in Canada, India and Hong Kong at a number of multinational companies, including Rothmans International, Pepsi Foods and Hutchison Whampoa.[2]
Ghosh is married to Sanjukta Ghosh, with whom he has has two children. He is the son of Amalananda Ghosh, a respected Indian archeologist who served as Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India from 1953 to 1968, and Sudha Ghosh.[3]
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Ghosh graduated from the Indian Institutes of Technology in Delhi in 1969 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering. Ghosh later received an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1970.[4]
Ghosh began his career with Procter & Gamble (Canada) in 1971. Ghosh joined Rothmans International in 1980, eventually becoming a Senior Vice President with subsidiary Carling O’Keefe, one of Canada’s largest breweries. In 1989, he became the founding co-CEO of Pepsi Foods (India) and was tasked with setting up food operations in that country. Ghosh moved to Hong Kong in 1991 in order to set up a consumer goods joint venture between Pepsi and Hutchison Whampoa. Shortly thereafter, he became CEO of AS Watson Industries, a subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa (1991–1998).[4]
In 1998, Ghosh took on the role of leading Hutchison Whampoa’s telecommunications joint venture in India, where he served as Managing Director and CEO of Hutchison Essar Ltd. Ghosh served in the role until announcing his retirement in March 2009. During his tenure, the company grew from a one-city operation into the country’s second-largest mobile phone provider with more than 63 million subscribers.[2] He presided over the sale in 2007 of Hutchison Whampoa’s stake in the company to Vodafone in a deal that valued the business at approximately $19 billion. At the time, the sale was the biggest corporate takeover in India's history[5] and according to a Thomson Reuters' [6] analysis, the largest all-cash transaction in Asia up to 2007, with Vodafone agreeing to pay $11.1 billion in cash for Hutchison Whampoa’s stake.[7]
In June 2010, Ghosh became President and CEO of Husky Energy.[8]
Ghosh is a member of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives,[9] a former Chairman of the National Telecom Committee of the Confederation of Indian Industries, a former Chairman of the Cellular Operators Association of India[4] and a Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.[10]