Surender Sharma is Director, Legal & Company Secretary at Colgate-Palmolive (India) Limited. Being part of the Board and Leadership Team at Colgate India, he uses his more than two decades of industry experience in helping the Management to devise business strategies, risk identification & mitigation strategies and Corporate Governance.

Prior to joining Colgate, Surender had worked as an In-house Legal Counsel in Companies like Marico, Heinz India, Reckitt Benckiser, Taj Group and Maruti Suzuki. Other than India, he also handled legal issues pertaining to Bangladesh, South East Asia, Middle East & North Africa Region.

He has established a reputation of solving complex business problems and introducing simplification of Legal tasks with the aid of technology. He takes keen interest in driving Ethics and Compliance Culture across the organization and developing the next line of legal talent.

Under his leadership, his team has won Legal Era Awards 2020-21 for “Small Size Legal Team of the Year '' and “Legal Excellence Award'' from Corporate Counsel Association of India. He was the winner of “In- house Counsel Award” by India Business Law Journal in 2021.

My ability to work under pressure and empower my team to make decisions. I believe in adding value by providing out of the box solutions to complex business problems.