WHWhirlpool of India500238Routine director change

Head-Supply Chain appointed; Head-Accounting and Head-Taxation tender resignation

Akash Mishra appointed Head-Supply Chain (VP-Supply Chain).

By ScoutQuest · Thu 22 Oct 2026, 11:31 AM IST · 2 min read

Head-Supply Chain Appointed

Akash Mishra, designated VP-Supply Chain, effective October 22, 2026

Head-Accounting Resignation

Prafulla Kandpal, with effect from October 30, 2026

Head-Taxation Resignation

Vijay Waghmore, with effect from November 13, 2026

What was approved

• The Board of Directors, on the recommendations of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee, approved changes in the Senior Management Personnel of the company. The intimation is dated October 22, 2026.

New supply chain head

• Mr. Akash Mishra has been appointed Head-Supply Chain, designated as VP-Supply Chain, with effect from October 22, 2026. He will report to the Managing Director of the company.
• Brief profile shared with the exchanges: over 20 yrs of experience leading large-scale operations and digital technology transformations, with experience in supply planning and customer service in organisations such as PepsiCo, Reckitt Benckiser and JSW Paints. He has worked on Agentic AI, Robotic Process Automation and touchless order processing architectures and has led tech deployments.
• He holds an MBA in Supply Chain Management from The Eli Broad Graduate School of Management, Michigan State University and a B.Tech in Chemical Technology from Harcourt Butler Technological Institute (HBTI).

Internal move

• Mr. Chetan Shetty, the current Head-Supply Chain, will move to Factory Head-Puducherry and will report to Head-Manufacturing of the company.
• With this change, he ceases to be part of Senior Management with effect from October 22, 2026.

Resignations from senior management

• Mr. Prafulla Kandpal, currently Head-Accounting, has tendered his resignation with effect from October 30, 2026, to seek opportunities outside the company.
• Mr. Vijay Waghmore, currently Head-Taxation, has tendered his resignation with effect from November 13, 2026, to seek opportunities outside the company.
• The company states that the details of their successors and the resignation letters will be shared in due course.

How to read it

• The update shows a handover at the top of the supply chain function, with an external hire coming in and the outgoing head moving to a plant-level manufacturing role.
• The two resignations are in the accounting and taxation functions, with exit dates in the following weeks, and successor details are to follow in separate updates.
• For a reader tracking governance, the useful markers ahead are the named successors for the accounting and taxation roles and the transition of the supply chain function to the new Head-Supply Chain.

Perception it can create

• A section of the market may view the appointments as a planned refresh of the senior team, since one change is an internal redeployment and a new Head-Supply Chain has been brought in with stated sector experience.
• Another section may read two senior exits in finance-related functions, coming close together, as a sign worth monitoring until successors are named.

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