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Simon Scarff
Senior Advisor
Delhi, India
Simon is a Senior Advisor to Langham Capital in the retail and consumer products sector.
He has over 45 years of experience in the consumer products and retail industry. The majority of his work experience has been with the GSK Group companies. Having stared his career at Horlicks Limited, UK (now part of GlaxoSmithKline plc), Simon has spent more than 30 years in India. He was first in India in 1963 at Nabha, in Punjab, responsible for the marketing and sales of the company’s products. He then returned to the UK to work within the UK Marketing department.
In 1974, he was appointed Coordinator on the Consumer Brands business in Nigeria. In 1976, he was appointed Regional Group Manager, responsible for the Near and the Middle East, initially based in Cyprus and later in Dubai. He returned to India as the Managing Director in 1978 and led the company till 2002. In 1993, he was appointed as a Director of SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals India Limited (now GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals India Limited).
Simon is currently the Non Executive Chairman of GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Limited. He is also a Director in several other organizations and Chairman of charitable groups in India.
In January 1999, Simon was awarded the Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Her Majesty the Queen of England in the New Year’s Honour List (1999) for service to British Industry.
