Schneider Electric announced the appointment of Preeti Gupta Mohanty as its new chief financial officer for the greater India zone. Mohanty has 20 years of finance experience across the consulting, FMCG and industrial segments.Previously, she was the region vice president at Ingersoll Rand. She was responsible for overseeing the EMEIA (Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa) region?s finance function with a business size of $1.8 billion at the company.

She managed more than 30 manufacturing sites and a finance shared service centre based in Bengaluru. Before Ingersoll Rand, Mohanty held key positions at GlaxoSmithKline Consumer. She was the internal audit head for the GSK India listed entity, leading the integration of Novartis consumer business into GSK.

Prior to that, she was region finance manager at Coca-Cola India and Deloitte.