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ACG appoints Shankar Gupta as Chief Sales Officer Industry authority to re-join business in a newly created role

ACG, the world’s largest integrated pharmaceutical and nutraceutical manufacturing solutions provider, is delighted to announce that Shankar Gupta will be re-joining the business in the newly created role of Chief Sales Officer.

In his new role, Shankar will be responsible for driving sales across all four ACG divisions (Films and Foils, Capsules, Inspection and Engineering) in order to continue building the company’s ‘One ACG’ agenda. Essentially, this will involve bringing further uniformity to ACG's customer outreach processes, creating more integrated solutions, and ultimately providing a consistent brand experience to ACG’s global customers, regardless of business division or location. He will also focus on scaling new initiatives.

Shankar will report directly into the managing director, Karan Singh, who comments:

"I am so pleased that Shankar Gupta has decided to rejoin the business during this exciting time. His understanding of ACG and its deliverables, and deep insight into our customers’ businesses will help us to align ourselves better to their changing needs. More importantly, he will champion and support better collaboration and partnership with customers.

“Shankar will be pivotal in calibrating and aligning our business units to our goal of ‘Making it Better’, and our belief that everyone deserves access to good medicine."

Shankar Gupta adds: “I am excited to use my experience in the pharmaceutical industry to augment ACG's growth by aligning the organisation to the changing dynamics of the global healthcare Industry.

“It will certainly call for a huge collaboration of efforts both internally and with our customers, but will ultimately lead to a richer, deeper and more numerous partnerships.”

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About ACG

In accordance with its commitment to making the world healthier, ACG has been delivering exceptional solutions to the global pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industry for sixty years, across six continents and in a hundred countries.

Collaboration is at the core of ACG’s ethos. ACG is the world’s only integrated pharma manufacturing solutions company, with products ranging from capsules to films & foils, to engineering equipment and inspection systems – all that meet international regulatory requirements. For ACG, it’s always about finding innovative solutions to the world’s greatest health challenges, together.

For more information, please contact the ACG media relations team:

madhurima.chakraborty@acg-world.com