Nyrika Holkar is the Executive Director of Godrej & Boyce (G&B), a part of Godrej Enterprises Group (GEG), and Chairperson of the CSR Committee, one of India’s largest and most respected conglomerates, serving millions of consumers and businesses globally with a strong focus on engineering, design and sustainability. She leads the brand, legal and M&A functions for the Godrej Enterprises Group. In this capacity, she is driving a group-wide strategy to build new interventions that help elevate customer experience, foster collaborative innovation amongst employees, and enhance data-led decision-making in business.
As the brand custodian, she works closely with the sustainability, design, marketing, communications, sales and service functions across Godrej Enterprises Group.
During her tenure as Executive Director, Nyrika has helped to significantly streamline GEG's financial exposure by instituting end-to-end processes for the management of commercial contracts, risk and intellectual property. She has also been driving a single view of the customer across four of GEG’s consumer businesses: Appliances, Interio, Locks and Security through the integration of sales, service and marketing data into a single platform. She is driving a service transformation across the consumer-facing businesses to ensure consistency of customer experience across all touchpoints.
Nyrika is currently working on the turnaround of GEG’s furniture retail brand Interio to reimagine the product, customer and omnichannel experience to create a contemporary, design-first brand which serves the evolving lifestyle needs of customers.
She also oversees Godrej Design Lab, which gives a platform to designers, artisans and craftsmen from across India and globally. Conscious Collective is the newest property of Godrej Design Lab, which brings together architects, designers, urban planners, conservationists and civil society to explore how design can create solutions for built spaces that are more sustainable with materials that are more ecologically sound with minimal impact on the planet.
As Chairperson of the G&B CSR Committee and Sustainability Council, Nyrika is actively involved in G&B’s community development efforts, skilling and the protection of wetlands in India.
Prior to joining GEG, Nyrika began her career at the London office of White and Case, a US law firm based in the UK, where she specialised in mergers & acquisitions. She went on to work in the Mumbai office of AZB & Partners, where she advised offshore companies intending to invest in India. She read law at the University of London and is a qualified solicitor in India and the United Kingdom. Before this, she obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Colorado College, USA, in philosophy and environmental economics.
She is on the boards of the Naoroji Godrej Centre for Plant Research, which conserves endemic species of the Western Ghats, and the Centre for the Advancement of Philanthropy, which provides compliance and legal advice to NGOs in India. Nyrika is also on the board of the United World Colleges Committee India, which is part of a global network of IB schools. She is part of the Advisory Council for the Sustainable Futures Collaborative and is part of the Ananta Aspen Centre’s Fellowship. She represents GEG at the Confederation of Indian Industry, Western Region.
An avid nature lover, Nyrika is passionate about biodiversity conservation, photography and trekking.