The Payal Nanjiani Leadership Podcast

MARTIN BRETTENTHALER  |  CEO at SWISS KRONO GROUP / Chairman of the European Panel

Martin Brettenthaler (born 1970) is the CEO of SWISS KRONO Group, a leading family-owned laminate flooring and wood-based panel producer headquartered in Switzerland. With ten production facilities in eight countries and sales around the world, the Group employs 5’100 employees and generates a turnover of appr. EUR 2.3 billion in 2021/22. Prior to becoming SWISS KRONO’s CEO in
2016, he has been leading the wood-fibre insulation producer Pavatex and had been COO of HIAG Group before that. After his studies in St. Gallen and Paris he had started his career as management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group in Munich and Paris. Since 2021 he also has been serving as Chairman of the European Panel Federation (EPF) that represents the interests of the industry on the
European level. Martin Brettenthaler strongly believes in the important role that the wood-based panel industry can play as a role model for sustainability in the decarbonization of Europe’s manufacturing industry. A married father of three daughters he lives with his family near Basel, Switzerland, and
enjoys running and playing golf and chess.

UNNY RADHAKRISHNAN |  CEO at DIGITAS INDIA

 Unny Radhakrishnan is the CEO of Digitas India, the Marketing & Technology
services brand from the Publicis Groupe. Unny comes with over two decades of experience in marketing, digital consulting, and technology. He is also part of the advisory councils of Curious Times, India’s first online news portal for children,  Rustik Travel, an experiential travel brand, Imarticus Learning, an ed-tech and training firm and Victoria Venture Fund, an early-stage fund by Networkonomy Ventures. His other interests include Public Policy and understanding the impact of technology in society. “Trying to make a sense of this world” is how he describes his almost constant state of being.