Damodar Mall is the CEO of Grocery Retail at Reliance Retail, where he steers one of India’s largest grocery and everyday essentials businesses with a deep focus on consumer insight, omnichannel growth, and value formats. An engineer from IIT Bombay and gold-medalist MBA from IIM Bangalore, he began his career in brand management at Hindustan Unilever before helping shape modern Indian retail through ventures like D-Mart and key leadership roles at Future Group. Known for his boots-on-the-ground approach to understanding customers and for blending traditional retail wisdom with data and technology, Damodar is also an author and thought leader in supermarket strategy and consumer behaviour across India.