Mr Rajesh Seth is Professor of Practice at the School of Management, IILM University, Gurugram, and brings over 38 years of experience in the cement industry, predominantly with ACC Limited, where he held senior leadership positions across Sales & Marketing and Supply Chain Management, including Vice President – Sales, Director – Logistics and Head – Central Logistics.

A results- and people-oriented business leader, Rajesh has extensive experience in Sales & Marketing strategy, consumer and commercial excellence, branding and product launches, P&L management, Supply Chain and Logistics, logistics transformation, cost leadership and cross-functional business leadership. During his career with ACC, he led several strategic initiatives involving logistics systems, processes and infrastructure.

He was instrumental in conceptualising and leading ACC’s Logistics Safety Improvement Programme, which resulted in significant improvements in road safety across the organisation. The programme received the Holcim OH&S Excellence Award for South Asia/ASEAN in 2013, presented at Zurich. Several of the initiatives developed under the programme, covering People, Vehicles and Processes, subsequently influenced safety practices across the cement industry and the wider industry community.

Rajesh has also been actively involved with industry bodies and institutions. He participated in the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Task Force 3 and has been associated with FICCI, including its National Committee on Infrastructure. He has worked closely with Indian Railways on commercial and technical policy matters and with RITES on the development and deployment of special wagons for the cement industry.

After retiring from ACC in 2016, Rajesh continued to be associated with the cement industry through consulting and mentoring assignments. His consulting experience includes working with Asian Fine Cements, Punjab, on Sales & Marketing and Supply Chain strategies for its greenfield 1.5 MTPA plant, as well as Shree Digvijay Cement Company Ltd., Sikka, Gujarat, where he worked from 2018 to 2023 on Sales & Marketing, Supply Chain strategy and Logistics Safety, including initiatives relating to truck parking and yard management.

Rajesh has also been associated with management education for several years. He was an Adjunct Professor at Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management (LBSIM), New Delhi, and has been associated with other leading business schools as visiting/guest faculty. He has also been a core faculty member for Holcim Regional Induction Programmes across South Asia and ASEAN and a Task Force Leader for the Holcim Capability Building Forum, Asia Pacific.

His professional development includes major executive programmes at leading international and Indian institutions, including the Marketing Strategy Programme at the Asian Institute of Management, Manila (2002), the Global Logistics Programme at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad (2007) and the Senior Management Programme at IMD, Lausanne (2009).
An alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad, where he completed his PGDM (1976–78), Rajesh holds a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Physics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi (1973–76), where he was awarded the University Medal for securing first rank. Rajesh passed out from St. Columba’s High School, New Delhi in 1972.

At IILM, his areas of interest include Sales & Marketing, Supply Chain and Logistics, Consumer Behaviour, AI-enabled business applications, Design Thinking and Executive Development. He is particularly interested in bringing real-world business situations into management education through experiential, practice-oriented learning, and in exploring the application of AI and Design Thinking in business decision-making and management education.

Rajesh also writes regularly on Artificial Intelligence, education and emerging business trends, contributing articles and opinion pieces to leading publications including The Times of India, The Pioneer, Autonomy Urban Mobility newsletter, Paris and Indian Cement Review. His recent writing has focused on topics such as Deep Purpose and Corporate Longevity, AI in education and AI-Thinking Matrix, generative and agentic AI, AI-enabled supply chains, AI in Road Safety, digital payments and the changing relationship between AI and the workplace.
His current academic and professional interests lie at the intersection of industry, management education and emerging technologies, with a particular focus on preparing students and business professionals to think critically, adapt to technological change and apply AI meaningfully to real-world business problems.