Priyan Pillay

Executive Vice-President - Legal
Colgate-Palmolive (India) Limited

Mr. Priyan Pillay is a highly accomplished and result-oriented legal counsel with a distinguished career spanning over 19 years. Mr. Pillay’s extensive expertise lies in corporate & commercial laws, ethics & compliance, and enterprise risk management, specifically within the FMCG sector. Mr. Pillay currently serves as the Chief Compliance Counsel at the Colgate-Palmolive Company, based in New York.

Mr. Pillay has successfully held multiple leadership roles, demonstrating a proven ability to strategically manage evolving global risk across highly competitive and regulated environments. Mr. Pillay’s experience includes solid exposure across diverse jurisdictions, including advising across the African continent and, most recently, globally on compliance matters. Mr. Pillay holds LLB (Bachelors of Law) and LLM (Master of Laws) from the Republic of South Africa and has also attended the Global Leadership Program at Stanford University, USA.