IKEA, the Swedish home furnishings retailer, has appointed Susanne Pulverer as its new and first woman chief executive officer (CEO) and chief sustainability officer (CSO), for its India business.
Pulverer took over from the outgoing India CEO Peter Betzel, who moved on to the next assignment within the IKEA Group.
Pulverer began her association with IKEA as an environmental manager. She worked as the company’s MD of communications from May 2011 to August 2016 in Sweden, according to her LinkedIn profile.
From August 2017 to March 2019, she was in Bengaluru as the local community leader for IKEA India.
Pulverer then moved to Netherlands to take up the role of business risk and compliance manager for the Ingka Group, which owns most of the IKEA stores across the world.
