Pavan Khaitan

Experience & Activities

Pavan Khaitan is a graduate in Commerce from Punjab University and a qualified Chartered Accountant. He joined the company in 1997 as the CEO and has been spearheading various initiatives that have rationalized the cost, enhanced quality, focused on specialty paper and ultimately optimizing the resources to their fullest. Also, he has been recently appointed as Vice President of the Indian Pulp & Paper Technical Association (IPPTA). He has been instrumental in undertaking projects including debottlenecking and overall upgradation of the paper mill. Under his aegis, the backward integration cum upgradation project has been successfully completed in March 2021 with a capital outlay of INR 4,440 million. Under his leadership, Kuantum has forayed into Specialty paper products contributing to the product profile. He has focused on continuous de-bottlenecking ultimately leading to higher production in MT every year.