India, Aug. 14 -- An Indian-American CEO has remembered with gratitude the time his former boss bought him a business class ticket so he could fly home after his father's death. Sanjay Khosla, a corporate leader with five decades of experience, started his career with Unilever. Today the CEO of Bunnik LLC, he was once a young employee at Unilever London who was left scrambling to get home to Delhi after receiving the news of his father's sudden death.

Khosla worked at Unilever for 27 years, leaving in 2004 to join Fonterra. It has been more than two decades since he left Unilever, but he still remembers the act of kindness that allowed him to fly home after his father's death.

The Indian-origin CEO recounted the incident in a LinkedIn p...