Mr. Amitava Saha

Biography

Amitava is the Sr. VP & Head of Human Resources at Biocon. With over 17 years of work experience with  companies like Firstsource Solutions, Mashreq Bank, Accenture and Infosys in the Human Resource space across geographies covering Talent Acquisition, Employee Engagement and related areas of Employee Life Cycle. Amitava started his professional career in Sales and Marketing with Coats Viyella Plc handling Business development for Home Furnishings followed by Regional Sales for Fabrics business for North India. He moved into HR with Infosys handling various Talent Acquisition responsibilities followed by managing HR for the Global Sales Force for the company. He was responsible for setting up the Recruitment practice for Accenture BPO voice business in India before moving to Dubai with Mashreq Bank managing HR for the Corporate Bank. Prior to joining Biocon in December 2013, Amitava was heading Talent Acquisition and HR for APAC business for Firstsource Solutions.  Amitava is a BE (Electrical Engineering) graduate from Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi University and PGDM from IIM, Kolkata.

Research Interest

Cosmetology