Saagarika Rai
Chief People Officer (Corporate)
Reliance Big Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.

Saagarika, currently Chief People Officer of Reliance BIG Entertainment Private Limited has an impressive track record with Jet Airways, RPG and Bharti Airtel spanning across 20 years of practice as a HR professional. Innovative and result oriented, she aims to leverage her strength and learning to lead and transform the workplaces she has been with to an ‘Employer of Choice’. The agenda for her HR Teams is straightforward, they must demonstrate a bias for action and be recognized as value added business partner. She has envisioned and implemented numerous innovative approaches in selection, development, compensation, performance management, communication and process management. Her core strength is to bring real impact on organization results by bringing together the best talent practices needed to attract, engage, build, leverage and retain top talent. Fastidious attention to detail facilitates her inclination to be result-oriented. Professionals mentored and trained by her have made a remarkable difference in the HR fraternity and in their respective organizations. 

She has been invited to write as well to share her learning at national and international academic institutions and professional forums. She has been conferred a number of accolades in India, some of which include the prestigious RASBIC Personality of the Year Award in 2005, Young Achievers HR Professional Award and HR awards for both her specific human capital practices as well as her inherent professionalism. In this day and age where everybody wants a fast-track to success, she stands as a testament to the golden rule that success comes to the truly deserving. She inspires young HR professionals to take a page out of her book and consistently challenges them to try things beyond what they have already mastered, in an attempt to encourage innovation both in terms of ideas and personal growth.