About me

Amit Saha is a global level business manager, with 30 years of diversified experience in FMCG , Auto Sector. He has led business transformation & change management, policy advocacy, sustainability & climate plans for companies at global and regional levels. Role as Chief Sustainability Officer in Coca Cola had been focused on managing stakeholders & relationships with govt. representing the company in industry bodies like CII, leading industry forums and shaping conversations on issues at national scale like water, plastics, air , solid waste - towards sustainability, risk management & business continuity. Post second MBA degree, this time with ISB & Wharton, Amit decided to take sustainability beyond Coca-Cola. Amit jumped into the startup in 2018 to create an ecosystem around plastics! Amit founded Pro India recycling with the aim of bringing littered plastics back to give it second life & create value. A social but for profit enterprise, Pro India aims to clean India by creating circular economies using plastics as currency. Generating and sharing value with the waste pickers at the bottom of pyramid. This People, Planet and then Profit objective (3P) resonated well with the Reduce, Reuse and Recycle (3R). Amit is a thought leader, an out of the box thinker with solution-centric approach and ability to deal with ambiguity. Driven with an entrepreneurial spirit and passion to fructify ideas into businesses. Managing impactful communication, shaping industry conversations, analyzing and evaluating business ideas, scaling up or turning around businesses. Amit is a seasoned practitioner with hands on experience of P&L management, strategic planning, sales & business development, supply chain management, through people management and culture building. Delivered global level assignments and managed large teams spread across multiple geographies. Implemented large scale business transformation though sales force automation, re-engineering manufacturing , sales & logistics processes.