Saurabh leads ecap’s research and client delivery function and draws upon his 20 + years experience in leadership search and talent acquisition in both agency and in-house environments across Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Saurabh’s early career in leadership advisory was shaped at a top-tier, publicly listed, global executive search and leadership consulting firm where he was part of the leadership team of their global research center.

Saurabh moved to the UAE in 2013, and as a generalist, and leadership search consultant in the region, his body of work includes building out the regional leadership team for a global, market- leading US-based online gaming business, NED positions for portfolio companies of a SWF, multiple C -suite hires at a large government backed hospitality business in the UAE and assisting an Emirate’s ruling family’s strategy office with global searches to build out their urban planning and development teams.

More recently, Saurabh led the regional talent attraction team for a Fortune 100, Swiss F&B giant across their Asia, Oceania, Africa and Middle East businesses. As part of a global HR transformation program, Saurabh’s mandate was to steer and turn around the organization’s in-house talent advisory capability. With a dotted line to the Global Head of Talent Acquisition, Saurabh led a team of recruiters and employer brand specialists to facilitiate and lead strategic discussions on talent issues and people planning across all levels, functions and job families, drove technology adoption and advised the ‘in-market’ HRLT’s on all aspects of the Talent acquisition value chain.