Specialist Recruiting, HR Advisory Services is a science focused recruiting and HR consulting firm with over 70 clients in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and related industries in India and Southeast Asia. The firm provides recruitment, HR consulting, and advisory services to the science R&D sector. It has a specialist team of scientist recruiters and consultants with deep domain knowledge and market insights. Some of its achievements include hiring over 500 R&D professionals over the past 3 years and providing HR advisory services to global clients.

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Specialist Recruiting, HR Advisory Services
for Science R&D

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Contents
Background
Core Strengths
Core Team
Scope of Activity
Sectoral Focus
Significant Achievements
Value Proposition (Summarized)
Selective Client List

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Background & Introduction
Specialist Science focused Recruiting and HR Services firm.
Exclusive focus on Chemical and Biosciences.
Over 70 clients across India & South East Asia, spanning
Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, Medical Devices, Agricultural
Sciences, FMCG, Chemicals and Material Sciences.
Strategic alliance with ABLE –, the Industry body that represents
the Indian Biotech Sector.
Team: Specialist recruiting team of Scientist Recruiters, comprising
PhD and MS qualified Scientists who have made a career
transition into Science recruiting.
Deep engagement and insights into the Science R&D Sector –
translated into bespoke HR and Business Advisory services.

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Core Strengths
Strong ties
with
Industry, &
Academia
Over 5
years of Deep
exp in Domain
Science Knowledge
hiring. Core
Strengths
Strong
pulse of Specialist
market team of
and deep Scientist
Consultants
network.

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Core Team
Shyam Suryanarayanan: Founder and CEO
• Over 12 years of cumulative experience across HR, Learning and Retail industries.
• Strong entrepreneurial background, with 9 years in the HR business, of which, the last 5 have been in Science based HR.
• Bachelors Degree (Economics) from Loyola, Chennai, and MBA (Marketing) from IMI, New Delhi. The only Non Science
person in the organization!
Dr.Nitu Sood: Head - Delivery
• PhD from TERI (Hydrocarbon Biotechnology), MSc & M.Phil (Microbiology), from Gujarat University.
• Experience spans Hydrocarbon Biotechnology, Environmental Biotech, and Agri Biotechnology.
• Has 2 Patents and 3 International Publications from her doctoral work.
Keerthi Somnath Nair: Consultant
• MS (Research) in Biomedical sciences from the University of Glasgow, Scotland.
• Prior experiences include that of ‘Facilitator’ at Dr.Reddys Foundation and Market Researcher in the Life Sciences domain.
Preeti Panda: Consultant
• A Masters Degree in Food Science & Technology from GB Pant University.
• Experience across the Food Industry (Quality) as a Food Technologist.
Dr.Meera Velankar: Consultant
• PhD in Life Sciences from University of Mumbai
• Post Doc stints at University of Stellenbosch(South Africa) and Tulane University, US.
• Strong blend of exposure to Biology and Analytical Science.
Arijit Basu: Business Manager
• MS – Environmental Microbiology from University of Aberdeen.
• 5 years of experience in the R&D space across Xcelris Labs and Syngene.

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Scope of Activity
HR
Intelligence
& Advisory
HR Consulting
& Execution
Contract
/Temp Staffing
of Science
folks
Recruitment:
Campus Hiring
& Permanent
Staffing

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Sectoral Focus
Foods, Flavors, Per
sonal
Care, Nutraceutica
Medical Devices & ls.
Diagnostics
Agricultural
Specialty Chemicals
Sciences
Industrial Biotech
Biopharma (Enzymes, Biofuel
s)
Pharma Drug
Discovery & Devt.

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Significant Achievements
HR HR
Hiring:
Consulting: Advisory:
Hired over 500 R&D
professionals (mostly PhD’s)
over the past 3 years. Talent Pool Analysis
Executive Search Assignment HR Advisory Services
for India’s leading Biofuels for a Global Personal
group.
Care major: Talent Compensation &
Techno commercial roles – Mapping, C&B Benefits Benchmarking.
Appl.Specialists and Techno Benchmarking, Org
sales. Structure & Design.
Contract/Temp Staffing – in Talent Insights
Science.

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Value Proposition
Comprehensive Consulting firm catering to the Science R&D sector.
• Strong domain knowledge, combined with market insight and powerful network.
• Scope of Services range from Exec Search and Recruiting to People Intelligence,
Talent Mapping, HR Consulting & Advisory in the Science domain.
Credible Organization, with a strong delivery arm.
• Strong Team, comprising erstwhile scientists who have changed career track.
• Capability to handle roles across Research and Business (Techno commercial).
• Deep market engagement, supported by alliance with ABLE the nodal Industry
body in the Biotech sector.

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Selective List of Clients….

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We look forward to working with you!
Shyam Suryanarayanan
CEO
C-DRIVE HR Services Pvt.Ltd.
+91-9845094699
www.cdrivejobs.com