Dr Srinivas Kandula is the Global Head of Human Resources at iGATE. He is an HR Generalist with over 18 years of hands-on experience in all the facets of Human Resource Management. Prior to joining iGATE he was responsible for the entire human resources function at Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd. His efforts largely contributed in Sasken being recognized as 'The Best Employer’ in Business Today- Mercer Survey and ‘Great Places to Work’ in Grow Talent-Business World Survey and in being figured in the top 20 companies of DQ-IDC Survey.

Prior to joining Sasken, he was Chief Manager of Corporate Human Resource at Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. Srinivas has done Master’s Degree in HR from Campus Faculty, Andhra University. He has also authored a Doctoral Thesis on 'Alignment Between Corporate Restructuring Strategies and Human Resource Intervention in BT-Top 500 Companies' from XLRI, Jamshedpur. He has published over 60 papers and eight books in the areas of Strategic Human Resource Development, Performance Management, Organization Development and Self- Development published by international publishers in multiple languages. He is a preferred speaker at HR forums of NASSCOM, CII, National HRD Network and lectures on special invitation at XLRI, MDI, ASCI and IIMs. His hobbies include writing, career empowerment of rural youth and watching movies.