Saurabh Sanyal has been appointed as the Secretary General of PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI) with immediate effect. An engineer and a post graduate from IIT Madras has more than 33 years of experience and was serving as the Executive Director of the PHD Chamber since May 2013, a PHDCCI Press release issued here on Wednesday stated.
Before joining the corporate sector, he was with the armed forces as a colonel at Army headquarters in New Delhi. Sanyal participated in active service in Counter Insurgency Operations Rakshak in Jammu&Kashmir and Northeast, Ops Parakram, Ops Bajrang and Ops Rhino in the Northeast and was commended by the chief of the Army Staff twice in 1994 and 2005 for distinguished Service.
He has been planning and implementing projects on infrastructure at National and international levels in construction, Power/Energy sectors in Africa, SAARC countries and across India. He has been a keen communicator with the ability to relate to people across all hierarchical levels. Sanyal has been a member of the Indian Building Congress, Indian Road Congress and the Institution of Engineers.