Skand Saksena
Passionate about driving growth through innovation
- Role
- VP R & d, Germ Protection-personal Care and Lav Care at Reckitt
- Location
- Gurugram, HR, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Skand Saksena
I am a senior R&D leader with over 30 years of work experience across India, S.E. Asia, UK, and the US. Have held leadership positions in Beverages, Foods, Water/ Air purification, and Hygiene-Home care categories (5 Bn USD). I have led technical due diligence for acquisitions, have led integration of R&D teams across geographies, have set up state of the art R&D labs in Indonesia and India, and created some very successful product innovations during my journey so far. Enthusiastic practitioner of modeling and computer simulations and AI to shape disruptive innovations. I am a member of the Industry Interaction Advisory Committee of IIT Guwahati. Hold over 25 patents and authored over 11 publications in scientific journals. I am a US citizen with an Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card.Expertise Areas include:Development of innovation strategies for competitive growth People leadership with care and inspirationKnowledge creation to establish thought leadership and market leadershipInnovation portfolio development and managementDevelopment of Novel Processing Technologies New Product DevelopmentManufacturing Supply Chain
Experience
VP R & d, Germ Protection-personal Care and Lav Care
Mar 2026 — Present · Gurugram, IN
Education
University of Delaware
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering
1990 — 1995
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
B. Tech, Chemical Engineering
1986 — 1990
Skills
- Chemical Engineering
- Customer Insight
- Product Innovation
- Fmcg
- Leadership
- R&D
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Process Simulation
- Strategy
- Product Development
- Innovation Management
- Food
- Engineering
- Supply Chain
- Team Management
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