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Meet the founder and team leader shaping how Renew HR delivers HR transformation across the mid-market.

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Sabya Mitra.

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

"HR transformation lives or dies at the methodology layer. Our practice is built around that conviction."

The founder story

A career built on global
HR transformation.

Sabya Mitra is the Founder and CEO of Renew HR. Before founding the firm, he led the SuccessFactors practice for some of the world’s largest system integrators — IBM, NGA, Rapidigm, Fujitsu, Wipro, HCL, and Infosys — running complex global HR transformation projects across the US, Europe, South East Asia, India, the Middle East, China, and Latin America.

His expertise spans consulting, sales, practice development, and HR software deployment, anchored on an MBA in HR from XLRI — Xavier School of Management in India and deep technical fluency in SAP HCM, Ramco, and SuccessFactors. What separates Sabya in the consultancy market is the combination — academic depth in HR strategy plus operating fluency in the platforms that deliver it.

HR transformation lives or dies at the methodology layer — not the technology layer.

Away from the work, Sabya travels with his family and is a serious tennis player. Conversations welcome on either subject — and on whatever HR question you brought to the call.

The leadership profile

What Sabya brings,
in five dimensions.

Domain depth. Global range. Big-firm pedigree. Platform fluency. And the conviction that has delivered every customer in the practice today.

Dimension I
01 Academic foundation

Domain Depth.

MBA in HR from XLRI — Xavier School of Management, one of India's top HR business schools, reinforced by 30+ years of operational practice in consulting and enterprise software. Academic foundation in compensation, talent management, organisational design, and HR strategy — sharpened on the rough edges of real engagements where the theory had to meet operating constraints.

What it delivers

Strategic depth that makes methodology conversations land — not hand-wave.

Dimension II
02 Operational reach

Global Range.

Complex HR transformation engagements delivered across seven world regions — with the cultural, regulatory, and operational fluency to navigate each. The US, Europe, South East Asia, India, the Middle East, China, and Latin America — including cross-border M&A integrations and multi-country HRIS rollouts where local payroll, language, and labour-law nuances broke less-experienced delivery teams.

What it delivers

Range that means the engagement doesn't break when the org spans countries.

Dimension III
03 Industry pedigree

Big-firm pedigree.

SuccessFactors practice leader at seven multinational systems integrators before founding Renew HR: IBM, NGA, Rapidigm, Fujitsu, Wipro, HCL, and Infosys. Built and led SuccessFactors delivery teams with full P&L, sales, and practice-development accountability — learning the operating models of the largest SIs in the world, and the patterns that travelled well versus the patterns that didn't.

What it delivers

Big-firm methodology, delivered without the big-firm overhead.

Dimension IV
04 Technical fluency

Platform Fluency.

Hands-on technical fluency across the three HR platforms that have defined the mid-market over the last three decades: SAP HCM, Ramco, and SuccessFactors. Deep configuration knowledge across HCM and SuccessFactors modules — the kind of platform-level fluency that lets the principal sit in the design workshop and contribute, rather than just direct the team from one room over.

What it delivers

A founder who can actually go into the system.

Dimension V
05 Operating conviction

Practice Philosophy.

Senior-led delivery. SAP-certified methodology. Mid-market enterprise focus. No three-engagement junior consultants making your design decisions. Renew HR's operating model is purpose-built around senior consultants on the call from day one, productised SAP Partner Packages with predictable scope, and the methodology depth that makes implementations actually finish — on time, on budget, with adoption that holds.

What it delivers

The reason mid-market enterprises choose us.

Talk to Sabya directly

Want to discuss your HR strategy with the founder? That is the operating model — senior leadership on every meaningful conversation.

Senior, by default

Ready to talk to
the founder directly?

Every meaningful conversation at Renew HR starts on the senior team's desk — usually with Sabya himself. Pick a time, share the context, and we'll go from there. No junior-consultant funnel.

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