Saikat is a food and beverage specialist having 22 years of functional experience as a hotelier, entrepreneur and retailer. He had been engaged deeply in multiple product categories e.g. FMCG, Fresh Food, bakery, dairy, chilled and frozen in retail and driven new product development, packaging, Channel activation, developing new age Retail Innovations and Retail Sales. He has been conceptualizing, streamlining and revamping integrated fresh produce supply chain for future group for past 3 years and managed multiple brands and categories, developing them from inception. Currently in Future Consumer Limited, he is positioned as Chief – Small Format Stores and driving the ecosystem of all such stores e.g. Easy Day, Nilgiris, Heritage and Foodworld, to be future ready with its assortment and space planning, supply chain and digital integration of the offline / online universe of store/loyalty driven members. He is a graduate from Calcutta University and done his major in hospitality management from IAM, Calcutta, with Robert Gordon University, United Kingdom.