Kaustubh Savatkar

• Leading a 22-person multidisciplinary team across ESG & Sustainability solutions, Strategy and Digital Marketing.
• Own end-to-end planning, execution and delivery of LCA, EPD, DPP, ESG reporting, carbon and water footprint, biodiversity assessment, CBAM, CDP, SBTi, BRSR, circular economy and EcoVadis engagements.
• Built and delivered a revenue portfolio of INR 1.5 crore (~EUR 135K) within the first six months.
• Drive enterprise-wide ESG strategy, market penetration, lead generation and client relationship management.
• Lead sustainability webinars and thought-leadership content (blogs, articles) to strengthen market presence.

• Served as engagement-in-charge for multiple CSRD/ESRS-compliant assurance engagements, owning client communication end-to-end.
• Led review, gap assessment and benchmarking for EU Deforestation Regulation projects covering 7 key materials across global supply chains, assessing GHG emissions, human rights and selected KPIs.
• Conducted pre-assurance activities – Double Materiality Assessment (DMA), Stakeholder engagement and Audit walkthroughs – for Wave 1 clients.
• Analysed material Impacts, Risks and Opportunities (IROs) to support business-development activities.

• Acted as engagement-in-charge for 6 CSRD/ESRS-compliant assurance engagements across EU clients.
• Delivered CSRD/ESRS gap assessment, scoping, and ESG assurance for a portfolio of EU-region clients.
• Escalated risks and issues to managing partners and senior leadership; supervised and coached junior team members.
• Applied CSRD, GRI, SASB and ISSB reporting frameworks alongside ISAE assurance standards to meet agreed quality, budget and timelines.

• Key contributions to the Government advisory project for “Majhi Vasundhara Abhiyan” (Mission My Earth 1.0) for the “Department of Environment and Climate Change, Government of Maharashtra”.
• Developing 5 key areas for ULBs to focus on in the upcoming assessment years (Water, Energy, Waste, Space and Mobility) to map their performance and year-on-year development.
• Core team member of a Project Management Unit (PMU) deployed at Mantralay, Mumbai, for the implementation of the Government of Maharashtra’s Flagship scheme, “Gaalmukt Dharan, Gaalyukt Shivar Yojana”, as a Climate change impact adaptation measure and to drought-proof Maharashtra.
• Handled multi-stakeholder engagement, inter-departmental communications, development of the monitoring, review & reporting mechanism, and on-field verification.