An HR professional and a business leader of standing for over 30 years, Santrupt has worked at Board level for close to two decades as Non-Executive Director and Executive Director in publicly listed companies, unlisted companies, and not for Profit Organizations both in India and overseas. He is a Director in several companies of the Aditya Birla Group including Aditya Birla Capital Ltd., and other professional bodies. He is the Chairperson of the Board of Governors of the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, and was an Independent Director on the Board of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd., a leading Government of India enterprise, for a period of 3 years. He is also on other professional bodies such as the Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC) U.S.A. He was also on the Board of the Xavier’s Institute of Management Bhubaneswar and the Worldwide ERC. He served as a member of the SHRM Certification Commission, USA, for a three-year term.