Savya leads the Global Engineering & Technology Centers (GETC) for Collins Aerospace in India, Poland, and Puerto Rico. GETC is home to over 4000 engineers. In his current role, Savya is part of the Enterprise Engineering organization and is responsible for the overall strategy of the global engineering sites and the support they provide to the Enterprise. Savya leads the engineering teams that provide support to all Collins Aerospace Strategic Business Units. His teams execute both regional and international commercial and military programs that support both internal and external customers globally.
Savya possesses global work experience in Aerospace and Defense corporations in the United States and India with the ability to lead cross-functional and geographically spread teams, where he has led the development of large-scale multi-disciplinary systems for mission-critical applications in Aerospace, Aviation, and other Engineering domains.
Savya started his career as a Systems Engineer at Lockheed Martin in the US and grew up the ranks to lead functional and program teams that supported the development and deployment of large-scale ATMs, and other mission-critical systems. Subsequently, he moved to India and joined Thales where he became the Director of engineering supporting platforms in Avionics, Cabin Systems, ATM, and IT. He joined Rockwell Collins in 2013 as the Director of the India Design Center supporting all business units of RC in multiple Avionics and Non-Avionics domains. He subsequently held the role of Senior Director of Asia Pacific Engineering, leading RC sites in India, Australia and Singapore.
Savya in his prior role was an Executive Director leading the GETC organization for India. Savya focuses on creating an environment that fosters innovation and capability expansion and is committed to adding increased value to the enterprise.
Savya holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Bangalore University, a master’s degree in industrial engineering from the University of Arizona, and a master’s degree in Technical Management from Johns Hopkins University.